On the 12th day of the Eurocentrically imposed midwinter festival, my potential-acquaintance gave to me, TWELVE males reclaiming their inner warrior through ritual drumming, ELEVEN pipers piping (plus the 18-member pit orchestra made up of members in good standing of … Continue reading →
“We often think that vulnerability is a kind of weakness, but there’s a kind of vulnerability that is actually strength and presence.” – Ram Dass
Continue reading →“In its passivity and resignation, cynicism is a hardening, a calcification of the soul. Hope is a stretching of its ligaments, a limber reach for something greater.” – Maria Popova
Continue reading →“During a time of crisis, leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence; seeing what you do and how you react. If you are in control; they are in control.” – Tom Landry
Continue reading →“The time God allows us is always enough for the work He allots us.”
Continue reading →“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Continue reading →“Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.” – Washington Irving
Continue reading →“Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn’t know possible.” – Tia Walker
Continue reading →One day a State Trooper was pulling off an expressway near Chicago. When he turned onto the street at the end of the ramp, he noticed someone at a chicken place getting into his car. The driver placed the bucket … Continue reading →
“It has long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” – Elinor Smith
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