Hashtag My Favorite Meds
Hashtag My Favorite Meds
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” ~Seneca Palm open in the photo, the person showed several different pills, many different colors. It was the words beneath the photo that caught my attention. The individual wrote how much she didn’t want to take those pills, but how taking the pills allowed her to […]
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Teach Me, Shape Me
When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice. ~Cecilia Bartoli Opening the brown paper bag when I left the school, I […]
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Love Nature More
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. ~Lord Byron Cracking the window, the smell washed over me. It wasn’t an offensive scent, as a […]
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The Power of Norms and Stigma
“Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love Taken aback by the kind gesture of the employee, the manager had warm tears welling up in his otherwise icy eyes. Was it possible, she thought, that he was human? Zeus was written to have cried tears of blood, […]
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To be a Spoke
Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all. ~ Deborah Day It was a used Pacific bike, and for $10, it was the perfect answer to his getting to his new job. The people at his […]
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Charity begins…with you
“There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.” ― Theodore Roosevelt Long before the Democrats and Republicans of today’s society in the United States (and the […]
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Letting Go to Look Ahead
“There are far better things ahead than any we may leave behind.” ~C.S. Lewis Rose told Jack that she would never let go of his hand in Titanic, Randall loosens his glove to keep Fisher from having to hold on to him in The Guardian, and Tyler Durden brings home a most difficult idea of […]
Read MoreAbout that Offense
“The best defense is a good offense.” ~an old adage *** But what about… But did you… the questions were flying at him. It was like a basketball game. The other team (or in this case, his boss) might not have had more good plays, but they were able to stop the drive to the […]
Read MoreTo Be a Star
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet and natural philosopher (1749-1832) “You are hurting my business giving away those photographs,” the words stung as I continued snapping the shutter on my camera. The […]
Read MoreSort the Pieces to Solve the Puzzle
“The world is a puzzle, and we cannot solve it alone.” ― Lemony Snicket There were 1,000 pieces inside the box, and I watched with fascination as my friend and her daughter took the wheel to transform the pieces into the picture on the front of the box. Maybe their brains just process what’s in front […]
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Thoughts to Encourage
Nothing helps like a good nap…
Birds are Beautiful
A Dog is Faithful…
