I’m beginning to see something.
The fortunes inside fortune cookies are being written
by people who have a vested interest in cookie sales.
For example, today’s Fortune Cookie message:
” Be good to yourself. Dessert
three times per week is OK.… —-> Continue…
Many years ago I heard a story
about a letter Abraham Lincoln
had written to one of his generals
at some point during the Civil War.
From what I recall, the general had
been hesitant at a time when
immediate decisive action was
needed to achieve a victory,
and because of his delays and
decisions a defeat seemed eminent.… —-> Continue…
Being open to the opportunity
that every encounter and
experience has to offer
Looking back upon so much that
at the time seemed such trash -
now seen for the treasure it was;
a Gift instead of garbage.
This is our Life – make it a love,
no matter what the moments bring;
cherish that you were here for them…
“Will you be a pallbearer?” he asked me.
I looked at him – not understanding the question.
A pallbearer is someone who helps carry a casket
at a funeral, and we weren’t having a funeral.
We were just… we were just here.… —-> Continue…
The biggest key to growing and going
beyond where you are is to realize
that you only know what you know.
Everything…
EVERYTHING that we know
we didn’t know until we did.
It is one of the simplest yet profound truths,
yet so many overlook it and choose to
view the things around them through
the mirror of the past rather than
the looking glass of the present.… —-> Continue…
The other night I found myself in a Shari’s
I had never been before, and was inspired
by an example of living unreasonably.
There was a man & woman sitting at the booth
diagonally across from me, and I couldn’t help
but be inspired when she ordered.… —-> Continue…
Last week I’m at the store walking
around an aisle when all of a sudden,
a line from a movie pops in my head;
“I see dead people,
only they don’t know they’re dead.”
(this is my paraphrased version -
I haven’t seen the movie in 7+ years)
To which my mind echoed back this,
and it’s been haunting me ever since:
“I see great people,
only they don’t know they’re great…”
It took me a week to write this piece
because I don’t know how to convince
someone who doesn’t already know it.… —-> Continue…
