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All shall be well
It’s December. I made fudge, and, since I won’t be seeing my children this holiday season, I am mailing them fudge. It is December—a season of hope and love and joy—even during a pandemic. “All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well,” Julian of Norwich once…
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Thankful for friends
This year, especially, I am thankful for my friends. I am thankful for my friends who call me on the phone, friends who send me text messages and my friend who shows up in my front yard for an in-person chat. As William James once said, “It is your friends who make your world.” –Joy
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Hope is light
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness,” Desmond Tutu once said.
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Inner peace
“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace,” the Dalai Lama once said. Hold tight to your inner peace during the next stressful, exciting, crazy week.
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A ripple of hope
“Each time a man a (or a woman or a child) stands up for an ideal—or acts to improve the lot of others—or strikes out against injustice, he (or she) sends forth a tiny ripple of hope—and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which…
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Truth and facts
“There is no truth, we all know that,” says Robert Caro, Pulitzer Prize winning author. “No one truth. No objective truth. No simple truth or no one simple truth either. But there are facts. Hard facts. Objective facts. Verifiable facts. And the more facts you come up with, the closer you come to whatever truth…
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Ease is the disease
“Ease is the disease….Once you’ve bought a novel in your pajamas, there’s no turning back,” writes Richard Powers in The Overstory.
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People who are difficult
“I don’t enjoy normal, high functioning people,” Frederik Backman, the author of a new book called Anxious People, said recently during an Arts & Letters Live virtual presentation. “When I meet other people who are normal and happy and content, I don’t like them. I like people who are difficult, who march to the beat…
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Look into nature
I am feeling anxious about the elections and the pandemic, but I always feel more peaceful after my morning walk—especially when the weather turns cooler and the leaves turn yellow and orange and red. As Albert Einstein once said, “Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.” –Joy
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Fight like RBG
“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you,” Ruth Bader Ginsberg once said.