“The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.” — Charles Kettering
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Wiped Out
So it’s the end of the week and I am, like many of you, wiped out. There are good things happening (rehearsing for two big shows in Nashville while simultaneously writing the book) and there are some inconvenient things happening (waking up on Wednesday to find that a small wound on the dog’s back had opened and bled all over the white bed linens, which I couldn’t immediately wash because our well was filled with dirt and the water would have turned the white sheets brown while ruining the washing machine) and there are some worrying things happening (a dear friend waiting for biopsy results). But there is no rest for the wicked or the weary or whatever that phrase is, and I needed motivation. [Read more…] about Wiped Out
Quote of the week for Sept. 30
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” — Albert Einstein
The Man (or Woman) in the Arena
This week had some high points (yay!) and some low points (well, there you go) and lucky for me the pluses outweighed the minuses. Since I work alone in the NH woods (with all due respect to my gifted Jack Russell, Andy), I often rely on the words and wisdom of other people who have persevered to help me plow through those low points — like working on a book chapter for a week only to realize it won’t work, at least not yet — without reaching for the Nutella jar. This week, I was reminded of Teddy Roosevelt’s speech “Citizenship in a Republic,” which he delivered at the Sorbonne in Paris on April 23, 1910.
Quote of the Week for Sept. 23
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” — John Shedd