Choose to focus your time, energy, and conversation around people who inspire you, support you, and help you to grow into your happiest, strongest, wisest self. ~ Karen Salmansohn We all commit to things, as part of our personal and professional lives, that require a lot of our time for no immediate return on investment. Attending meetings, reviewing manuscripts, sitting

Being patient does not mean “grin and bear it.” Instead of reacting suddenly, we could chew it, smell it, look at it, and open ourselves to seeing what’s there. ~ Pema Chödrön I am in a holding pattern…at 840 feet above sea level. For a person who is on the go all day long, waiting feels like constant tension; not having an

“You may delay, but time will not” ~Benjamin Franklin I will always remember asking my Dad a question about taking a family trip in early June 2000 and his haunting response: “Let’s see what July 1st brings.” He died July 1, 2000. 56 years young. Dad wasn’t one to put things off. He accomplished a lot in his life, but

“It was the day of the worms. That first almost-warm, after-the-rainy-night day in April, when you bolt from your house to find yourself in a world of worms…the sidewalks, the streets. The very places where they didn’t belong. Forlorn, marooned on concrete and asphalt, no place to burrow, April’s orphans.” ~ Jerry Spinelli Worms. As a child, they terrified me –