Urgent Things
“Our greatest danger in life is in permitting the urgent things to crowd out the important.” – Charles E. Hummel
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The Time and Place for Happiness
“The Time to be Happy is NOW. The Place to be Happy is HERE.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
Continue reading →Imagination Can Carry Us
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.” – Carl Sagan
Continue reading →The Wait Poem
By Russell Kelfer Desperately, helplessly, longingly, I cried; Quietly, patiently, lovingly, God replied. I pled and I wept for a clue to my fate . . . And the Master so gently said, “Wait.” “Wait? You say wait?” my indignant … Continue reading →
That Which I Cannot Do
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” – Pablo Picaso
Continue reading →I’m the Boss
My boss was complaining in a staff meeting the other day that he wasn’t getting any respect. Later that morning he went out and got a small sign that read, “I’m the Boss.” He then taped it to his office … Continue reading →
Difficult Roads
“Difficult roads can lead to beautiful destinations.”
Continue reading →Words
We sometimes take English for granted, but if we examine its paradoxes we find that quicksand takes you down slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. There is no … Continue reading →
Be a Hope-Giving Force
“Strive to be uncynical, to be a hope-giving force, to be a steward of substance.” – Maria Popova
Continue reading →Lawn Work
“Winterize your lawn,” the big sign outside the garden store commanded. I’ve fed it, watered it, mowed it, raked it and watched a lot of it die anyway. Now I’m supposed to winterize it? I hope it’s too late. Grass … Continue reading →