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A World With a Different Kind of Memorial Day

“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.” – Sam Ewing “All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” – Martin Luther King Jr. “Far and away the best prize thatContinue reading “A World With a Different Kind of Memorial Day”

Women Unite!

“Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.” –Dalai Lama “I think governments can’t do much.” –Dalai Lama “Change in the world comes from individuals, from the inner peace in individual hearts. Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have farContinue reading “Women Unite!”

You Get More With Honey Part 2

“I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural…to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.”-Elbert Hubbard Something about the article about Donald Sterling that I wrote last week stirred up lots of discussion, and made me go back to take anotherContinue reading “You Get More With Honey Part 2”

You Get More With Honey

“It’s not what enters men’s mouths that’s evil. It’s what comes out of their mouths that is.” –Paulo Coelho The Alchemist “If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people.” –Virginia Woolf Recent events, and subsequent comments about them in the media have got my ire up.Continue reading “You Get More With Honey”

Keeping Promises to Myself

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” –Thomas Edison “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” –Confucius “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” –PauloContinue reading “Keeping Promises to Myself”