So a while back, I signed up for the Bitches Get Shit Done daily text from Kelly Sue DeConnick, and I have to say, the messages have been both really funny and inspiring in a useful way.

Today's message:
Fresh start. This week resolve to focus on only your responsibilities and the things you can control. Mind your side of the street.
I can get ( Read more... )

"Illegitimi non carborundum."

(Don't let the bastards grind you down.)

-- General Joseph 'Vinegar Joe' Stilwell

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Lex I: Corpus omne perseverare in statu suo quiescendi vel movendi uniformiter in directum, nisi quatenus a viribus impressis cogitur statum illum mutare.

--Newton's First Law of Motion
I feel a little bit like one of those objects right now, but that's okay. It's almost like what I imagine riding the edge of some very large wave must be. As long ( Read more... )

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

--Sidney J. Harris
What is without periods of rest will not endure.

--Ovid
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.

--Sir John LubbockFrom the above quotes, it ( Read more... )

Today's subject line is a quote from St. David (c. 590, or thereabouts), and translates as "Do the little things in life." It's a phrase I ran across in a newsletter from the Welsh society out here, and as a snippet of wisdom and a piece of advice both, I'm fond of it ( Read more... )

(A Note, if only for my own self-reference: I know I haven't said anything about the recent tragedy at VA Tech. Believe me, I haven't missed it, nor have I forgotten. I'm still trying to formulate words on the topic, which I suspect will end up as part of a separate post yet to come.)I have a confession to make, and it is this: although I am ( Read more... )

Today's subject line translates as "to the stars (we aspire) through difficulties," and is the state motto of Kansas-- although that's not the point. No, the point is-- and has always been, for me-- that even the impossible can be reached eventually, no matter what the obstacles in the way ( Read more... )

(Subject line quote attribution: Taken from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,, by George Gordon, Lord Byron ( Read more... )