The Resolute Woman

Category: holidays

  • Peace is happiness

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    “Peace is the fairest form of happiness,” William Ellery Channing once said.

  • Finding peace

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    I haven’t felt peaceful this week. I have a tree to decorate, Christmas cards to address, packages to wrap. Even though I had a long list of things to do, my husband and I ate a leisurely lunch at the Dallas Arboretum with a friend a couple of days ago. After we ate, we took…

  • What is peace?

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    Peace is helping your neighbor. Peace is thinking about someone you love. Peace is sharing a meal. I found these definitions in a delightful children’s book by Todd Parr. It’s title is The Peace Book. How do you define peace? What can you do to create peace during this holiday season? –Joy

  • Hold fast to hope

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    My favorite poem about hope is really about dreams. Langston Hughes wrote it, and I change the word “dreams” in the poem to the word “hope.” “Hold fast to hope,” my edited version reads, “For if hope dies, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” –Joy

  • Hope and joy

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    Bill Holston says that he is hopeful. Holston is hopeful in the same sense as Vaclav Havel, he wrote in the December 4, 2019, issue of the Dallas Morning News. “Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that…

  • An awareness and a feeling

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    May you feel grateful today—so grateful that you feel grateful in your ribs! I am going to remember to stop rushing around, stop being busy with my holiday activities for a few minutes. I am going to remember to be aware that I am grateful. “Gratitude is both a feeling and an awareness,” wrote Marcus…

  • Getting ready to be thankful

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    We have been working extra hard to get ready for Thanksgiving this year. We have been doing our best to make our house look presentable because our son Jay is bringing home his good friend Rachel for the holiday. We even bought a new garbage can because our old garbage no longer opened automatically when…

  • A morning walk

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    It can be chilly in the morning now when I go for my morning walk—but I’m prepared. If needed, I put on two pairs of gloves and two pairs of socks. Long underwear underneath my walking pants. And lots of layers under my coat. If it’s really cold, I wear a short-sleeve t-shirt, a long-sleeve…

  • Too many books!

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    I attended the Texas Book Festival in Austin last month. More than 300 authors attended the festival. I haven’t heard a count of how many people listened to the authors, but last year 50,000 people were there. I heard John Grisham, Malcolm Gladwell and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speak—and a few more authors, too.…

  • All good things

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    “All good things are wild and free,” Thoreau once said.