presence
Be Like Joe
“Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.” ― Oscar Wilde People complain about small towns turning into big cities and losing their close-knit feel. I suppose it can happen, but within every big city are small sections of people who help keep it feeling like a small town. If you want it, you will find […]
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Is Silence Really Golden?
They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it’s not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. ~Iain Pears When there is a mistake, a miscommunication, a misunderstanding, or a major blunder it is all too easy to put the blame on one someone when it really was a council, a […]
Read MoreIt’s Our World, Where Will We Stand?
“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”― Albert Einstein Evil people are a reality. There are evil people who are also someone’s children, parents and even grandparents. There are also good people who are someone’s […]
Read MoreExpiration Dates Keep Life and Ideas Fresh
It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas. ~Alan Alda When my friend’s husband died, I wanted to do something helpful and useful, so I cleaned out her refrigerator. We […]
Read MoreLiving Beyond Balance
“I don’t like the word ‘balance.’ To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family… as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration… of work, family, self, community.” Padmasree Warrior Balance is necessary in so many places, isn’t it? I’ve been […]
Read MoreMaking Space in Life for What Really Matters
“The quality of your commitments will determine the course for your life.” ~Ralph Marston The computer is running low on space, the email account is flashing a warning that my storage is almost full, and my smart phone is behaving more like antiquated technology than the latest and greatest it claims to be. Furniture that was his family’s, […]
Read MoreThe Difference Our Sight can Make
“If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life’s exciting variety, not something to fear.” ― Gene Roddenberry Space, the final frontier…so many afternoons began with […]
Read MoreWant a Better World? Raise Your Voice!
“ Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes—goodwill among men and peace on earth.” ~ Albert Einstein It’s hard to imagine what it would have been like to be Albert Einstein, to discover a theory that […]
Read MoreHave We Found Freedom?
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. ~Pearl S. Buck If you’ve walked everywhere all your life, you can’t appreciate the longing a person in a wheelchair must have to share in your freedom. If you’ve been able to […]
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Thoughts to Encourage
Nothing helps like a good nap…
Birds are Beautiful
A Dog is Faithful…
