take a chance...

It's a little late...but I thought that it might be nice to wrap up the week with a little quote...

"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave." -Mary Tyler Moore

And have a fabulous weekend.

snow

"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make." Marian Wright Edelman

In light of this quote, I actually have an assignment for you...a way that you can make a small daily difference right now. Your assignment--make a snowflake.

To do this, go here: http://www.popularfront.com/snowdays/index.html?id=3190692 --your snowflake will benefit the Salvation Army.

Virtual snow never looked so beautiful.

all you need is...

So, I think I am finally getting back into the swing of things after our little Thanksgiving break, and I finally have a quote for you:

"I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people." --Antonia Brenner

I just thought this was a good thing to consider, as we are approaching the holiday season, when most of our attention tends to be focused on things: the gifts we want to receive, the gifts we want to give, etc. What would Christmas/Hannukah/Kwanzaa/Festivus/etc. look like, if the only thing we hoped to receive was love, and if the only thing we tried to give others was love?

I'll tell ya one thing, the traffic around the mall would be a heck of a lot lighter...and we would all be richer, in more ways than one...