Dreams

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”~Lao Tzu~ Ollie doesn’t size up the other dogs at the river. Big dog, small dog, fast dog, slow dog — doesn’t matter to him. He just runs, tail going, completely himself, no comparing, no competing. And every dog…

“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.”~Viktor Frankl~ Nobody hands you meaning. You make it. Frankl figured this out the hard way — surviving concentration camps, watching everything stripped away except one thing nobody could touch: his ability to choose what any of it meant to him. You’ve got that same freedom, minus…

“I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.”~ Anne Frank ~ Memory’s a funny thing…it slips, it edits itself, it forgets the parts that mattered most. But a pen and a blank page don’t forget anything. Write it down, and it’s yours to keep. There’s something to just shutting…

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”~ Albert Einstein ~ Momentum gets you going. Movement keeps you going. It doesn’t always mean speed. Or miles. Or even legs. Sometimes it’s the mind. A quiet morning. A deep breath. A thought you finally set down. You don’t need the…

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”~ John Muir ~ Look at a river long enough and you start to see it. Every tributary feeds the next one. Every stream finds its way to something bigger. Nothing out there is doing it alone……