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November 19 2011

"In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unamended in the world. Do not focus on that. There is a tendency too to fall into being weakened by persevering on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is spending the wind, without raising the sails.One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times."

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

September 24 2011

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"Social good is not a world owned by saints and martyrs, nor is it defined by the scale of the problem you’re hoping to solve. Social good is everybody’s, and it happens each time we do something a little better, a little greener, and a little more considerately than the people before us."

From You and Your Meaningless Career in Advertising. More here.

September 6 2011

"Sometimes you have to act as if acting will make a difference, even when you can’t prove that it will."

Michael Pollan

April 17 2011

How To Steal Like An Artist (and nine other things nobody told me)

Many, many things to stay reminded of here.

December 21 2010

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

Margaret Mead

November 3 2010

My son is gay

“Or he’s not. I don’t care. He is still my son. And he is 5. And I am his mother. And if you have a problem with anything mentioned above, I don’t want to know you.”

I like Boo’s mom. She tells the story of her son’s Halloween costume, or more specifically, the reactions to it. Read it here.

September 15 2010

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Silver-Lined Heart

“…But as far as what soothes me, what inspires and moves me,
honesty behooves me to tell you your rage doesn’t move me.
See, like the darkest of clouds my heart has a silver lining,
which does not harken to the loudest whining,
but beats and stirs and grows ever more
when I learn of the things you’re actually for.

That’s why I’m for best friends, long drives, and smiles,
nothing but the sound of thinking for miles…”

-Silver-Lined Heart by Taylor Mali. Read the poem here.

July 6 2010

We are what we choose

“…will you take pride in your gifts or pride in your choices?”

That and other good questions to ask yourself here.

April 29 2010

How to start a movement. (can’t see a video above? watch it here)