Category Archives: Forgiveness

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”

Women and Men

“We’re not what books and plays say we are. We’re not what advertisements say we are. We’re not in the movies and we’re not on the radio. We’re not what you’re all told and what you think we are: We’re ourselves. And if any man can find one of us he’ll learn why the wholeContinue reading “Women and Men”

A Season of Compassion

“Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.” –Henry Ward Beecher “Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” –Stevie Wonder Merry Christmas, Seasons Greetings, Happy Holy Days. Last night I watched a wonderful Frank CapraContinue reading “A Season of Compassion”

Another Golden Opportunity

“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.” – J.K. Rowling “It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.” – Chuck Palahniuk It’s happened again. Another school shooting. As I wroteContinue reading “Another Golden Opportunity”