"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on" ~ Robert Frost God must chuckle about us, I'm sure he does. Quite often in fact. And why not? We give him an endless supply of comic material. Besides that, He loves us the way we love our kids. He thinks we're all adorable. Think about it. From the moment we're born, we're in a...
“We need to learn to enjoy the moment and cherish the little things. It is all about you being happy, content and at peace with oneself.” ~ Sofie Pedersen Sorry about Friday. I didn't post after all. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised or offended if you didn't even notice. No one really slows down for Thanksgiving anymore and I couldn't carve out the time, either....
“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” ~ Lao Tzu I was nearly robbed today. It's Thanksgiving week no less and a thief tried to sneak in my back door. He nearly managed to pull it off but I recognized him right away. It was that old varmint Discontent and he almost got...
“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”~ J.R.R. Tolkien Our second daughter teaches third grade. Her specialty is language, writing, and all basic communication skills. She teaches things like alliteration and onomatopoeia right along with the usual synonyms, antonyms, similes and metaphors. Stuff we learned in college, but her class is made up of eight and nine-year-olds! It's utterly amazing to...
“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”~ John Lubbock It's really easy to get discouraged. Life can feel like a losing game of chutes and ladders. All downhill slides and no rungs headed back up. Other times, our world can seem like one big round of whack-a-mole and it sure appears that the moles are winning. We've all had a turn like that. Just...
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”~ Jim Rohn Well, it happened again. Another book title popped up to tantalize me. Somewhere in my email, a snippet about it appeared and I knew I would enjoy it. So, I ordered it, of course. I bought a used copy like I always do and it turns out this one is autographed! Lucky...
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” ~ John Wooden People with impeccable character and integrity fascinate us. Folks who have it become epic, larger-than-life and timeless. Maybe it's because it's become so rare. Perhaps it's the way a shiny veneer peels off, revealing major flaws beneath the...
"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."~John Ruskin Maybe it's the same where you live. But in Nebraska, there's a saying, "If you don't like the weather, stick around a few minutes, it'll change." Mark Twain has been credited with the quote but who knows....
(A three-minute read) “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”~ Max Planck I love walking through the hallways of an elementary school and checking out the artwork. Self-portraits always make me smile. And then there are the wonderful, clumsy first pictures of buildings and boxes with smudgy lines and erasures. Think back to learning perspective. Remember when you found...
(A three-minute read)"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."~Margaret Mead We've all heard a person described as "one-of-a-kind." Or, someone might say, "they broke the mold when they made her." The truth is that could be said about every single one of us! The number of possible mathematical combinations of traits and characteristics in the DNA cocktail is infinite. That means it...