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Posted in Quotes on Feb 29th, 2008
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a [...]
Posted in Communication, Peacemaking on Feb 28th, 2008
Pain looks different from the inside than it does from the outside.
From the inside when we act out in pain, we see ourselves as victims. From the outside, when we act out in pain, we look like monsters.
Outsiders who haven’t lived through a similar kind of suffering don’t see the pain; they see the actions.
The [...]
Posted in Quotes on Feb 27th, 2008
Before me peaceful
Behind me peaceful
Under me peaceful
Around me peaceful
– From the Navajo War God’s Horse Song
Sometimes when I’m scared or stressed out, I recite this to myself. I found it a book about teaching poetry to children when I was an elementary school teacher years ago. Except the way I remembered it was like [...]
“The word ‘love’ is so overused in our culture today and frequently misunderstood. I do believe, however, that the fountainhead or foundation for success in [...]
Posted in Communication on Feb 26th, 2008
Back in the early days when Kathy and I weren’t getting along, I read her blog a lot. A lot. And her book, too.
A stepmom blogger recently found from watching her blog stats that her stepkids’ mom was reading her blog, and that she was visiting the blogs of the stepmoms she linked to. [...]
Posted in Quotes on Feb 26th, 2008
“[W]hen you do not seek or need external approval, you are at your most powerful… You cannot live for prolonged periods of time within the polarity of being true to yourself and needing the approval of others.” –Caroline Myss
Posted in Miscellaneous on Feb 25th, 2008
Me: “I’m going to do some yoga in the living room when we get home, so –”
Jack: “So don’t interrupt you?”
Me: “Yeah! That would be nice. I was going to say ‘please don’t make fun of me,’ but not interrupting me would be nice, too.”
Jack: “Why would I make fun of you? It’s only funny [...]
Posted in Parenting on Feb 25th, 2008
Fighting entropy might look like room cleaning to an outside observer, but to a tween-age boy, there’s a difference. “Fight entropy!” makes a half decent battle cry, and while you’re doing it you can imagine yourself combating a villain or undermining a dark force of chaos. You could almost be wearing a cape while you’re [...]
Posted in Quotes on Feb 25th, 2008
“Do not weep. Do not wax indignant. Understand.” — Baruch Spinoza
Get Out of My Life, but first could you drive me and Cheryl to the mall? by Anthony E. Wolf
“You need confidence, and not confidence that you are making the right decision — nobody can do that — or that you are always in control of the kid — nobody can even come close to [...]
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