“Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.” ~ Aristotle. When I was a teenager I had large thoughts and grand questions. Was it reasonable to think that our earth was the only habitable planet in the universe? Could there be another world, another population, possibly another me out there somewhere? Was […]
‘Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself.’ ~ Jean-Paul Sartre. Have you ever stopped to think about how amazing the human body is? We are composed of trillions of cells, each with their own job to do. Born as common stem cells, they grow up and differentiate into specialists, performing […]
“Our patience will achieve more than our force.” ~Edmund Burke. I freely admit to being a very impatient person. If given a choice, I will take the stairs instead of the elevator because of impatience, not for the health benefits. I realize I am not alone in this. Pregnancy is one of those lessons for […]
“When peace like a river…” There are times when the news is hard to believe. Fact can indeed be stranger than fiction. We watch in a state of numb disbelief as we see images of roiling rivers carrying away houses, cars, bridges and roads. And then there’s a story of another mass shooting. From the […]
“This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often.” ~ From the Holstee Manifesto. They say that the secret to wealth is to find something you enjoy doing, and then get paid for doing it. Perhaps the secret to happiness is doing that which you enjoy, with or without payment. I have […]
“We will continue to despise people until we have recognized, loved, and accepted what is despicable in ourselves” ~ Jean Varnier, paraphrasing Martin Luther King Jr. Images of 1963: a peaceful ocean of faces, steadfast and hopeful, marching, standing, working for a better future. A short man elevated by his own rhetoric, rhetoric so powerful […]
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” ~ Plutarch For some people, the purpose of going back to school is to obtain a piece of paper, some kind of documentation to improve your job opportunities. For others, it is a way to prove something to yourself. Perhaps as […]
‘I cried that I had no shoes til I met a man who had no feet’~Mahatma Gandhi By Tuesday of this week I had already convinced myself I was exhausted. I worked a twelve hour shift with students at a clinical site on Monday, taught all day Tuesday – life was indeed hard. In fact […]
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