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Read more: Patience“Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience,” Emerson once said. This is one of my favorite quotes. Why am I still in a…
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Read more: The light“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light,” Theodore Roethke once said. It’s the end of June, and I look for bright flowers when…
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Read more: Strength from the morning“Take the breath of the new dawn and make it part of you. It will give you strength.” That’s a quote from the Hopi. I…
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Read more: Set the world on fire“Be who you were created to be and you will set the world on fire,” St. Catherine of Siena once said.
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Read more: Get started“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing,” Frederick Douglass once said. I just finished David Blight’s long book Frederick Douglass—Prophet…
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Read more: DreamsIn honor of Juneteenth, I offer one of my favorite poems by Langston Hughes. Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a…
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Read more: Power and change“Power concedes nothing without a demand,” Frederick Douglass once said. “It never did and it never will.” I just finished David Blight’s long book Frederick…
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Read more: Struggle and progress“If there is no struggle, there is no progress,” Frederick Douglass once said. I just finished David Blight’s long book Frederick Douglass—Prophet of Freedom about…
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Read more: Sunshine and flowersNow when I go for my morning walk, I look for the flowers blooming red, yellow and purple in my neighbors’ yards. The flowers remind…
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Read more: Hope and confidence“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence,” Helen Keller once said.