The Resolute Woman

Author: resolutewoman

  • Only the truth

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    President Biden visited Tulsa recently on the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race riot. “Some injustices are so heinous, so horrific, so grievous, they cannot be buried, no matter how hard people try,” he said. “Only with truth can come healing….We can’t just choose what we want to know…. I come here to help fill…

  • A flood of kisses

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    Rebekah Taussig, writing in the May 24/May 31 issue of Time magazine, says that she has a tradition of giving her partner Micah and her son Otto a flood of kisses every morning when they leave the house. “I hope we are teaching Otto to be brave and also kind,” she writes, “to take good…

  • Be brave

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    Rebekah Taussig wonders how to teach her son to be true to himself. In the May 24/May 31 issue of Time magazine, she writes, “How do I teach him to be brave? To hold on to himself when the opinions of others are loud and everywhere.”

  • You must do something

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    John Lewis encouraged us to make “good trouble.” It’s good advice to remember this Memorial Day weekend, which also marks the 100th year since the Tulsa race riot. “You must do something. Democracy is not a state. It is an act, and each generation must do its part,” Lewis said.

  • Don’t whinge

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    I just learned a new word. The word is “whinge.” If you whinge, you complain about unimportant things all the time. I’m am going to try to avoid being a whinger! –Joy

  • Remember all people

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    “Remember you are all people and all people are you,” writes poet laureate Joy Harjo, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation. “Remember you are this universe and this universe is you. “Remember all is in motion, is growing, is you.”

  • Expect a surprise

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    “Each day holds a surprise,” the priest and writer Henri Nouwen once said. “But, only if we expect it can we see, hear or feel it when it comes to us. “Let’s not be afraid to receive each day’s surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy. It will open a new…

  • Love is stronger

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    “Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain,” the priest and writer Henri Nouwen once said. ”The greatest pain comes from leaving. When the child leaves home, when the husband or wife leaves…

  • Everything will be okay

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    This is an interesting quote to think about!? John Lennon once said, “Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.”

  • Be yourself

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    One of my favorite quotes—which I found on a bumper sticker—is: “Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” I just found another, similar quote that I like. I have edited it, changing all of the “his” words to “her.” “It is the fate of every human being to be a unique individual, to find her…