Author: resolutewoman
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Merry books for Christmas
Happy December! I am buying presents—online, of course. Lots of books for presents. I love to give people books for Christmas—even people who aren’t big readers. Maybe they will read the book I give them!? “Books are good company, in sad times and happy times,” E. B. White once said.
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Be grateful
“Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life,” Rumi once said.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
“Thank you is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding,” Alice Walker once said.
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Thankful for friends
This year, especially, I am thankful for my friends. I am thankful for my friends who call me on the phone, friends who send me text messages and my friend who shows up in my front yard for an in-person chat. As William James once said, “It is your friends who make your world.” –Joy
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Hope is light
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness,” Desmond Tutu once said.
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Every little girl
We hope our daughters will have a smoother path on their way to the offices of president and vice president, says Debra Adams Simmons, an executive editor of National Geographic. And, Simmons quotes Kamala Harris: “While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last because every little girl…
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We will continue to fight
“Dressed in suffrage white, Kamala Harris acknowledged ‘all the women who have worked to secure and protect the right to vote for over a century,’” writes Debra Adams Simmons, an executive editor of National Geographic, “’100 years ago with the 19th Amendment. Fifty-five years ago with the Voting Rights Act. And, now, in 2020, with…
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A joyful warrior
“My daily challenge to myself is to be part of the solution, to be a joyful warrior in the battle to come,” writes Kamala Harris in her book The Truths We Hold—An American Journey. “My challenge to you is to join that effort. To stand up for our ideals and values.”