The Resolute Woman

Category: holidays

  • Happy Thanksgiving!

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    We hope that your tummy will be full of good food, and your heart will be full of gratitude. As Pooh thought happily, “Thanksgiving is a time when everybody gets rumbly in the tumbly and thankful by the heartful.” We found the Pooh quote on a Hallmark card.

  • Count your blessings

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    “Gratitude is a way of looking at the world that does not change the facts of your life, but has the power to make your life more enjoyable,” says Rabbi Harold Kushner. “Learn to respond to the sun’s coming up every morning as a miracle….Instead of wishing that you felt better physically and could lose…

  • What a world

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    Abby, one of the characters in Anne Tyler’s book A Spool of Blue Thread, remembers that the wicked witch in “The Wizard of Oz,” said, “I’m melting! Melting! Oh, what a world, what a world.” Abby is the mother of four, the collector of “orphans.” Her orphans, who frequently show up at holiday dinners, are…

  • Everything you need to know about love

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    I found the book called Everything I Need to Know about Love I Learned from a Little Golden Book by Diane Muldrow on a table with other books for Valentine’s gifts at Barnes & Nobles. One page featured an illustration of Little Red Riding Hood. “Of course, there are a lot of wolves out there,”…

  • The simple pleasure of flowers

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    Mary Cassatt usually avoided painting flowers. “She avoided a genre in which many female artists historically had been confined,” explained the words next to her painting in a exhibit called “Bouquets” at the Dallas Museum of Art. Her painting was beautiful and so were the many other colorful paintings in the exhibit. All of them…

  • Share the gift of peace

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    I found this lovely message on a Christmas card from my friend Mary Ann. Peace is not something you wish for. It’s something you make, Something you do, Something you are And something you give away. Share the gift of peace. –Joy

  • Happy New Year!

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    It’s the beginning of a new year! Today, enjoy the blessing of the year ahead. Don’t make resolutions. You can do that tomorrow. Don’t think of all the things that you didn’t accomplish last year. Think about what you did accomplish. Don’t think about all your problems. Think about all of your blessings. We wish…

  • Merry Christmas, Scrooge!

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    My family has gone every year—or almost every year—to see the Dallas Theater Center’s performance of “A Christmas Carol.” I remember fondly performances when my children, now adults, couldn’t sit still and were frightened by Charles Dickens’ ghosts. This year, however, I bought tickets for my husband, Jerry, and my daughter, Mary Elizabeth, but not…

  • A lesson relearned—keep laughing

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    When I am too busy and the traffic is annoying and I’m running late, I’ve found the best remedy always is laughter. I try to remember the reason for the holidays. This is not a season to be endured, but a season to be enjoyed. Sometimes, though, I have to remind myself to keep smiling.…

  • A quiet day! An Old Year’s Resolution

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    I love the holiday season. I love going to see the Dallas Theater Center’s production of “A Christmas Carol” every year. I love parties with my friends and attending the Christmas Eve service at my church with my family. However, sometimes, often, the holiday season can be too overwhelming, too frantic, too busy. I am…