The Resolute Woman

Category: families

  • Pay attention

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    “Attentiveness is the heart’s stillness, unbroken by any thought,” Hesychios of Sinai once said. I found this quote in Into the Silent Land by Martin Laird. –Joy

  • I fell

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    Yikes! I fell. No broken bones. Probably nerve damage. I am walking slowly with some pain. My husband Jerry has been a very attentive nurse, and I have received lots of comforting messages from friends. I have always loved this quote from Winnie the Pooh. “Friendship is a comforting thing to have.” –Joy

  • Traveling in West Texas

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    I recently attended the Hart Family Reunion in Big Spring, Texas. Some people prefer trees and lots of green. I like trees and green, too, but I also love the vastness of the land and sky in West Texas. As Aristotle once said, “In all things of nature, there is something marvelous.” –Joy

  • To make sense of the world

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    “The interconnectedness of the seemingly unrelated is how we make sense of the world,” write Einar and Jamex de la Torre in the words that accompany their art exhibit at the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa.

  • Together from afar

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    Were they close when they were far apart? More accurately, they were far apart when they were together. In Hernan Diaz’ book Trust, the character Helen writes in her journal, “we learned to be together from afar.”

  • Helping one another

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    When do we help someone else? When it’s easy? When it requires some sacrifice on our part? When it would be easier not to help? In Claire Keegan’s book Small Things Like These, the main character is confronted with a difficult decision.  Should he help if helping might carry negative consequences for him and his…

  • Silence

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    ”Many’s the man (or woman) lost much just because he (or she) missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing,” says Claire Keegan, author of Small Things Like These.

  • Small things and love

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    Reading Claire Keegan’s book Small Things Like These reminded me of a quote from Mother Teresa—one of my favorite quotes. “ Not all of us can do great things. But, we can do small things with great love.” –Joy

  • Knowing yourself

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    “We can never fully know another person, and we can never fully know ourselves,” says David Brooks, The New York Times columnist. I heard Brooks speak recently at Arts & Letters Live in Dallas. His new book is How to Know a Person—The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Seen Deeply. –Joy

  • A mystery

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    “Look at someone not as a problem to be solved, but as a mystery to be solved,” says David Brooks, The New York Times columnist. I heard Brooks speak recently at Arts & Letters Live in Dallas. His new book is How to Know a Person—The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Seen Deeply.