It Takes a Team to find Success
It Takes a Team to find Success
“Individual commitment to a group effort – that’s what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” Vince Lombardi I don’t know that I’ve ever met anyone who has made it through life completely alone. Even though a country might have one leader, he does not rule alone. A company has […]
Read MoreBreaking Free from The Rumor Mill
“The report of my death is greatly exaggerated.” Mark Twain Twain’s infamous quote came in a letter he wrote in May 1897. His cousin had been gravely ill. People must have confused the two men, and rumors began that Twain was dying and then was dead. Rumors are untruths, or sometimes partial truths, that are […]
Read MoreThe Gifts Beneath the Surface
“The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond price and leaves me blessed and in debt.” ― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten On my 30th birthday, a friend gave me a unique gift. It […]
Read MoreGot Conflict? Bring it on!
“All of your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony and you will gain peace”. Rumi Waiting at the Lion’s Club, I would stand with my mother as the line wound around until it was her turn to vote. I remember the curtain that hid us from the rest of the voters […]
Read MoreThe Beauty of a Wrinkle
“Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.” ― Clarence Day Jr. Putting on eye shadow has never been a difficult task for me. Well, it wasn’t difficult until about a year ago […]
Read MoreTraditions Can Be Treasures
“The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it” ― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer “Where’s the cranberry sauce? We can’t have turkey without cranberry sauce!” It was the first Thanksgiving my mother had lived in her new home near my family, […]
Read MoreMore of Everything
“I did not like this feeling of having feelings.” ― Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter “You are such a cry baby!” “You are such a sensitive person.” “You always take everything to heart.” The labels have been bestowed upon me as if they are bad things. For most of my life, I have […]
Read MoreThe Best Part of Life
“The best portion of a good man’s life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.” ― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads It struck suddenly. An active young mother fell ill to a sickness that had no name. She aged many years in the first week after losing much feeling on her left […]
Read MoreFear Not
“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Twelve steps or three leaps. That’s how […]
Read MoreWhat’s Right and What’s Wrong?
“There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do. It’s all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain’t nice, but that’s as far as any man got a right to say.”― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath Hitting another person […]
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Thoughts to Encourage
Nothing helps like a good nap…
Birds are Beautiful
A Dog is Faithful…
