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Grabbed this from elynross’s profile:

You learn that most people are neither for you or against you. They are thinking of themselves. You learn that no matter what you do, some people aren’t going to love you. A lesson that is at first troubling, then quite relaxing.

- John W. Gardner

*loves*

“Growth comes by way of allowance of another person’s touch.”

- The Passage, The Gift, and The Prophecy by Jeff Gutterman

DAY 11 (today)

The thought for today is CONTEMPLATION. Take a moment to relax, breathe and let your mind be fed by what is good and beautiful.

DAY 12 (tomorrow)The thought for today is GROUNDEDNESS. Gandhi said, “to forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” Black Elk said, “some little root of the sacred tree still ( Read more... )

“But I began to think of time as having a shape, something you can see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another. You don’t look back along time, but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.”

(Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood)

Originally posted this September 2, 2002, but it bears repeating.

“From the gossamer threads of a faint remembered Sunrise ( Read more... )