The Daily Ripple
The Daily Ripple
| “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished” ~Lao Tzu~ Not every day is a rapids day. Some days the current barely moves. The water is still. Nothing seems to be happening. You wonder if you’re even going anywhere. You are. The slow river is still the river. Still moving. Still forward. Still taking you somewhere. Don’t mistake slow for stopped. The Dude 🐸 Thought for the Day Today, let slow be enough. |
“Each morning we are born again. What we do today matters most.”~Buddha~ The week doesn’t start Monday. It starts right here, in the quiet before it all kicks off again. The Dude uses Sunday to get right — not busy, not productive. Just right. It’s a work in progress, like everything else. Set the table…
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”~ Bruce Lee ~ Talent’s overrated. Most people chasing a goal aren’t more gifted than the person next to them — they’ve just decided what actually matters and stopped giving energy to everything else. That’s focus. Not doing more. Doing less, better, on purpose. Distraction is…
“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…
“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”~ W. L. Watkinson, 1907 (condensed) ~ Some days the dark shows up uninvited. A rough week. A friend who’s hurting. News that makes you want to hide under a rock…deep in the forest where no one can find you. Don’t wait for the…
“The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.”~ Socrates ~ I call my higher power God. Good Orderly Direction. That’s my term. That’s what works for me.Whatever you call yours — sub it in. Adonai, Allah, Buddha, Creator, Father, Higher Power, Jesus Christ, The Universe — it doesn’t matter to me. What matters is…
“Fellowship is heaven; lack of fellowship is hell.”~ William Morris ~ True fellowship has become a lost art in this world. Not networking, not being in the same space as somebody while you’re both looking down — real fellowship. Interacting with your fellows on a human level. That ability hasn’t gone anywhere. It’s still there,…