"Measure wealth not by the things you have, but by the things you have for which you would not accept money."
--author unknown
Monday, January 27, 2014
Monday, January 20, 2014
Quote Collection
Beautiful quotes from my current stack of books:
Story
"Telling our stories is holy work."
---Reverend Nancy Lane, Ph.D.
"Owning our story can be hard, but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it....only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light."
---Brene Brown
Repetition
"Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself---in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."
---Elizabeth Bowen
"Repetition is not failure.
Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind.
There is no expected pace for inner learning. What we need to learn comes when we need it, no matter how old or young, no matter how many times we have to start over, no matter how many times we have to learn the same lesson. No one really likes this, of course, but we deal with our dislikes in the same way, again and again, until we learn what we need to know about the humility of acceptance."
---Mark Nepo
Compassion
"I don't believe compassion is our default response. I think our first response to pain---ours or someone else's---is to self-protect. We protect ourselves by looking for someone or something to blame. Or sometimes we shield ourselves by turning to judgment or by immediately going into fix-it mode."
---Brene Brown
"When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience the fear of our pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us."
---Pema Chodron
Story
"Telling our stories is holy work."
---Reverend Nancy Lane, Ph.D.
"Owning our story can be hard, but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it....only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light."
---Brene Brown
Repetition
"Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself---in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."
---Elizabeth Bowen
"Repetition is not failure.
Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind.
There is no expected pace for inner learning. What we need to learn comes when we need it, no matter how old or young, no matter how many times we have to start over, no matter how many times we have to learn the same lesson. No one really likes this, of course, but we deal with our dislikes in the same way, again and again, until we learn what we need to know about the humility of acceptance."
---Mark Nepo
Compassion
"I don't believe compassion is our default response. I think our first response to pain---ours or someone else's---is to self-protect. We protect ourselves by looking for someone or something to blame. Or sometimes we shield ourselves by turning to judgment or by immediately going into fix-it mode."
---Brene Brown
"When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience the fear of our pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us."
---Pema Chodron
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Forward
I receive a lot of forwarded emails from my mom. She will correct me to say, "A few." And she will quantify exactly how many are in a few, how many are in several, and whether my grammar is correct. It usually ain't. (Hi, Mom.)
So fun so fun so fun.
Some of these emails are political, some are religious, but the best ones are titled I THOUGHT SHE WOULD LIKE THIS and include a video of puppies interacting with lions in a seemingly natural way. These are for me to show to my daughter.
Today's email was titled WE WERE ALL HOME SCHOOLED and at the bottom, was a quote unrelated to the actual email. Sort of like getting a video of a lion and a puppy playing, and at the bottom it might say, "God Bless America."
Anyway, I liked the quote. It went:
So fun so fun so fun.
Some of these emails are political, some are religious, but the best ones are titled I THOUGHT SHE WOULD LIKE THIS and include a video of puppies interacting with lions in a seemingly natural way. These are for me to show to my daughter.
Today's email was titled WE WERE ALL HOME SCHOOLED and at the bottom, was a quote unrelated to the actual email. Sort of like getting a video of a lion and a puppy playing, and at the bottom it might say, "God Bless America."
Anyway, I liked the quote. It went:
"Faith is not about everything turning out ok. It's about being ok, no matter how things turn out."
Shaz-am. God Bless America.
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Discovery
Unanimous conclusion at the dinner table tonight:
Goat's milk is not as delicious as goat's cheese.
Goat's milk is not as delicious as goat's cheese.
Friday, December 27, 2013
everything is compostable
"Creativity and innovation are often byproducts of tension, conflict, stress, and agitation."
--Victor Lipman
--Victor Lipman
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Gamblers and Robbers, Drinkers and Jokers, All
soul searchers.
By golly I love this Christmas song. I found it on an old mix cd that a friend made years and years ago. He's asked each of his friends for one song, collected the titles, and put a cd of 15 tunes together, then gave it as his gift. Every time I stumble upon it I can picture each friend's face by the song they selected.
It is such a very random collection of music, like a book that has 15 chapters by 15 different authors. And somehow, it seems perfectly orchestrated.
I found myself singing it to my brother the other night and he was like, Enough already.
And I was like, no, never enough already. I have to keep singing it til the next song comes in my head.
So it goes, and so the story's told.
By golly I love this Christmas song. I found it on an old mix cd that a friend made years and years ago. He's asked each of his friends for one song, collected the titles, and put a cd of 15 tunes together, then gave it as his gift. Every time I stumble upon it I can picture each friend's face by the song they selected.
It is such a very random collection of music, like a book that has 15 chapters by 15 different authors. And somehow, it seems perfectly orchestrated.
I found myself singing it to my brother the other night and he was like, Enough already.
And I was like, no, never enough already. I have to keep singing it til the next song comes in my head.
So it goes, and so the story's told.
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Lots of apps
My 7 year old made a Christmas list.
The first requested item was:
lots of apps
I was like, "What is this?"
She said, "I don't know. I think it's a computer game. It was one of my spelling words this week."
I looked at her spelling words, and the first one was, indeed, apps.
She wants a lot of them but isn't sure what they are.
This list is a little crazier than hers, but it has all the products non-home-schooled 7 year olds know about. Along with hysterical commentary from the receiving parent.
Thanks, Julie, for sending this along.
The first requested item was:
lots of apps
I was like, "What is this?"
She said, "I don't know. I think it's a computer game. It was one of my spelling words this week."
I looked at her spelling words, and the first one was, indeed, apps.
She wants a lot of them but isn't sure what they are.
This list is a little crazier than hers, but it has all the products non-home-schooled 7 year olds know about. Along with hysterical commentary from the receiving parent.
Thanks, Julie, for sending this along.
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