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Fun and Inspiration

Great ideas, it has been said, come into to world as gently as doves. Perhaps, then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear, amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope.

-- Albert Camus

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
-- Teddy Roosevelt

Mine is the mysticism of everyday life, of the heaped laundry and the bruised toe, of overcooked broccoli and leaves spangled with dew, of sunrise and sorrow, laughter and linguine, music and mold. This everyday mysticism requires no special powers, only imagination, a doting and practiced attention to the ordinary, a willingness to be surprised by grace. -- Philip Simmons, from "Learning to Fall"

True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of your heart broken all the way open.
-- Gangaji

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
--Audre Lord

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

-- Bertrand Russell

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
-- William James

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it - always.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the deeper our love, the more pain its loss will bring; these are a few of the paradoxes we must hold as human beings. If we refuse to hold them in hopes of living without doubt, despair and pain, we also find ourselves living without faith, hope and love.

--Parker J. Palmer, from "A Hidden Wholeness "

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
-- Rev. Howard Thurman

Our Dog Ceili (pronounced Kay-lee)

Matt and Liz with Ceili

Matt and Liz in New Zealand

Me and Mom hot tubbing in Florida

My big brother Bob with Juliana, his first grandchild