Quotations on...

 "Our life experiences will equal what we have paid attention to, whether by choice or default." Williams James

“You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.” – 

Fred Rogers

“Not until we are lost, do we begin to find ourselves.” – Henry David Thoreau

 

 

October 22, 1853:

Consider what a vast crop is thus annually shed upon the earth. This, more than any mere grain or seed, is the great harvest of the year. This annual decay and death, this dying by inches…. The year’s great crop. They teach us how to die." Thoreau

 

“Attitudes are caught, not taught.”
—Fred Rogers

 

Jeff Tweedy mentioned this Dolly Parton philosophy in his memoir, Let’s Go (So We Can Come Back):

Dolly Parton once said that her advice to anyone wanting to be an artist was to “Find out who you are and then be that on purpose.” Or something like that. As I’ve gotten older, those are the people I find myself drawn to work with and stay close to. People who have figured out who they are and are good at being that on purpose.”

 From Erosion by Terry Tempest Williams

At a time when politics is so rancorous, so partisan, so blatantly tied to special interests, especially in the American West, where what is valued is what can be sold, the designation of Bears Ears National monument signifies a grace note in the centennial year of the National Park Service.

 The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.  - Emerson (from Corita.org)

You---special, miraculous, unrepeateable, fragile, fearful, tender, lost, sparkling ruby emerald jewel, rainbow splendor person---It's up to you.LB (from Corita.org)

 "The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence." - - Charles Bukowski