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Every Member of the Cast
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else – Charles Dickens As I went through the photos of a play I attended recently, I was reminded of something I’ve known for a long time: every member of the cast, the team, and the community matters. In the […]
Read MoreApologies Offered
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” ― Mahatma Gandhi Gandhi has left me feeling much less bothered by a mistake I made earlier today. Quite by accident, I published a draft I have been writing and you had the pleasure or displeasure of getting a first […]
Read MoreAllowing for (gasp) Imperfection
“Don’t pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it’d lose even its imperfection.” ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart Picture an ad for the latest life-changing medication, with a few key changes: Is a mismatched life getting you down? Does living with pet hair on […]
Read MoreDon’t be Mean
“She said, ‘I walked out of Auschwitz into life…I will never say anything that couldn’t stand as the last thing I ever say.” ~Benjamin Zander, Lessons from Auschwitz Today, I will speak good words. It’s that simple, after all, isn’t it? I just decide I want to speak kindness into others’ lives, and it […]
Read MoreLeadership and Accountability for Us All
“Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater.”― Mark Twain There is no law that says you must be an honest person, but there are laws that will punish you when you are dishonest in certain situations. The question I come away with after seeing Twain’s quote, though, is Why do people need […]
Read MorePutting off until tomorrow….
“I’ll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.” ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind It still amazes me that with my frequent inability to focus, I was able to read Mitchell’s Gone with the […]
Read MoreAnd She Laughed…
“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”― Victor Hugo When I was in college, my grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. I was taking a health class at the time, and I chose to write a paper about the disease for one of our assignments in hopes of finding some piece of information […]
Read MoreFollowing the Stepping Stones
“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself.” ~Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass Our neighbors laid a beautiful stone path in their back yard not long ago, and I love to look at it when I am standing in my own yard, which is scattered with […]
Read MoreBe a Part of the Continent, a Part of the Main
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” John Donne, No Man Is An Island – Meditation XVII The young woman struggled with the sign that had fallen. She had a broom in one hand and a portion of the sign in […]
Read MoreLonely in a Crowd
“Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert …” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.” ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince There was a beautiful wooded area behind my house when I was a little girl. Beyond the woods was a […]
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