February 2012
1 post
January 2012
3 posts
December 2011
4 posts
October 2011
1 post
It's not a big deal.
dailypeptalk:
Pep Talk: It’s fine. Nothing to worry about. No one willl die if things aren’t perfect. Just do what you can and then move on to the next big thing that you don’t have to worry about either. Today remind yourself: It’s not a big deal.
I attended a panel of women leaders and this reminds me of something one of them said… “You don’t always have to do ALL things...
August 2011
15 posts
“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last...”
– Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Can't Go Back Now
Funny how when we were younger, we could spend half the time looking at our feet and the other half staring up at the stars. Sometimes we were afraid to dream. And sometimes all we could do was dream. And hope that somehow, tomorrow would be so much kinder than today.
My best friend has finally, finally, fallen in love. It floods my heart with immeasurable joy and relief to know this. After such...
Moments within Moments
It’s impossible to look in any direction and not hear that relentless mantra. The one that drills and screams into everyone’s subconscious. “Be this. Be that. Be there. Be noticed. Be important. Belong. Be gone.” Our fast-food culture masquerades as a buffet course, but we all know nothing is healthy anymore. Especially not with our tendency to self-destruct on the road to...
shutter-thug
I’m taking photos again. Lots of photos.
I feel like I’m coming alive again with every shot I take. :)
filtering shadows & dreams
I’m at this point in my life where I want to be able to say so much more yet do it using so much less than I’m used to. So here’s my stab in the dark:
I’m blessed with two wonderful, amazing kids who call me ‘uncle’ and ‘dad’, respectively. When we’re not together, sometimes I secretly fall into worry that they’ll forget about me down...
“The chains that bind us most closely are the ones we have broken.”
– Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
phasebook
My dad once asked a question which I found extremely funny at the time. “Where IS the internet? Can you touch it? If it’s not a place, then how come people spend so much time going there and logging-in and burying themselves there for hours and weeks instead of actually living their lives?” It made me laugh at first. Until one day, I woke up and realized I had evolved into the...
July 2011
4 posts
1 tag
another year, another reason
I just celebrated my Nth birthday and it was just another reason to be thankful for all the blessings that came my way last year…and all the positive things I’m sure are in store for me as the new year unfolds. It was of course double the dose of happiness because my parents were in town to celebrate with me. Come to think of it, I think this is the first birthday in ten years that I...
when someone asks you where your wings went, tell...
Sometimes you have to wonder just what it is that tells kids they can go to you for anything —- and know it’ll always be okay. Take young Isabel for instance. She doesn’t know anything about me except that one, I used to date her teacher, and two, I tend to head south of whatever the authority figures say.
About a week ago, she asked me for a miracle: she needed to know where to...
June 2011
1 post
1 tag
“Everybody is a genius.
But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,...”
– Albert Einstein
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Thankful for all the teachers who recognized the abilities I did possess.
I only hope I do as well with my students. I admit sometimes I evaluate them based on what I believe/think they should be able to do, instead of what they are capable of doing.
May 2011
10 posts
life is a secret to share.
Much like me, he was always ready to turn around and walk off into the sunset anytime things got too hard to bear. Her deepest wound as a child was that she was abandoned, for a time, by the person she needed most. Somehow, they found each other. And much like a beautiful saying goes, their wounds were slowly turned to stars.
They’re not the same people they were when they got married...
“Beloved, it’s not enough that you know that God loves everyone. You need to know...”
– Joseph Prince
April 2011
8 posts
“You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what...”
– Joseph Campbell
“Where you invest your love, you invest your life.”
– – Mumford & Sons (“Awake My Soul”)
“For I remember it is Easter morn,
And life and love and peace are all new born.”
– Alice Freeman Palmer
“And I pray that I’m an artist who rises above,
The road that is wide and...”
– Kirk Franklyn
“The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
back on the grid, and all is silent now.
My wi-fi connection’s FINALLY working after weeks of being irredeemably on the fritz. There were so many things I wanted to capture through writing about them, so many things I wanted to share. But it’s like life rushed in to fill the empty spaces I was saving, and before I knew it, the current of recent events swept me away.
Despite all this, I remain still. And I remain grateful.
...
Say it again
There’s an irreplaceable sense of peace that comes with knowing you’ve earned the scars required by some dreams.
-Life according to Lance
I completely agree. Actually, sometimes it’s the scars that make the dream larger than life. Battle scars aren’t pretty…but it proves you at least went to battle for something worth it. Scars, no matter how shallow or faint or deep they...
March 2011
16 posts
an uncompromising desire to be The Last Original...
an excerpt from a conversation I had with a friend last night:
“You remember two weeks ago when we were hanging out and I asked you and Tim what movies you guys felt really captured your lives? I mean, Tim chose this movie and I went for that other one. But you, God, I was so jealous. You didn’t choose. And you didn’t have to. Me and other guys, we want to see ourselves in...
inspiration
I was at a conference these past few days and after sitting through presentation after presentation, it was energizing to listen to two very dynamic speakers. One speaking about passion and the other demonstrating exactly that. Both bringing home the point that at the end of the day, whether you are in the industry, or teaching future industry leaders, it boils down to this: truly caring about...
“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into flame by an encounter with...”
– Albert Schweitzer