Author: resolutewoman
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Beauty everywhere
Some of the trees in my neighborhood are turning bright red! “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere,” Vincent Van Gogh once said. –Joy
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Be yourself?
To be yourself, you have to know yourself. In Brit Bennett’s book The Vanishing Half, Stella asks her teenage daughter Kennedy: “Why can’t you just be yourself?” “Maybe I don’t know who that is,” Kennedy answers. Stella understood, Brit Bennett writes. “That was the thrill of youth, the idea that you could be anyone.”
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Stuck?
Can you become a different person? Can you change who you are? Brit Bennett’s book The Vanishing Half, is about identity. Jude, one of the characters, says, “She had always known that it was possible to be two different people in one lifetime, or maybe it was only possible for some. Maybe others were just…
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Finding yourself?
How do you find yourself? How do you know who the best you is? Brit Bennett’s book The Vanishing Half, is about identity. One of the characters Stella, the twin who is born Black, but passes into the white world, thinks: “You didn’t just find a self out there waiting—you had to make one. You…
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Who is the best you?
Douglas Abrams and Jane Goodall have a new book—The Book of Hope. In the book Abrams, who is Jewish, remembers a famous Jewish story—a very interesting story for all of us who are still trying to figure out who we are and who we used to be and who we want to be tomorrow. Rabbi…
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Greta’s friends
In an interview with The Guardian, Greta Thonberg, the climate activist, says that she didn’t have very many friends when she began protesting. She explained that she was “an oversensitive child with autism.” Today, being part of the climate movement community has made her very happy, Thonberg adds. “I really see the value of friendship.…
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The ideal
We have to have ideals. We have to believe that we can do better. “It’s useful to have a North Star and the belief in the possibility that we can still deliver on an ideal like all men are created equal, or all people are created equal,” says President Obama in an interview for his…
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Obama optimism
Yes, people can change. Our optimism has to be extended to people — even, or perhaps especially, to those we don’t agree with, said President Obama in an interview about his new book . “Sometimes we put (other people) in a box and we assume that they’re never going to change, and I reject that,”…
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Hope and confidence
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement,” Hellen Keller once said. “Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” We watched a PBS special about Helen Keller last week—and learned that she was brilliant and she accomplished so much. But, she was not perfect. She was complicated. She was a most interesting person. –Joy
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A little bit of change
“I do not like the world as it is; so, I am trying to make it a little more as I want it,” Helen Keller once said. We watched a PBS special about Helen Keller last week—and learned that she was brilliant and she accomplished so much. But, she was not perfect. She was complicated.…