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Hope and love
With these words, Pete Seeger sang of hope and love. Oh, had I a golden thread And a needle so fineI would weave a magic spellOf rainbow design… In it, I would weave the courage Of women giving birth And in it I would weave the innocenceOf the children of all the earthChildren of all…
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A walk in nature
I love my walks in my neighborhood in Dallas, but I love even more walks in New Mexico. And, I’m in New Mexico visiting my brother—and we are taking walks! As John Muir once said, “In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.” Or, she seeks, of course! –Joy
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No simple solutions?
Of course, there are no simple solutions. But, are our problems too complex to solve? Here’s what Madeleine Albright once said: “I have spent a lifetime looking for remedies to all manner of life’s problems — personal, social, political, global. I am deeply suspicious of those who offer simple solutions and statements of absolute certainty…
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A place in hell
We need to help each other. As Madeleine Albright, this country’s first female secretary of state, once said, “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.”
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The heart of empathy
What is empathy? Christopher Myers, in his introduction for Home Is Not a Country, offers one answer. “It seems to me,” he says, “that this knowledge—that you could have just as easily been any one of a hundred other people—is at the heart of empathy. It’s the realization that every person you meet, or see…
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Take a trip
I’m escaping! I am tired of “vegetating in one little corner of the earth.” I am planning trips again—and I hope the crazy COVID numbers stay lower and this pandemic doesn’t interfere with my plans. I agree with Mark Twain, who once said: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our…
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Keep walking
“I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it,” Kierkegaard once said. “But, by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill.”
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Trying to try
In her new book Good Enough, Kate Bowler writes, “Trying feels harder than it did before.” “We are trying,” she explains. “Well, we are trying to try….We will have to find enough momentum to reach for a life that is never perfect, but good enough.”
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Love what is here
Kate Bowler, the writer, advise us to forget “what could have been.” “Blessed are you who are attempting to love what is here, what is now. You who recognize the wonder and pain looking at life’s rearview mirror, at those things that are gone.“
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Be positive!?
Test negative. Be positive. I had my patience tested. I’m negative. I heard both of these lines during a Zoom meeting recently. Since then, I’m determined to be more positive—and more patient. –Joy