"The antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest .... The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness."
Brother David

Oh, how I long to believe this, and find my wholeheartedness. Blogging just isn't doing it for me, but it's a start.

"In the last decade or so, science has discovered a tremendous amount about the role emotions play in our lives. Researchers have found that even more than IQ, your emotional awareness and abilities to handle feelings will determine your success and happiness in all walks of life, including family relationships."
John Gottman
Emotional Intelligence

Too late for some of us.

"Looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
An thinking of the days that are no more."
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

After a wordless (long) weekend, I'm back.

“In the beginning of heaven and earth there were no words, words came out of the womb of matter"
Lao Tzu

"The world’s troubles are your troubles … and there is nothing wrong with the world that better human beings cannot fix."
John Sloan Dickey


I'm working on both at the moment...fixing the world's troubles and being a better human being. Of course, Obama has me beat in both categories, but hey , thank god for that.

‘’surprised and deeply humbled”
Barack Obama on winning a Nobel Peace Prize


But I hope he's also pleased. I am pleased for him, and for us.

"CAVEAT EMPTOR."


It's worth learning Latin to learn the meaning, literal and educational, of this popular saying.
But, if you're busy learning other languages at the moment, the translation is "BUYER BEWARE".
How true it is since the beginning of time.