Valentine’s Day is for celebrating the special person you love—and also all of the special people you love—family and friends. That’s why I like Galantine’s Day—celebrating women friends. “Friends are the siblings God didn’t give you,” someone once said. –Joy
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Just the way you are
by resolutewoman on January 28, 2020 in advice, families, friends, love, Uncategorized
“I like you just the way you are,” Mr. Rogers once said. That is my favorite Mr. Rogers quote—one of many on my new Mr. Rogers mug. A photo of Mr. Rogers in his dark coat is on the mug. However, when I add hot tea, his dark coat magically turns into a yellow sweater! […]
Getting ready to be thankful
by resolutewoman on November 26, 2019 in families, holidays, thankfulness, Uncategorized
We have been working extra hard to get ready for Thanksgiving this year. We have been doing our best to make our house look presentable because our son Jay is bringing home his good friend Rachel for the holiday. We even bought a new garbage can because our old garbage no longer opened automatically when […]
Where are you from?
by resolutewoman on September 5, 2019 in families, love
I heard part of George Ella Lyon’s poem “Where I’m From” on NPR on August 19: I am from clothespins, from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride. I am from the dirt under the back porch. (Black, glistening it tasted like beets.) I am from the forsythia bush, the Dutch elm whose long gone limbs I remember as […]
Friends and sisters
by resolutewoman on August 15, 2019 in families, friends, resolute-women
“A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves–a special kind of double,” Toni Morrison once said. Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, “a giant of modern literature,” died August 5, 2019.
Ubuntu
by resolutewoman on June 11, 2019 in families, friends
The word ubuntu is an African word that means: “I am because of who we are together.” I discovered the word in a University of New Mexico publication about family development. –Joy
We are loving creatures
by resolutewoman on May 16, 2019 in families, friends, love
“The heart is that piece of us that longs for fusion with others,” writes David Brooks in his new book. “We are not primarily thinking creatures; we are primarily loving and desiring creatures. We are defined by what we desire. We become what we love.” Brooks’ new book is The Second Mountain—The Quest for a […]
How thick and how deep
by resolutewoman on May 14, 2019 in families, friends
“As adults,” says David Brooks in his new book The Second Mountain—The Quest for a Moral Life, “we measure our lives by the quality of our relationships and the quality of our service to those relationships. Life is a qualitative endeavor, not a quantitative one. It’s not how many, but how thick and how deep.”
Where is the madness?
by resolutewoman on February 9, 2019 in families, resolute-women
Tara Westover wrote the words “everywhere—consciously, compulsively” as she tried to come to terms with her family. “When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?” she wrote. Westover talks about her family in her amazing book Educated. She grew up in a survivalist family in Idaho. Even though she had never seen a […]
An inescapable network of mutuality
by resolutewoman on January 22, 2019 in families, friends, peace
“In a real sense, all life is interrelated. All men (and women) are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly,” Martin Luther King once said. We found this quote in Martin Luther King’s book A Gift of Love.
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