For a long time I wondered why I felt like bowing when people showed their appreciation for the work that I’ve been privileged to do. What I’ve come to understand is that we who bow are probably–whether we know it or not–acknowledging the presence of the eternal: we’re bowing to the eternal in our neighbor. …
A thought
I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it–I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my …
Beauty
You are beautiful….when you let friends have their space, when you believe, when you laugh, or are moved to tears, when you just let it roll off your back, when you talk about your dreams, when you help a turtle across the road, when you try to do the right thing even when it comes …
A Thought
Don’t try to win over the haters. You’re not the jackass whisperer. Scott Stratten, UnMarketing: Stop Marketing, Start Engaging This thought can bring freedom from unrealistic pressure. Think about it.
A Thought
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. Dr. Suess Are these not a wonderful bunch of fun looking women?? I was at a rather fancy-shmancy restaurant with a good friend last summer on Victoria Island. The next table over sat this …
A thought
There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will, all of your life, spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls. Howard …
A Thought
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and it then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not …
A Thought
“My lifetime achievement in my opinion is really the slow acquisition of the ability to be vulnerable and needy, and to be able to accept love as well as give.” William Shatner, TV and movie actor on accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Banff World Television Festival, June 2010. Shatner went on to add: …
A Thought
“When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze; and when two people understand each other in their inmost hearts, their words are sweet and strong like the fragrance of orchids”. I Ching
A Thought
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don’t give up. Anne Lamott