Inspiration
My friend Caren Libby posted a beautiful photograph on LinkedIn last week — a meadow with Black-Eyed Susans in full bloom. (That’s the photo above.) In her post, Caren wrote, āI stumbled across this lovely burst of blossoms in the John F. Kennedy trail in Forest Park.ā I loved the post, and I shared it.…
While on vacation in 1986, a future legend bought a coat in Jackson, Wyoming that changed his life. John wasnāt a legend yet. He was a sales consultant, vacationing in cowboy country. The coat was a full-length āduster.ā The kind of coat real cowboys wear. John saw the coat, hanging in the back of Schaefer…
I attended a yoga class last week. First time ever. I worked muscles and tendons that hadnāt stretched since the Reagan administration. Some of those muscles protested mildly. Others screamed, āYouāve got to be kidding me!ā Our instructor, Jessica, asked us to bend at the waist and touch the ground. She spotted me in my…
Thereās a movie I like called The Muse. Albert Brooks plays a screenwriter named Steven Phillips who has lost his āedge.ā Everyone says heās past his prime. So Steven gets a Muse. Not a figurative muse. A literal muse — as in a real-life Greek goddess, a daughter of Zeus. Her name is Sarah Little (Sharon…
I met a remarkable woman yesterday. Her name is Sarah Walugembe. She lives in Uganda. Her mom left her when she was two months old. Her dad died a few years later. She married when she was 14. She thought marriage was her ticket to a better life. But her husband was a bad man.…
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