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Wait and be calm
“By waiting and by calm you shall be saved. In quiet and in trust your strength lies.” –Isaiah30:15 I found this verse in Martin Laird’s book Into the Silent Land.
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The time is now
In her autobiography The Truths We Hold, Kamala Harris quotes James Baldwin: “There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment. The time is now.”
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A valuable rule
Judaism says: “What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow humans.” The Golden Rule “means this: Treat people the way you would like to be treated. It’s golden because it’s so valuable—and a way of living your life that’s so simple, it shines,” says the grandfather in Ilene Cooper’s children’s book The…
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The Golden Rule
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” “It means this: Treat people the way you would like to be treated. It’s golden because it’s so valuable—and a way of living your life that’s so simple, it shines,” says the grandfather in Ilene Cooper’s children’s book The Golden Rule.
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A dream of peace
“We must begin with a world perspective, for we will not be able to realize the American Dream until we work to realize a world dream,” Martin Luther King Jr. once said. “A world dream of peace, and brotherhood, and goodwill.”
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A warning about our democracy
Heather Cox Richardson, the author of Democracy Awakening, warns us: “Democracies die more often through the ballot box than at gunpoint.”
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The comfort of friendship
Powerful winds toppled trees in our neighborhood this week, and we lost power. We were in the dark for 26 hours, but our lights came on at 7:30 one morning—just as we were leaving to have breakfast with our neighbor across the street—and she still cooked us breakfast even though our power had returned! As…
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More buried wisdom
I am sorting through more papers—and more papers. Getting ready for a major house renovation. More papers! And, I have found more words of wisdom. I have always liked this poem by Mary Oliver—especially the last two lines. “Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?” –Joy
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What you pretend
“We are what we pretend to be,” the author Kurt Vonnegut once said. “So, we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
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When should you be angry?
I mentioned that I’m angry and distraught that we have to make major repairs to our home’s foundation and plumbing. The news was shocking, but I am absorbing it—and remembering something my mother said often. “You can tell the size of a person by what makes that person angry.” Yes, the news was terrible. But,…