This week’s withdrawal of hope comes from Shel Silverstein. He has a number of well-known motivational, insperational, and all-around positive poems and books. One of the best examples is The Giving Tree. Another is The Missing Piece and The Missing Piece Meets [...]
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Are you someone who minds or someone who matters? In other words are you a “minder” or a “matterer”? Still not making much sense? Okay, Dr Seuss put it this way:
The people who mind don’t matter and the people who matter don’t [...]
Greetings. This week the inspirational quotation comes from Sister Helen Prejean. You can see her online www.prejean.org. At a conference in Chicago last week she said:
Forgiveness is not condoning. Forgiveness is saving your own life, it is preserving the love you have [...]
This week, while I’m away at a conference in the Windy City Chicago, Il (attending not speaking — a vacation, almost) Richard Dedor fills in for me. Richard reminds us that “Anything Is Possible” as he tours the blogsphere for his new [...]
Greetings everyone. This week I have to credit Hallmark of all people for the withdrawal of hope. I went there to buy a card for my friend Andy’s birthday. They told me they were giving free cards away from a new [...]
This week’s message comes from Winston in Minnesota. He writes about the Olypmics!
Deep in my mind, is a “dream box.” The Olympics remind me. To open it. They said no one could run the 4 minute mile. Roger Bannister did & now [...]
A philosophy professor stood before his class with some items on the table in front of him. When the class began, he picked up a very large and empty jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks, about 2 inches in diameter. [...]