Jim Hinton, CEO of Baylor Scott & White, the largest nonprofit health system in Texas, reminded us that our health is “not a spectator sport,” in an interview in the May 27, 2020, issue of the Dallas Morning News. “So, when people are out without their masks on, interacting closely with another, it’s a little […]
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Irritated?
by resolutewoman on May 26, 2020 in advice, families, kindness, stress, Uncategorized
I’ll admit it. The person I am staying-in-place with sometimes irritates me. However, I smiled, when a friend reminded me: “The person irritating you may be the person you are irritating.” –Joy
Kindness
by resolutewoman on April 23, 2020 in families, friends, kindness
A friend calls to see how I am doing. A stranger gives me a warm smile when I take my afternoon walk. My husband shares a joke he has just read while we fix dinner together. These acts of kindness lift my spirit, and I am reminded of Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem “Kindness.” Before you […]
Be kind
by resolutewoman on March 21, 2020 in families, kindness, Uncategorized
My husband Jerry reminds me that we are not quarantined. We just are practicing social distancing. We are not going anywhere or having contact with anyone until there is no danger from the coronavirus.. It’s the two of us and our dog Jack together in our house—for who knows how long. One day a week […]
Small kindnesses
by resolutewoman on November 5, 2019 in book, friends, kindness
While she was in the White House, Michelle Obama invited 12 or so of her closest friends to spend the weekend with her at Camp David every two or three months. “Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built on a thousand small kindnesses….swapped back and forth and over again,” Obama wrote […]
Overwhelm the world
by resolutewoman on October 22, 2019 in change, courage, kindness
“Do your little bits of good where you are. It’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world,” Desmond Tutu once said.
Humankind
by resolutewoman on October 8, 2019 in kindness
Recently, I saw my favorite bumper sticker on a car in a parking lot: “Humankind. Be both.” –Joy
I shall help you
by resolutewoman on June 8, 2019 in courage, friends, kindness
I found this quote while I was in New Mexico recently. I don’t remember where. But, it seems very appropriate to our world today. “One doesn’t ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer. This is enough for me. You belong to me, and […]
Where does it hurt?
by resolutewoman on March 23, 2019 in kindness, love, Uncategorized
“later that night i held an atlas in my lap ran my fingers across the whole world and whispered where does it hurt? it answered everywhere everywhere everywhere” –Warsan Shire We found this poem in an email message from Charter for Compassion.
In the kindness way
by resolutewoman on June 26, 2018 in kindness
What the world needs is a lot more kindness. I found this quote recently in a restaurant. “Do the kindness things in the kindness way.” –Joy
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