November 29, 2006 – 2:33 pm
When a stranger extended an offer of help recently, I was mystified by the motive yet amazed by its randomness and generosity.
But when a second person entered my life just as randomly with information that was helpful to my business, I no longer felt the offers were random.
So I paid attention which was not what everyone would have done, considering the fact that the offers came from strangers out of the [...]
November 21, 2006 – 2:45 pm
I just came across a poem by Langston Hughes as I was straightening up my kitchen counter for Thanksgiving. I don’t know how it ended up in my recipe book but there it was, a water-stained piece of recycled paper and the poem scratched out in handwriting a little neater than my norm. I’d copied it several months ago [...]
November 15, 2006 – 10:17 am
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. touched me again this week during the groundbreaking ceremony for his national Memorial on the Mall.
It was as if his powerful and protective arm of leadership and fatherly concern was around me more securely, holding me to him. Though I picture him as lofty and on a pedestal, I never think of him as alone; [...]
November 2, 2006 – 5:20 pm
Whoever said “It’s not what you say that counts but how you say it that’s important” was right.
Tone is everything.
Webster’s Dictionary defines tone as: “A manner of speaking or writing that shows a certain attitude on the part of the speaker or writer, consisting in choice of words, phrasing, etc.”
Right now I’m struggling with reading [...]
November 1, 2006 – 5:50 pm
Our hero Barbaro is choosing life over death. I am praying he’ll win for he deserves this victory more than any other in his remarkable career.
He’s showing us by his determination that he prefers a long life to all those thousands of red roses, cheers, apples and peppermints.
Barbaro’s our trainer by teaching us about courage and grit. About how it’s OK to be vulnerable, just [...]
