The Daily Ripple
The Daily Ripple
| “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes — including you.” ~Anne Lamott~ Your phone needs to recharge. Your laptop needs to recharge. Turns out, so do you. The Dude figured this out the hard way. Now he builds the pause in before the day builds it out of him. Unplug. Just for a minute. See what happens. The Dude 🐸 Thought for the Day What if the pause isn’t lost time — what if it’s the whole point? |
“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”~ Albert Camus ~ Look up. Before you order. Before you ask for anything. Before you even think about what you need — look up and find the person standing in front of you. Ask that person how their day is going. That’s it…that’s…
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”~Mark Twain~ Everyone’s got an opinion about Monday. Dragging feet. Heavy sighs. The whole world acting like the alarm clock is the enemy. The Dude sees it different. Monday isn’t a punishment. It’s a starting line. And there’s something electric about a starting line if you let yourself…
“A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.”~Erma Bombeck~ Sound familiar? You’re not lazy. You’re not broken. You’re just full — running fourteen tabs your brain never asked to open. Computers get a reboot. You get a porch,…
“A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.”~ Attributed to Mahatma Gandhi ~ How many times did you say yes today before your feet hit the floor? Accept all cookies. Agree to terms. Yes, I’m still watching. Most of those yeses weren’t…
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”~ Lao Tzu ~ The river doesn’t rush. It doesn’t set an alarm. It doesn’t check its phone. It doesn’t wonder if it’s moving fast enough or doing enough or being enough. It just moves. Steady. In the direction it was always going. The Dude thinks about this…
“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”~ Oprah Winfrey ~ We forget to do it. Not the automatic kind — the real kind. The slow, deep, intentional breath that brings you back to right now. Good news or bad news. A big…