“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” ~Anne Lamott. For the next little bit I'm going to take a break and slow down the pace. I need to concentrate on wrapping up some big projects. So for awhile, I've decided to post once a week instead of twice until I feel I've got things in hand. I'll see you on Thursday! Looking for a program...
“We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.”~ GK Chesterton Sure. Join the crowd. Give me a bad time about the huge number of unread emails on my iPhone. My family does. But I get so much good stuff! What if the next life-changing idea came from one of them? What would happen if I delete one that turns out to be...
"We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop."~Paulo Coelho If I was a car part, without a doubt I'd be a battery. What would you be? Steering wheel? Brakes? Good! We need 'em! I've often use a car as an analogy for a team when I'm speaking. A car needs several key parts and...
“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it”~Confucious Our home is in the Midwest. The wide Platte River braids its way placidly through this part of the country. The river itself is fascinating and unique. There is only one other like it on the entire planet. Countless wagons full of wide-eyed pioneers journeyed across these open plains as our nation expanded westward. They knew this...
“Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air.”~Ralph Waldo Emerson A very long time ago on a summer morning at the crack of dawn, I mounted my old blue Schwinn bike looking for adventure. I must have looked like a street urchin. I never stopped to brush my hair or give a thought to what clothes I threw on. Mostly I favored crop...
“I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.”~ Andy Bernard My mom had delicious sense of humor and latched on to witty sayings she'd hear. As I grow older, I'm beginning to see this with new eyes. She adopted some of them and used them often enough we weren't sure which ones were original to her...
(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...