Breathe

“The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.”~ Helen Keller, Optimism (1903) ~ Some changes show up with a bang. A loss. A wake-up call. The day everything turns over. Those are the mighty shoves. But…

“He who is in harmony with Nature hits the mark without effort and apprehends the truth without thinking.”~Confucius (paraphrase, Doctrine of the Mean)~ Some things you can’t force. You can study a river for years and still not understand it the way you do standing at its edge for five quiet minutes. Harmony isn’t something…

“It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ Nobody tells you that when you start. You just pick a direction and go. Some days the road is smooth. Some days you’re white-knuckling it through weather you didn’t see coming. Either way, you’re moving. Either way, something is happening to you — and…

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.”~Calvin Coolidge~ There’s a tree that grows sideways out of a crack in solid rock. No good soil, barely any water, wind hitting it every single day. By all logic it shouldn’t be there. But it just kept growing toward the light, a little at a…

“Where your attention goes, your energy flows.”~Unknown~ You protect your wallet. You lock your car. You check your account balance. But your attention? You hand that away for free — a hundred times a day — to things that leave you feeling empty, anxious, or just… flat. Here’s the thing about energy. It follows attention…

“You have to be odd to be number one.”~Dr. Seuss~ Some people ease into a room. Zink is certainly not one of them. From day one she came out swinging — big personality, big laugh, bigger presence. While her brother Tink was busy calculating his next move, Zink had already taken over the room, made…