As some of you know, I’m studying for a personal training certification (yep, big, BIG career change). For any of the major certifications, you can’t even get your test results back unless you are CPR certified. I knew CPR, but it had been a while (probably 6 or 7 years), and I never [...]
About a week ago I was in the parking lot at work. I had started the car, and happened to glance at the side view mirror just as a bee landed on it. The bee was completely loaded up with pollen, stuffed like saddlebags on its hind legs. This was taken through [...]
“Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.”
- Alan W. Watts
“A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually.
One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.”
- Rita Mae Brown
“How we go through the fire determines whether we get burned or refined.“
- my friend Coosa, 2006
“Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility,
like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give
forth its spark.”
- Henri Frederic Amiel
“Persistence is what makes the impossible possible,
the possible likely, and the likely definite.”
- Robert Half
“We are all born with God-given, unique traits and skills.
But as with all possibilities they will remain unrealized unless
they are developed, nurtured and put into practice.”
- Leo Buscaglia
“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness.
Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret,
how to acquire without meanness.”
- George Sand
This seems to be an art in the process of extinction.
“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them.”
- Louisa May Alcott