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6 Pinnable Quotes on Change #WednesdayWisdom
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” ― Albert Einstein “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ― Jalaluddin Rumi “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” ― Barack Obama “Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.” ― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story “The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not…
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6 Pinnable Quotes about Caring #WednesdayWisdom
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson “And she was well-enough acquainted with loneliness to understand that the worst part wasn’t having nobody caring for you – it was having nobody to care for.” ~Tessa Dare, Romancing the Duke “To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.” ― Tia Walker, The Inspired Caregiver: Finding Joy While Caring for Those You Love “We can all make a difference in the lives of others…
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O is for “O Captain! My Captain!” of Course.
O Captain! My Captain! BY WALT WHITMAN O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying…
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Keeping Neighbors Warm with a #Scrapgan
As the weather turns colder there is nothing I like more than curling up with a nice warm crochet project, a cup of cocoa, and a good movie. As a matter of fact since I stopped smoking a few years ago, I have become obsessed with crocheting. It gives me something for my hands to do during down times like waiting at the doctor’s office or watching TV. With so many projects, I end up with lots of scraps of yarn, small amounts that are leftover from a project but not enough for another project. Once in a while, I end up with full skeins because I order…
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Children are NOT Collateral Damage
When did it become accepted that children are collateral damage? When did the powers sit down and say children are expendable? In what back room, boardroom, golf course, country club gathering did everyone agree that it was okay to sacrifice children on the alter of corporate greed? In what nightmare of insanity did the world decide it was okay to kill children, to turn children into soldiers and sex slaves? Why are children a target of the elite, of the powers that be? Why is this the new face of war? Khartoon – Choices OmranDaqneesh 5 pulled from under the ruins, AylanKurdi 3 drowned in the Mediterranean Syria pic.twitter.com/Y4XQgfKgHt…
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You Don’t Know Me #BehindTheBlogger
You don’t know me but reading my blog gives you some insight into who I am right now. Who I was before remains a mystery at least for a little while. My lives are starting to collide with old friends discovering my blog and new friends discovering my life. On my blog I reveal bits and pieces at a time but it is focused on my life now, not what came before, so I will share a few things that came before so that you can learn a bit about me, the person, not just the blogger. In 2011, I lost my house to foreclosure and was featured on…
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Anxiety: The Hardest Part about Being Outside
This is the reality for me and other's who deal with Anxiety and Agoraphobia. So if you see me out and I don't respond it's not because I'm being unfriendly or stuck up. It's because the voice in my head telling me to run is so loud I can't hear anything else.
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Writing Through Anxiety
Reading posts on Speak your Truth about living with anxiety has given me strength to share my own struggle. Not as a means to gain sympathy but in the hopes that someone else will read this and find strength much the same way I found strength from Stephanie Neighbour’s blog. Living with anxiety, agoraphobia, depression, etc., you often feel alone and ashamed, afraid someone will find out your secret and think less of you. The internet has provided a space where from the safe anonymity of the computer screen we can find that we are not alone. I have lived with anxiety and bouts of seasonal depression for most of…
