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Archive for July 4, 2019
This week’s inspiring video: Good and Bad Are Incomplete Stories We Tell Ourselves
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Video of the Week
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Jul 04, 2019 |
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Good and Bad Are Incomplete Stories We Tell Ourselves
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| Essayist and poet Heather Lanier challenges our assumptions about what makes a life "good" or "bad." After her daughter was born with a rare genetic condition that results in developmental delays, she learned over time that she could see Fiona’s differences as bad or she could let go of the idea that developmental disabilities are bad and could watch her daughter’s life as it unfolded, with openness and curiosity, and see it for what it is: beautiful, complicated, joyful, hard, basically just another expression of human experience. As she says, "My kid is human. That’s all. And that’s a lot." |
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If one person believes in you, youre okay.
– Barbara Ganzkow –
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Flying the Big Ones
“I used to be a flight attendant with TWA back in 1970. They almost wouldn’t hire me as a flight attendant because I was really tiny, like 105 pounds. They didn’t feel like I could even do that job, let alone, later on, wrestle around a stretch DC-8, a 727 or a 747.” She proved them wrong, and after she turned 50, she became one of 40 women pilots in commercial aviation along 150,000 men. { read more }
Be The Change
“I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow.” So says Marissa Mayer. It’s worth keeping this principle in mind. What is something you are “a little not ready to do?” |
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Sangha of Auspicious Companions 