The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come. --Bruce Feiler, "The Stories that Bind Us", New … Continue reading Quote for Today: Bruce Feiler
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Quote for Today: Colleen Hoover
I know my mouth is agape and my eyes are wide, but I'm relieved that hope isn't a tangible thing, because everyone around me would see mine crumbling. ―Colleen Hoover, Hopeless Public Domain image via Max Pixel
Quote for Today: Diana T. Scott
He was really trying to be my friend, without all the emotional baggage we both carried - mine still with me, but carefully folded in vacuum bags so they'd occupy as little room as possible and his, hanging on his shoulders like lead armor, making him slouch sometimes. And yet, as pinned down … Continue reading Quote for Today: Diana T. Scott
A Strange Authenticity: The Spirit of Johnson Mesa
How do we recharge when the world becomes too much to endure? Seeking different sights and sounds can help. Near Raton, New Mexico, a small, shabby town along I-25, a place where you can buy tobacco and school supplies on the same grocery aisle, lies Johnson Mesa. The mesa dominates the area to the east … Continue reading A Strange Authenticity: The Spirit of Johnson Mesa
Quote for Today: Stephen Carpenter
People always talk about how hard it can be to remember things - where they left their keys, or the name of an acquaintance - but no one ever talks about how much effort we put into forgetting. I am exhausted from the effort to forget... There are things that have to be forgotten … Continue reading Quote for Today: Stephen Carpenter
Quote for Today: Brian Selznick
"Did you ever notice that all machines are made for some reason?" he asked Isabelle. "They are built to make you laugh, like the mouse here, or to tell the time, like clocks, or to fill you with wonder like the automaton. Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because … Continue reading Quote for Today: Brian Selznick
Quote for Today: Marty Rubin
We are the mountains we must cross. ―Marty Rubin
