personal growth
What’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 […]
Read MoreScabs, Scars, and Healing Wounds
“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.” ― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses It was a big hill, and flying down it on my sturdy blue bicycle without training wheels was blissful freedom. I was commanding the road without a care in the world. Starting at […]
Read MoreIf you don’t have a gavel, why do you judge?
“As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their “right” place.” ― Henri J.M. Nouwen What you think of […]
Read MoreLife is a people business…Make it a pleasure
Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer. ~ Dale Carnegie I have been dealing with people for a long time. It started probably fifty years ago, when I was born. There […]
Read MoreLetting Go of Anxieties and Casting Cares
“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems” ― Epictetus My imagination has been the root of more problems than have ever existed on their own. I’m not sure when it began, but I think that my female intuition figures in there somewhere, which has […]
Read MoreSeeing life more clearly, from a distance
“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.” ― Robertson Davies One of my favorite things to draw is the picture my art teacher taught me in elementary school. […]
Read MoreEmbracing Our Failures
“Sometimes it takes a wrong turn to get you to the right place.” ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass For his first four years, Albert Einstein didn’t speak. Einstein’s parents were concerned that he was mentally challenged. As a Nobel prize winner and a brilliant physicist, Einstein’s failures […]
Read MoreThe Gift of Independence
“The proverb warns that, ‘You should not bite the hand that feeds you.’ But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.” ― Thomas Stephen Szasz Perhaps, if my children had bitten my feeding hand long ago, I would have been able to offer them two important things: dignity and independence. I’ve learned a […]
Read MoreA Response of Compassion
Just short of a week, Christopher Smithburg was missing. People volunteered to join the hunt to find him, officers spent extra hours working to find him, and praying folk prayed for his safe return. On the Tuesday following his Thursday disappearance, he was found. And everyone rejoiced. Or did they? When I was probably seven […]
Read MoreIt’s Been So Long….
I found this, and I felt it was worth sharing. Apparently, there are lots of people with pain… “I know how this works….you think you are better than others, and so you allow them to fall to your superiority. It’s a stupid game I’ve played for most of my life–the trying to make every group […]
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Thoughts to Encourage
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