overheard:

"subjugated people learn to game their oppressors"

quote of the week?

"I am God's workmanship, not yours.
do not alter, criticize, or judge"

good advice from y'all

 make sure you’re empowering people, not enabling them. Give a friend a fish, she’ll eat for a day; teach her to fish and she’ll dine for a lifetime.

another mom had a new version of what to do when life gives you lemons:

what to do while in the belly of the whale

by Dan Albergotti

Measure the walls. Count the ribs. Notch the long days.
Look up for blue sky through the spout. Make small fires
with the broken hulls of fishing boats. Practice smoke signals.
Call old friends, and listen for echoes of distant voices.
Organize your calendar. Dream of the beach. Look each way
for the dim glow of light. Work on your reports. Review
each of your life's ten million choices. Endure moments
of self-loathing. Find the evidence of those before you.
Destroy it. Try to be very quiet, and listen for the sound
of gears and moving water. Listen for the sound of your heart.
Be thankful that you are here, swallowed with all hope,
where you can rest and wait. Be nostalgic. Think of all
the things you did and could have done. Remember
treading water in the center of the still night sea, your toes
pointing again and again down, down into the black depths.

Remember,  Jonah moved on after three days...

Believing is seeing quote of the week

Lewis Carroll’s famous line from Alice in Wonderland, spoken by the Queen:
Why, sometimes, I’ve believed six impossible things before breakfast!”

quote of the week

let's accept ______ (fill in the blank) gay people until we find a cure.
PS sometimes, when we get mature enough, we learn to love all people.

don't be a scrudelnoggin

 quote of the week
 "When you marry the right woman, you are COMPLETE. When you marry the wrong woman, you are FINISHED. And when the right one catches you with the wrong one, you are COMPLETELY FINISHED!"

quote of the week

We need no more programs
We need relationships

favorite phrases of liars

"Why would I do that?"


It's a favorite stalling line of liars, so they can buy a little time to work out what to say next. These phrases also fit the bill: "What kind of person do you think I am?", "Are you calling me a liar?", and "I knew this would happen!"

a picture is worth 1,000 words

quote of the week

Blood is thicker than water. (we all agreed that money is thicker than blood)

Quote of the week

At the heart of every problem is a problem at the heart

Let's rock 2012

"What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year."
- Vern McLellan

Party quote (not mine) LOL

“Not being omniscient is a really big drag for me,”

Quoting Simon of Re-focus

The greatest thing any parent or teacher can give a child is the support to solve their own problems. The goal is not to force a kid who struggles to work harder at being like everyone else. The goal is help a kid who struggles to find a workaround for the specific thing that’s holding them back. The skills our children learn to overcome adversity when they are young will become their talents when they are older. And it is these talents that will invent and build the products and companies that will help and inspire the rest of us when they’re older.