The bird that makes,
It's first time flight
Knows the secret of success
So does the blossoming flower
That burst forth in happiness..
The foal that walks on shaky legs
Knows what achievement means
Its the joy that comes
from fulfillment of your dearest hopes and dreams..
In 1990, after 14 years being a single parent, I remarried.
This did not create major stress for my 3 sons. But it was a big adjustment. I waited for a sign that they are completely comfortable with this major adjustment in their life.
One night, my boys were going out together after dinner. Turn by turn, they kissed me good night. When it's time to approach my new husband, Marty, I expected the normal round of handshakes. Instead, Michael, then Tom and Tim went to Marty and hugged him for the first time. They have finally accepted their new step father.
Suddenly, I remembered the evenings long ago when I had huddled with 3 frightened youngsters. Wrestling with the impact of divorce, they had learned some basic rules for coping with life many changes and challenges. They had done well. They could handle whatever came their way. That's the most that any parent could ask for..
'Heart talk' shows care in action and builds friendship.
As you learn to see everyone as your friend, and not as an enemy, you release all judgments. Just keep your heart open to your friends as you listen to them...
A friend in need of a soul to hold
Looks to their friends with unshielded hopes
They know they're heard and cared for..
That's a friend.
I look at myself in the mirror each day
And when I feel the world has let me down
I know I'm strong, smart, and I care
And I have you standing by my side.
Listening without judging..
That's a friend
'Each day, I am reborn. Each day i must begin again',cellist Pablo Casals said at 93.
'For the past 80 years, I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine, but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and I play 2 preludes and fugues of Bach. It is a rediscovery of the world, of which i enjoyed being a part. It makes me aware of the wonders of life and marveled at the wonderful feeling of being a human being.
The music is never the same to me, Never. Everyday is something new, fantastic and unbelievable.
A man's words and acts are only a little part of a person's life.
His real life is led in his head and is known to none but himself.
All day long, the mill in his mind is grinding and his thoughts are his actual history.
These are his life, which are not written and cannot be written.
What he did, what skeletons are hidden in his closets are his alone. The world may judge a man at fault for doing something but there might be a good reason behind his act that is known only to him alone.
A day in a person's life would make a book of 80000 words (that is 365 books a year).
Biographies are only the clothes and buttons on a man.
The real biography of a man, remember, cannot be written.
-Mark Twain-
