Author: resolutewoman
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Where are you from?
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…
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Speak up
“One thing I believe profoundly: We make our own history,” Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in 1962, shortly before her death. “It is not so much the powerful leaders that determine our destiny as the much more powerful influence of the combined voices of the people themselves.”
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The thing about books
“That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet,” the author Jhumpa Lahiri once said. This year, I have experienced a number of good trips—by car and by plane—and from reading some good books. –Joy
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A full life
“Woodstock has never seen a violin or a fire truck or a candy store,” Snoopy once said. “He’s never heard an opera or a symphony. He’s never seen a movie or a play. On the other hand, he’s seen the sky, the clouds, the ground, the sun, the rain, the moon, the stars, a cat…
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You don’t have to be skinny
According to a royal insider, Meghan Markle “wants to change the perception that you have to be skinny to be beautiful.” Of course! Of course! Of course! That is true. I learned that bit of news from a magazine while standing in the line at the grocery store. –Joy
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Applause for strong women
Did you watch Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast in the United States, do a double-double—two somersaults while simultaneously twisting twice in the air? Did you see her triple-double—flipping twice while twisting three times? Did you notice the wonderful muscles in her strong legs? Let’s applaud women with strong, healthy bodies!
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The fruit of violence?
“”Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence–but rather, that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to spoil it,” writes Ocean Vuong, the author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.
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Reach back and help someone
“Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted–folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them,” Michelle Obama once said.
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We’re all in this together
“Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart,” Michelle Obama once said. “Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because, in this country, it’s never been each person for himself or…
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Friends and sisters
“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.