This week, I actually put information into my new day planner. Not much, just a little task list, which, after a day, I've been able to go halfway through with checkmarks.
This week's day planner "theme" is Success. It is accompanied by a picture of an empty canoe, in serene waters, with snowy-looking mountains in the background. The quote reads: Success is not reached by chance - it is reached by choice.
It occurred to me tonight that I've forgotten what I used to spend my Internet time on, in the days before Facebook became the Centre of the Universe. Obviously, I blogged a lot more. But I also read blogs, and sought out sources of interesting information, and looked for ways to grow into who I'm meant to be. Must get back to that, I think.
Many of the blogs I read are written by incredibly insightful individuals who also happen to have a gift with the written word. Today, on two of those blogs, I found phrases that "struck" me - phrases that said to me, "There! That's exactly it!" And then I wondered if I would ever be able to put words together in quite that way, if I would ever be able to take someone's breath away with a thought expressed. On two entirely different topics.
From Dooce: (some paraphrasing mine)
And however asinine it sounds, it helped yesterday thinking that you were sent to me for very specific reasons, that something inside of me is supposed to be called upon in regard to who you are as a person... And maybe I'm the one who is supposed to be able to see through all that...And not just because we are bound together by blood...It's a comforting albeit fantastical thought that maybe you knew before I did that you'd really need me. So just in case, I want you to know that I'm honored you had so much faith that I was up to the task.
She is talking about her daughter, and though her reasons (and her daughter) may be different from any of mine, this is exactly how I feel sometimes. Only I didn't know it.
And from Joshilyn Jackson:
...because in terms of how we choose to live and make the earth a better place or a worse one, how OLD the dirt we make these choices on matters not a whit.
How do they DO that?
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