Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away! You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go. You’ll […]
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The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love for your dream for […]
If This Were My Last Day on Earth I’d…
The days we live just skip on by as we think about what could be what should have been or what may one day be. All this thinking and planning plodding just seems to cloud the mind depress the soul inspire more couch sitting staring at walls grinding of teeth. But what if this were […]
If I Could Share a Thing or Two with the World
If I could share a thing or two to the world I’d share That a smile is worth more than gold A soul should be treated with utmost care We should love one another as though we are each precious treasures Life can be lived in the present (That’s where true happiness is found) The heart is […]
Wooden Boats by Judy Brown
I have a brother who builds wooden boats, Can bend or turn, steamed just exactly Soft enough so he, with help of friends, Can shape it to the hull. The knowledge lies as much Within his sure hands on the plane As in his head; It lies in love of wood and grain, A rough […]
Dharma by Billy Collins
The way the dog trots out the front door every morning without a hat or an umbrella without money or the keys to her doghouse never fails to fill the saucers of my heart with milky admiration. Who provides a finer example of a life without encumbrance– Thoreau in his curtainless hut with a single […]
So Much Happiness by Naomi Shihab Nye
It is difficult to know what to do with so much happiness. With sadness there is something to rub against, a wound to tend with lotion and cloth. When the world falls in around you, you have pieces to pick up, something to hold in your hands, like ticket stubs or change. But happiness floats. […]