The Resolute Woman

Author: resolutewoman

  • I could still be amazed

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    In his book The Frozen Leopard, Aaron Latham explains that it was a “rainy season” in his soul. Seeking a cure for his depression, Latham goes to Africa. There he watches a giraffe and writes, “I felt giddy and elated. Most of all, I was amazed to relearn an old lesson that I had all…

  • Notice the flowers

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    Sometimes—often?—what’s happening in the world is depressing. We all need to practice noticing the positive, says Rick Hanson in his book Hardwiring Happiness. When you achieve something or find yourself in a beautiful place, rest your mind on that experience. Dwell on it. As Henri Matisse once said, “There are always flowers for those who…

  • Where does it hurt?

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    “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.

  • Buy some spring flowers

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    I am buying spring flowers—in honor of the new season—probably daffodils if I can find them. My mother loved daffodils. And, in Texas, thanks to Lady Bird Johnson, I’m sure I will see some wildflowers—probably bluebonnets. As Sheryl Crow once said, “No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle…

  • Happy spring!

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    Wishing you a spring filled with hope. “The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day she created spring.”—Bernard Williams (edited)

  • Happy St. Patrick’s Day

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    Wishing you a happy day—and sending you an Irish blessing! “May your paths bloom with shamrocks, and your heart ring with songs, and the sky smile with bright sunshine all this happy day long.”

  • Recognize your rights

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    “Women, wake up; the tocsin of reason sounds throughout the universe; recognize your rights,” wrote Olympe de Gouges in her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen, which was published in 1791 in France. Two years after she wrote her declaration, de Gouges was arrested, condemned to death for her views and sent to…

  • Indolence?

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    I have spring fever—and it’s not spring yet. That’s why I like this quote from Bernard Williams. “I like the word ‘indolence.’ It makes my laziness seem classy.” –Joy

  • Anticipation

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    “’Well,’ said Winnie the Pooh, ‘what I like best,’ and then he had to stop and think. Because although eating honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called.”

  • The love of Christ

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    William Sloan Coffin once said: “It is not Scripture that creates hostility to homosexuality, but rather hostility to homosexuals that prompts some Christians to recite a few sentences from Paul and retain passages from an otherwise discarded Old Testament law code. In abolishing slavery and in ordaining women, we’ve gone beyond biblical literalism. “It’s time…