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Inspiration for the Week

"Pain is weakness leaving the body."
U.S. Marine Corps

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Happy Merry Rama-Chanu-KwanzMasTice
OR
ChristmaSolKwanziHanukAdan
whichever you observe!!

Inspiration for the Week

"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It is beyond me.

But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall. Against a wall in company with other bags, white, red and yellow. Pour out the contents, and there is discovered a jumble of small things priceless and worthless. A first-water diamond, an empty spool, bits of broken glass, lengths of string, a key to a door long since crumbled away, a rusty knife-blade, old shoes saved for a road that never was and never will be, a nail bent under the weight of things too heavy for any nail, a dried flower or two still a little fragrant. In your hand is the brown bag. On the ground before you is the jumble it held — so much like the jumble in the bags, could they be emptied, that all might be dumped in a single heap and the bags refilled without altering the content of any greatly. A bit of colored glass more or less would not matter. Perhaps that is how the Great Stuffer of Bags filled them in the first place — who knows?"

* Zora Neale Hurston, "How It Feels to Be Colored Me," The World Tomorrow (May 1928)

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or...
How to Start a Winter Break Off the Right Way!By passing out on the couch after your third episode of "How It's Made" and avoiding folding laundry (again!)

Inspiration for the Week

"To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives.
Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day.
Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought.
And Number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy.
But think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special."
* Jim Valvano, NC State Basketball Coach, 1980-1990

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Couldn't decide between this
and this
Both from a conference in SC last Dec.

Inspiration for the Week

WARNING: view this only if you're ready for a good cry.
Devon Gundry - "Armed" from Justin Baldoni on Vimeo.

Inspiration for the Week

"In the practice of tolerance
one's enemy is the best teacher."
* The Dalai Lama