The lesson here is to do as Mark Twain suggested: ‘Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour.’
The men who show up without being asked, who stay up even when they’re exhausted. The men who have fierce respect for their mothers, and wouldn’t be caught dead having her do their laundry – or paying their bills. This is for the men who know that choosing […]
We’ve become so isolated and it’s hard to know how to get back. It’s so hard to know how to even begin to build the kind of relationships our hearts need.
I asked a friend who is heading towards his eightieth birthday what sort of changes he is feeling in himself? He sent me the following: 1. After loving my parents, my siblings, my spouse, my children and my friends, I have now started loving myself. 2. I have […]
I will never forget the expression on my teenage sons’ faces when I suggested they share a hotel bed when we were motoring through Europe. Both looked at me like I was something they had scraped off the bottom of their shoe.
MAKE READING INSPIRING AGAIN ~ A very poor man lived with his wife. One day, his wife, who had very long hair asked him to buy her a comb for her hair to grow well and to be well-groomed. The man felt very sorry and said no. He […]
MAKE READING COMPASSIONATE AGAIN My dear girl, the day you see I’m getting old, I ask you to please be patient, but most of all, try to understand what I’m going through. If when we talk, I repeat the same thing a thousand times, don’t interrupt to say: […]
The presence of God in everyday life: I was just one of millions of poor kids when I was growing up. I was insignificant to everyone but to myself. My cash-starved mom used to send me to birthday parties with no present just so I could get something […]
MA VOURNEEN . When time and distance separate us, Then you will find the spirit of our togetherness, In a glass of wine. My darling, Make it a long-stemmed glass, To remind you that even the minute apart is the longest one. Fill it to its very brim […]
ENCOUNTERS WITH HUMANITY: It’s a very strange feeling how someone can be in your life for months or even years and then one day … all of a sudden not be there anymore. Maybe the relationship ended on good terms…. or maybe it was completely catastrophic. Either way, […]
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