Sunday Inspiration: Grief
“Grief is like the wake behind a boat. It starts out as a huge wave that follows close behind you and is big enough to swamp and drown you if you suddenly stop moving forward. But if you do keep moving, the big wake will eventually dissipate. And after a long time, the waters of…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Choosing Curiosity
“The cycle of degenerating discourse won’t stop if we insist that people we disagree with must first behave the way we want them to … The cycle stops when we recognize our responsibility to treat each other with the dignity with which we expect to be met. It stops when we choose to replace condemnation…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: The Same God
“We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water. So do religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew.…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: A Friend
“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.” ~Unknown (from Charter for Compassion) I’ve probably told you that we’re moving into a wonderful retirement community in Asheville (home of the Goddesses) in a few weeks. Right…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: The Most Beautiful People
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Our human compassion
“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other, not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learned how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” ~Nelson Mandela
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: How and Whom You Love
“It matters not who you love, where you love, when you love, or how you love. It matters only that you love.” ~John Lennon We had the delightful experience of seeing a Beatles tribute band Rain, this past week in the Chautauqua Institution amphitheater. I was reminded, revisiting the wonderful songs of a band I’ve…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: The Greatest Gift
“The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.” ― Elizabeth Hardwick
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Hate and Pain
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. -James Baldwin
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: The Great Stories
“It’s like the great stories, Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad has happened? But in the…
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