Run Run Away

“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It’s like your shadow. It follows you everywhere. -Komura”― Haruki Murakami, After the Quake ♦♦♦ The little boy wasn’t happy with things at home. At nine years of age, his frustration with the rules in his house, the expectations of his keeping a clean […]

A Response of Compassion

April 2, 2014 | suezquesteen | Klaas • Runaway • Smithburg | kindness • parenting • personal growth • runaway | 13 Comments

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 […]

Thoughts to Encourage

Joy is the will which labors, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.~ William Butler Yeats

Whether you think you can or think you can’t you’re right. - Henry Ford

The best way out is always through. ~ Robert Frost

Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. ~ Theodore N. Vail

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. ~ Oliver Goldsmith

You must be the change you want to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi

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Run Run Away

Run Run Away

A Response of Compassion

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Nothing helps like a good nap…

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