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Leonard Bernstein

4/17/2020

Components of Happiness

The love of learning
The power to praise
The capacity to change
The ability to love (+ to teach)
The gift of enjoyment
(The enjoyment of gifts)
The competence to speak (+ hear)
The competence to sing, dance (+ listen)
The wonder of understanding + being understood
The love of learning
The joy of gratitude

~ Leonard Bernstein, 1989

Quarantine Questions 2

4/15/2020

Daily Quarantine Questions

4/5/2020

I really like these questions from Brooke Anderson.

Walkers with the Dawn

3/27/2020

Walkers with the Dawn
by Langston Hughes

Being walkers with the dawn and morning,
Walkers with the sun and morning,
We are not afraid of night,
Nor days of gloom,
Nor darkness--
Being walkers with the sun and morning.

Before and After

3/20/2020

The title of Tom Friedman's column this week has resonated for me and my clients. We are all needing to reset our thinking and expectations from Before the Coronavirus to After Corona. What are we learning about ourselves? What new possibilities are there for us?

Our New Historical Divide: B.C. and A.C. — the World Before Corona and the World After
By Thomas L. Friedman
March 17, 2020

A Sicilian metaphor

11/22/2019

The empty bag doesn't stand

"U sac vacanti addetta un ci pó stari"

- Grandpa Totó from Agrigento to his kids

Which Gen?

10/1/2019

A very nice testimonial

5/2/2019

I meet with my own life coach once a month, a comforting cadence that works for me. She is my resource, and knowing she’s there for me monthly to help me find or refocus on what’s important to me calms my anxiety. (She helps me do this by asking targeted questions, and I find my own clarity as a result). I appreciate my coach for being a sounding board for how I’m feeling or viewing the world. This is important because by being able to see difficult situations through different perspectives, I can also see what else is possible… which then drives my decision-making.

Self

2/1/2019

You'll find that as you grow old, you stop bothering to hide the self you've been all along. I aspire to that every day.
-Charles Frazier, Varina

Making Gratitude Real

12/5/2018

I like the app, Get Grateful, for recording my gratitudes. It is easy to use and colorful, too.

In this article, Christine Carter explains the importance of gratitudes.

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