The Resolute Woman

Category: change

  • What if?

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    What if you had made a different choice? What if you had taken a different path? What if? In a review of the book Home is Not a Country, Nayantara Dutta writes that the book “felt most memorable because of how it explored this tension between our fascination with the what-ifs, and how they distract…

  • Take a trip

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    I’m escaping! I am tired of “vegetating in one little corner of the earth.” I am planning trips again—and I hope the crazy COVID numbers stay lower and this pandemic doesn’t interfere with my plans. I agree with Mark Twain, who once said: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our…

  • Trying to try

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    In her new book Good Enough, Kate Bowler writes, “Trying feels harder than it did before.” “We are trying,” she explains. “Well, we are trying to try….We will have to find enough momentum to reach for a life that is never perfect, but good enough.”

  • Comic and uplifting

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    Life is “by turns crushing and restorative, busy and boring, comic and uplifting,” writes Kathryn Schulz, author of Lost & Found: A Memoir.

  • Chaos or community?

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    “Where do we go from here? Chaos or community?” Martin Luther King once said. “Is this the darkness of the tomb or the darkness of the womb?” Valarie Kaur, founder of the Revolutionary Love Project, once said. I pick community and the light of new life—not chaos and darkness. I read both of these quotes…

  • Be positive

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    Sometimes, especially when confronted with a pandemic and politics, it’s easier to be negative. I’m trying harder to stay positive. As bella hooks once said, “Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.” –Joy

  • Find an adventure

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    This resolution may be a bit more difficult during a pandemic, but we can try. I’m going to do something different. Try something new. Make some changes?! As Louisa May Alcott once said, “I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.” –Joy

  • Tolerate fools gladly?!

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    Be kind.  Be kinder. That’s always a good resolution. And, here’s a timely resolution that I received on a Happy New Year 2022 postcard. “New Year’s resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided they get the jab.” The postcard, of course, is a kindly reminder that we all need to get vaccinated and boosted. –Joy

  • Speak up

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    One New Year’s resolution that I’ve made is to speak up—with a quiet, but forceful voice—and to speak up more often. As Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez advises, “They’ll tell you that you’re too loud, that you need to wait your turn and ask the right people for permission.” –Joy

  • New Year’s Resolutions!?

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    I haven’t written my New Year’s resolutions on paper yet, but there’s still time. I’m thinking about what to resolve to do during 2022. I’ll write down my resolutions as soon as all the Christmas decorations are stored safely and securely in the storage closet. As Elizabeth Warren once said, “Change is hard, and, if…