The Resolute Woman

Category: courage

  • An inescapable network

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    One of my favorite Martin Luther King quotes is this one. “All life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality–tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” I heard someone repeat this quote last week on a TV news show. Doesn’t it ring true today…

  • My trip to North Korea

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    How am I doing? I have been escaping the pandemic by traveling to North Korea. Really! My friend Jane gave me two books about people who escaped the horrors of North Korea—The Girl with Seven Names and A River in Darkness. No matter how long this virus crisis lasts, I won’t run out of books.…

  • Read a book

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    What do people need more than anything now? Books, says author Emma Straub. “What are we all doing in our quarantines? We’re figuring out how to walk out the door without walking out the door. Reading a book is the best way to do that.” Straub talked about her new book All Adults Here in…

  • The best of times, the worst of times

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    “Keep the faith. You can make it across the moat,” Margaret Atwood writes in the May 4, 2020, issue of Time magazine. “You can enjoy this time, albeit at a pace somewhat less frenzied than when things were ‘normal.’ Many are questioning the pace—What was the hurry?—and deciding to live differently. “It’s the best of…

  • I will try again tomorrow

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    “One day at a time,” a friend told me yesterday. One stay-in-place day at a time, of course. I remembered a quote from Mary Ann Radmacher, the quote that I sent to my niece Emma when she was in the Peace Corps in Africa. “Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice…

  • When is eventually?

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    My refrain is “stay safe.” Recently I have added, “Stay safe and sane.” Eventually, I know this virus crisis will be over. How long is eventually? I wonder if this Albert Camus quote is too dramatic: “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” –Joy

  • A friendly universe

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    Albert Einstein once said that the single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe that the universe is friendly. I have made a choice. I still believe the universe, my world, is friendly—and that the future will be better, happier, friendlier than it is today. –Joy

  • Postpone it

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    There was supposed to be a shower for Rachel, my son Jay’s bride-to-be, today, March 28, a couples’ shower on April 25 and a wedding on May 30. Now all of the wedding celebrations have been canceled/postponed. Jay and Rachel will get married today—March 28, 2020—in Tulsa with Rachel’s parents attending, but standing six feet…

  • Illusions

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    “If we can somehow rid ourselves of illusions. The illusion that we are greater or lesser than we are. The illusion that we’re going to save the world. There are a lot of illusions that people walk around with,” Mr. Rogers once said. It seems as if I keep running into Mr. Rogers wherever I…

  • The standards have shifted

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    Debra Katz believed Christine Blasey Ford “had challenged outdated social norms and had only been able to do so because the #MeToo movement had given her a window, because standards had already shifted,” Jody Kantor and Megan Twohey write in their book She Said. “Things have qualitatively changed,” Katz said. ”The institutions have not changed.…