“I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you becauseContinue reading “Love and Live The Questions”
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Christmas Poem by Mary Oliver Says a country legend told every year:Go to the barn on Christmas Eve and seewhat the creatures do as that long night tips over.Down on their knees they will go, the fireof an old memory whistling through their minds! I went. Wrapped to my eyes against the coldI creaked backContinue reading “Christmas Poem”
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Silent night, holy night. All is calm, all is brightRound yon Virgin, Mother and ChildHoly Infant so tender and mildSleep in heavenly peaceSleep in heavenly peace -song “Silent Night” by Franz Xaver Gruber “The three worst things in life are to try to please and not be able to. To lie in bed to sleepContinue reading “On Waiting Well”
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“All I’m saying is I want to look back and say that I did the best I could while I was stuck in this place.” -Don Dawson from the film Dazed and Confused While Wooderson’s “Just Keep Livin’” is the most famous line and has gotten all the glory over the years, Dawson droppin’ someContinue reading “Don Dawson Wisdom”
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Definition of Assertion (noun) a : insistent and positive affirming, maintaining, or defending (as of a right or attribute)b : a declaration that something is the case “The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing…My biggest success and my biggest failures have in common: They began with an assertion.” -SethContinue reading “Proper Assertions”
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“We really need to normalize boredom. Some of your most creative moments come during periods of boredom. In the shower, on a walk, at a dinner by yourself. You’re bored, your mind wanders, your thoughts mingle. Bam! Creative insight strikes. Schedule boredom into your weeks.” -Sahil Bloom “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inabilityContinue reading “Do. No. Thing.”
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“Be strict with yourself and tolerant with others.” -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations “If you will be hard on yourself, life will be easy on you. But if you insist upon being easy on yourself, life is going to be very hard on you.” -Zig Ziglar “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to anContinue reading “Stealing Thunder”
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“When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don’t repeat it.” -Paul “Bear” Bryant “A habit missed once is a mistake. A habit missed twice is the start of a new habit.” -James Clear When you make aContinue reading “How Do You Handle A Mistake?”
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“If you can’t hold yourself accountable, find someone who will.” -Paul Shirley And if you don’t hold yourself accountable, then be prepared to be accountable to someone else.
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“In truth, the work itself is the adventure. And no artist could go about this work, or would want to, with less than extraordinary energy and concentration. The extraordinary is what art is about.” -Mary Oliver The below passage from Mary Oliver’s book of essays Upstream is phenomenal (H/t to to Poetic Outlaws) In creativeContinue reading “Creative Work”
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