The Resolute Woman

Category: beauty

  • Praise for the morning!

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    I have always loved the words to this song since I first heard Cat Stevens sing them decades ago, and I was delighted to find the poem “Morning Has Broken” by Eleanor Farjean. Morning has broken like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken like the first bird. Praise for the singing! Praise for the morning!….…

  • Thank you for green trees

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    Now when I take my morning walk, I see green buds on the trees and bright flowers in the lawns. In his poem “This Amazing Day,” e.e. cummings says thank you for this beauty. i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream…

  • Slow down!

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    I was too busy, hurrying, one day last week, trying to accomplish lots of things, marking items off my to-do list, when I remembered a lovely poem. I found it, and it inspired me to slow down a bit. I will not hurry through this day! Lord, I will listen by the way To humming…

  • Happy spring!

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    Spring is arriving this weekend—with the promise of warmer weather and lots of flowers. The poet Charles Anthony Silvestri wrote: Flowers bloom with showers falling, All the world reveals its yearning; Nature sings—I hear her calling; Round and round the seasons turning. I recently heard the Children’s Chorus of Greater Dallas Women’s Youth Chorus sing…

  • The land of delight

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    When she was a girl, she lived in a world of books and imagination, Gloria Steinem explained to Maria Shriver in an Interview Magazine article, which I found online. Where does she live now? “I live in the land of delight—of just walking in the street, and the sun is shining,” Steinem said. –Joy

  • Try awe and wonder

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    Go to an art museum and look at the paintings, or listen to classical music. Feelings of awe and wonder are associated with lower levels of pro-inflammatory proteins that can stress the immune system. That’s why artistic masterpieces can trigger positive emotions that help prevent heart disease and depression, concluded researchers at the University of…

  • I am strong

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    I heard this quote on National Public Radio, but I didn’t catch who said it. The person was a woman—an actress?—who said that, when she looks in the mirror, she no longer looks 25—but it’s okay. “I am strong, and my body works,” this woman stressed. –Joy

  • Shifting gears

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    Sometimes, when you’ve been busy getting ready for a vacation, it’s difficult to slow down. This summer, when I was in Eureka Springs in a cabin on a hill, it took me two days to change my pace. But, one afternoon, I sat on the porch with a good book and enjoyed a cool breeze—and…

  • A performance or a march?

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    Elsie “was so beautiful….Chinese. Ageless. Paris thrown in. Perfect French. Poise….” For Elsie, “life was a performance. “For Betty, it was a tremendous march. A brave and glorious and, well, comical, sometimes endurance. All governed by love.” A performance or a march? Which best describes your life? Elsie and Betty are two of the characters…

  • Phenomenal Woman

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    Maya Angelou was a Resolute Woman—and a Phenomenal Woman, and I have always liked her poem “Phenomenal Woman.” Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size. But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of…