Howdy from beautiful Georgetown, Texas, where Martha and I are visiting my folks. I am here doing a little work, but mostly I’m vacationing. And the little bit of work I’m doing, really feels like vacationing, so I am certainly not complaining! Just yesterday, for example, we had tea in Austin with two of the [...]
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An Invitation to Risk being Faithless
In the glorious poem, “The Invitation,” by Oriah Mountain Dreamer, there is a line that I have often questioned. And yesterday, while writing my post about feeling all my feelings, I think I came upon the answer, at least for me. The line is:
“I want to know… if you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.”
Does [...]
It’s My Birthday And I’ll Feel If I Want To…
Why is it that, at occasions such as birthdays, weddings, holidays, etc., we think we must feel only one thing, and that’s “happy?” (Or am I the only one that experiences this?)
Here it is, only a little after noon on my 49th birthday, and I’ve already had a nearly unquantifiable number of feelings, many of [...]
What Do I Know?
A few days ago, I wrote about how Willa Cather had a friend who encouraged her to “write what she knew.” It proved to be good advice, and led to a successful career for Willa, during which she wrote beautifully about the prairie life and its people. Pearl S. Buck did the same thing. She [...]
Wisdom from Wayne: “100% Of The Shots You DON’T Take DON’T Go In.”
So many of the risks we take, we often don’t even think of as risks: driving, going down the stairs without holding onto the railing (w/two rambunctious dogs a foot), and even getting out of bed, as one of my Beautiful Blogging Babes pointed out earlier, can be a risk.
But those don’t make for very [...]
RISK – What is it, and why take one?
The Definition
Over at www.dictionary.com here what they say:
noun – exposure to the chance of injury or loss; a hazard or dangerous chance: “It’s not worth the risk.”
verb – to expose to the chance of injury or loss; hazard: “… to risk one’s life.”
I’d say that sums it up, generally. And yet, when it comes to [...]
At the Risk of Being Proud
First let me say that I already feel that, no matter what I say about this topic, it will be inadequate. (And now I hear a little voice saying, “You certainly will, with that attitude, Little Missy!” And she’s probably right, too, whoever she is.) But it’s really important to me, so I am writing [...]