July 17, 2025 ~ Ronald Reagan:
When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
July 08, 2025 ~ Margarel Renkl:
Change is always a source of dislocation, but if nature teaches us anything, it's that nothing prevents the passage of time, the turning of the seasons.
July 01, 2025 ~ quote of the week...shared by Sandy :
"Turn your face up to the sky. Listen. The world is reminding us that this is what the world does best. New life. Rebirth. The greenness that rises out of ashes." ~ Margaret Renkl
June 25, 2025
"Change only happens when ordinary people get involved, get engaged and come together to demand it." ~Former President Barack Obama
June 18, 2025
"The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books." ~Nicholas Kristof
June 09, 2025
"Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs:
The future can be better than the present and I have the power to make it so."
~David Brooks
May 26, 2025
"Don't try to force the country back to an earlier more willfully oblivious era when the topic of inequality was everywhere to be witnessed but nowhere to be mentioned. That is a kind of barbarity."
~John McWhorter
May12, 2025
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones that we've been waiting for. We are the change we seek."
~ Former President Barack Obama
May 01, 2025
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
April 22, 2025
"Hope springs eternal in the human breast." ~ Alexander Pope
April 17, 2025
"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains." ~ Anne Frank
April 02, 2025
"As long as there is humanity, there will be challenges to who we are and how we are seeing. As long as we are willing to be aggressive storytellers, as long as we are willing to write that next chapter... we can keep fighting for good, fighting for better and fighting for one another." ~Stacey Abrams
March 31, 2025
"One of the reasons we're lonely is that we've cut ourselves off from the non-human world and have called this progress. Numerous encounters in nature are moments of reconnection, part of the human search for reciprocal love." ~Barry Lopez, author
March 10, 2025
"We don't know what will happen, but we know this: Even the bitterest winter doesn't last forever. Spring is coming." ~Margaret Renkl
March 04, 2025
"Recognizing that we maintain agency fuels hope, and maintaining hope reminds that we have agency. Resilience comes down to a few core factors; leaning into community, being kind to yourself...allowing yourself to feel sadness and loss and yet maintain hope at the same time. It requires a commitment to taking productive action." ~ Brad Stulberg, author
February 25, 2025
"In this moment, is it still possible to face the gathering darkness and say to the physical earth, and to all its creatures, including ourselves, fiercely and with out embarrassment, I love you, and to embrace fearlessly the burning world."
~ Barry Lopez
