“We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.” ~ David Lynch I am not convinced that I will ever understand all of the rules by which I live. Although, it is important to remember that “understand” is not the same as “agree [...]
From You Can’t Make Lawyers into Techies: 3 Lessons About LPM: Certainly, lawyers are not Luddites, determined to resist progress and deny any change. It’s that they are lawyers, not IT types. So that’s Lesson One: You can’t make lawyers talk IT; IT has to learn to talk lawyer. Lesson Two is that lawyers insist [...]
From the UK Guardian, a nurse polled dying patients for their regrets. The top five results were: I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings. I [...]
From Nathaniel Hawthorne’s journal, published as American Notebooks (1835-42): September 1, 1842. Mr. Thoreau dined with us yesterday…. He is a keen and delicate observer of nature–a genuine observer–which, I suspect, is almost as rare a character as even an original poet; and Nature, in return for his love, seems to adopt him as her [...]
The Elusive Big Idea – NYTimes.com. In the past, we collected information not simply to know things. That was only the beginning. We also collected information to convert it into something larger than facts and ultimately more useful — into ideas that made sense of the information. We sought not just to apprehend the world [...]
One: Last night, Lindsey and I finished watching The Apartment starring Jack Lemon. It won five Academy Awards in 1960 and has a handful of good quotes. Here are a few: J.D. Sheldrake: Ya know, you see a girl a couple of times a week, just for laughs, and right away they think you’re gonna [...]
Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken” hung on the wall of the house in which I grew up. Here it is, so that I can remember it as one of the influential details of my life. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, [...]
Today I am inspired by Walt Disney – “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them”. I am praying that Chris and I have the courage to pursue our dream of having a beautiful home where we can raise Yogi for now, and someday a family. I have always [...]
I am not the greatest with words….but these sum it up pretty well I love the way you make me so happy, And the ways you show you care. I love the way you say, “I Love You,” And the way you’re always there. ~ Crystal Jansen
The following quote caught my attention today: This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. [...]