The Resolute Woman

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  • Autumn leaves

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    It’s still 80 degrees in Dallas on November 7, 2023, but I have seen a few autumn leaves. “Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree,” Emily Bronte once said. –Joy

  • Peaceful and vengeful

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    A native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about his feelings. He said, “I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is vengeful, angry and violent. The other wolf is peaceful, loving and compassionate. I found this short story in the book The Way of Peace–Readings for a…

  • Your peace

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    “Don’t let people pull you into their storm. Pull them into your peace,” Kimberly Jones once said. This quote appeared in the book The Way of Peace–Readings for a Harmonious Life.

  • Washington’s wish for peace

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    “My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,” George Washington once said.

  • Noise

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    Panchita, Isabel Allende’s mother, once said, “Everything can be handled elegantly and without noise.” Isabel disagreed. “There’s no feminism without noise,” she writes. I just read Allende’s book The Soul of a Woman. Some of the book is very interesting, and some of it is not so interesting. –Joy

  • Simple pleasures

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    Fall leaves, cooler weather and a cup of tea. Simple pleasures. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.” I hope you enjoy some simple pleasures today. –Joy

  • Owls are good parents

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    A mother owl sits on her next for nearly 24 hours a day, with her head low and stomach down. She keeps her eggs at the right temperature, cool when it’s hot and warm when it’s cold. A breeding Snowy Owl will keep her eggs close to 98 degrees, even when the temperature plummets to…

  • Happy October!

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    Happy Autumn! Happy October! Happy Almost Halloween! I just read a book that seems appropriate for the season. It’s What an Owl Know—The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman. Did you know that 260 species of owls exist today? They range, Ackerman writes, from the Elf Owl, a little nugget…

  • Good-bye summer

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    It’s almost autumn. I hope you have had a summer like the one Ray Bradbury describes in his book Dandelion Wine. A summer “where flowers were suns and fiery spots of sky strewn through the woodland. Birds flickered like skipping stones across the vast inverted pond of heaven.” I hope you’ve had a summer with…

  • Women should be quiet

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    Women, of course, often have not enjoyed anything close to equality, reports Elizabeth Wayland Barber in her book Women’s Work—The First 20,000 Years. Socrates, Barber writes, once asked an Athenian gentleman named Isomachos if he had trained his 14-year-old bride. Yes, the gentleman replied, because the girl was of “good breeding,” and she had spent…