December 2010
1 post
To my dear friends who may sometimes feel (or have felt) like the “Invisible Mother”…..
It all began to make sense, the blank stares, the lack of response, the way one of the kids will walk into the room while I’m on the phone and ask to be taken to the store. Inside I’m thinking, ‘Can’t you see I’m on the phone?’jane
Obviously not; no one...
April 2010
1 post
One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.
He said, “My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all.
“One is Evil - It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.
“The other is Good - It is joy, peace, love, hope,...
February 2010
1 post
January 2010
5 posts
“You’re the sky…. I am the earth…. My feet shall run because of...”
November 2009
1 post
October 2009
2 posts
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their...”
September 2009
1 post
August 2009
7 posts
“Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.”
“Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because...”
“I’ve learned that we cannot forget or throw away our past, But we must not...”
“If you want something very, very badly, let it go free. If it comes back to you,...”
July 2009
18 posts
Acknowledge
Accept
Appreciate
I just signed my soul over to the devil… Not because I wanted to but because I am scared to death of him…
I am so sad… And mad… Mad at myself, for not being strong and for not being able to just say NO, for always being so scared…
My favorite story........
There once was
a little boy who had a bad temper. His Father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.
The first day
the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next
few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily
gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier...
No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
Don’t let any man in your life distract you from the truth of your heart… There is nothing worse than looking back on your life and wishing you’d done it all differently… That you’d resisted the pressures… That you’d followed that truth faithfully….
Hell is here on earth, in the mistakes we make, in the ways people suffer, in the bloodshed and famine and wars…. In the insistence of our culture that a dying person can’t lawfully be aided in a mercifully death…
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage