The Resolute Woman

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  • Work and hope

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    I love the book West with the Night by Beryl Markham, who wrote about her experiences as an airplane pilot in Africa during the 1930s. I also love the advice that Markham’s father gave her when she started her first job as a horse trainer. “Work and hope,” he said. “But never hope more than…

  • The best things in the world

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    Here’s a good quote, one I’ve encountered before, one worth remembering and repeating, from a card from my good friend Barbara. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be touched but are felt with the heart.” –Helen Keller

  • Three generations of Resolute Women

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    Dr. Myiesha Taylor is one of the fewer than 5 percent of United States doctors who are black women. Her grandmother, Margaret Montgomery, fulfilled her dream of becoming an entry-level nurse who took blood pressure and changed sheets. Her mother, Carolyn Bartlett, became a registered nurse with a master’s degree in public health. And, Dr.…

  • Resolute Woman? Or, superwoman?

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    Fayteen recently had surgery. “The doctor told me that I’ll be driving in a week,” she told me before the surgery. “I’ll be back to normal in a week or two.” I know for certain that Fayteen is a Resolute Woman and that her determination and optimism are strengths. Sometimes, however, even Resolute Women try…

  • The chief executive optimist

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    Talia Leman was 10 years old in 2005 when she heard about the damage caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. She decided to do something. Soon she was on the “Today” show talking about her plans to ask for contributions on Halloween night. The governor held a press conference to promote her efforts. A grocery…

  • A great figure among moderns

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    I recently saw “End of the Day—Nightscape IV” by Louise Nevelson at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Nevelson, the plaque next to the art work explains, did not achieve critical acclaim until the 1950s when she was included in an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The primary…

  • A salute to Ruth Bernerito

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    I’m wearing a wrinkle-free cotton shirt today in honor of Ruth Bernerito. Bernerito, whose death at 97 was reported recently in the Los Angeles Times, was born in 1916 in New Orleans. After she graduated from high school at 14 and started taking classes at Newcomb College, she was “one of two women allowed to…

  • Inspiration from Alice Munro

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    Alice Munro, who recently won a 2013 Nobel Prize in literature, once was a mother with young children. She wanted to write, but she didn’t have time to produce a novel. Instead, Munro, now 82, wrote short stories. “For years and years, I thought that stories were just practice till I got time to write…

  • Finding wisdom

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    When I was in my 20s, I thought that someday I would wake up with grownup wisdom. I would know all of the answers to life’s mysteries and dilemmas. I’m still searching. That’s why I like Ann Patchett’s words in her book What now?. “For the most part, wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks,”…

  • Life as a weaving

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    Remember Corrie ten Boom, the Dutch woman who helped more than 800 Jews escape the Nazis during World War II? When I saw an announcement that the International Ballet Theater is performing “The Weaving,” the dance narrative about the life of this remarkable woman, in Dallas, I was disappointed that I will be out of…