May Bits and Clips
I hope you find something in the following links and copious memes that inspires, educates, encourages, motivates, amuses, or informs you:
Month: May 2019
Repercussions of Radiance in the Soul (Lao-tsu quote)
Starting with your own radiance, there is a chain reaction of good rippling out to the farthest reaches of the universe.
We Cleaned Out Our Garage! (Before and After Photos)
We spent Memorial Day working hard on a miracle garage makeover, and unearthing family furniture for our daughter’s new apartment.Check out these photos!
Broiled Scallops (Recipe)
I made these broiled scallops this weekend and they were a revelation.This is very easy, quick, scalable for a crowd, all done at the same time, and hard to do wrong, and not a mess or a danger for anyone. And just as delicious!
Grace Notes #20 (with Photos)
I am furthering my ongoing goal of appreciating such a continuous, overflowing abundance of random good.
Mysteries (Poem by Mary Oliver)
Let me keep company always with those who say
“Look!” and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads.
Newspaper Article on Compassion by Polly Castor
Often the idea of compassion is mixed up with the words sympathy and pity. I would describe the difference this way.
No Universal Path to Success (Quote by John Arnold)
The unfortunate truth is that advice is almost always driven by anecdotal experience, and thus has limited value and relevance.
Linchpin (Book Review)
This book is about you living up to your potential and becoming indispensable for exactly your own unique gifts. Who doesn’t want that?
Other Graduation Weekend Photos (Including a Few Bloopers)
And maybe more than anything, it was a joy to see our daughters’ love for each other in their complete and total delight at being together.
Our Graduate’s Lovely Church Sendoff
The State College Christian Science church has been loving and supportive, and has made a big, positive difference in our daughter’s college experience.
Our Younger Daughter Graduates with Honors
We are so proud of our younger daughter who graduated with honors and a special medal of distinction today from Juniata College.
Our Daughter’s Ceramic Capstone Show at the Museum
Yesterday we got to see our youngest daughter’s senior capstone ceramics in the college’s museum.
Paint the Bird (Book Review)
It is not a fun read, and is R-rated in places, but the metaphors ring poetic on the rebound. The main characters are a disillusioned aging African American minister who who picks up an artist at a bar whose HIV positive gay son has just died.
We Have the Mind of Christ (Polly Preaching #3)
“What does it even mean to be prepared to ‘receive Christ?’ Christ is the perfect reflection of God, the complete effect of the one Cause, which we all intrinsically include. The Christ is not…
Don’t Block Your Unique Expression (Martha Graham quote)
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is…