Category: Learning
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Quote of the Week…
“The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” Christopher McCandless, 1968 – 1992
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Quote of the Week…
“The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.” Gloria Steinem, 1934 -2026
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Quote of the Week…
“As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.” Mel Brooks, 1926 – Happy Birthday to this comedic genius who turned 100 on Sunday!
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Quote of the Week…
“Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.” Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929 – 1968
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Quote of the Week…
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” Zig Ziglar, 1926 – 2012
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It’s May!…
Change and Excitement is in the Air May just might be my favorite month. It holds hands with April showers and June sunshine for thirty-one days of bright green flowery beauty. Maybe the real reason I love May is because it is the month I was born (keeping my mom from attending a Mother’s Day…
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Quote of the Week…
“Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.” Maya Angelou, 1928 – 2014
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Friday…
I recently read Friday, by Michel Tournier, translated from French by Norman Denny. It is a retelling of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, in part seen through the lens of Friday. It was a fun read, at times disastrous or shocking yet leaning to the philosophical. According to Tournier, Crusoe was desperate for a way to log…
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Big, Round Hours…
I’m rereading Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott. It’s primarily about writing and how to establish good practices, but it’s also about how to live life. She says perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor. Even the enemy of the people. Lamott reminds us that clutter and mess and imperfection are signs that life is being lived.…
