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Saturday, August 5, 2017
Monday, March 27, 2017
day94: have passport ready and waiting!
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other,
we may even become friends.
Maya Angelou
I can not stress enough the importance of travel;
going abroad, living in different climates and cultures, figuring out how to navigate not know the native language, trying different foods and flavors.
Traveling offers so much to the traveler and to their own native country upon their return. as Maya Angelou so explains in her quote, by traveling one sees the common thread of humanity.
I can not stress enough the importance of travel;
going abroad, living in different climates and cultures, figuring out how to navigate not know the native language, trying different foods and flavors.
Traveling offers so much to the traveler and to their own native country upon their return. as Maya Angelou so explains in her quote, by traveling one sees the common thread of humanity.
I also believe that traveling exposes us to uncomfortable situations that help us to expand our empathy and compassion for those who are different. I believe if you are ever in a situation where you can not understand the language, even the most basic information is unattainable to you, that you will be more understanding of others who are having difficulties, be it with language, culture or customs.
Take advantage of any travel opportunity, abroad or here at home. The United States offers many different cultures and cuisines within its own borders. However I do believe there is something profound about not standing on your native land, physically being out of your comfort/native zone.
I also believe it is important and a good practice to learn hello, please and thank you in the native tongue of the country that you are visiting! (merci)
Below is the poem Gate A-4, Naomi Shihab Nye (1952)
I feel as this poem addresses some of the reasons I believe it is so important to travel. Enjoy, love, mom.
Gate A-4
Naomi Shihab Nye, 1952
Wandering around the Albuquerque Airport Terminal, after learning
my flight had been delayed four hours, I heard an announcement:
“If anyone in the vicinity of Gate A-4 understands any Arabic, please
come to the gate immediately.”
Well—one pauses these days. Gate A-4 was my own gate. I went there.
An older woman in full traditional Palestinian embroidered dress, just
like my grandma wore, was crumpled to the floor, wailing. “Help,"
said the flight agent. “Talk to her. What is her problem? We
told her the flight was going to be late and she did this.”
I stooped to put my arm around the woman and spoke haltingly.
“Shu-dow-a, Shu-bid-uck Habibti? Stani schway, Min fadlick, Shu-bit-
se-wee?” The minute she heard any words she knew, however poorly
used, she stopped crying. She thought the flight had been cancelled
entirely. She needed to be in El Paso for major medical treatment the
next day. I said, “No, we’re fine, you’ll get there, just later, who is
picking you up? Let’s call him.”
We called her son, I spoke with him in English. I told him I would
stay with his mother till we got on the plane and ride next to
her. She talked to him. Then we called her other sons just
for the fun of it. Then we called my dad and he and she spoke for a while
in Arabic and found out of course they had ten shared friends. Then I
thought just for the heck of it why not call some Palestinian poets I know
and let them chat with her? This all took up two hours.
She was laughing a lot by then. Telling of her life, patting my knee,
answering questions. She had pulled a sack of homemade mamool
cookies—little powdered sugar crumbly mounds stuffed with dates and
nuts—from her bag—and was offering them to all the women at the gate.
To my amazement, not a single woman declined one. It was like a
sacrament. The traveler from Argentina, the mom from California, the
lovely woman from Laredo—we were all covered with the same powdered
sugar. And smiling. There is no better cookie.
And then the airline broke out free apple juice from huge coolers and two
little girls from our flight ran around serving it and they
were covered with powdered sugar, too. And I noticed my new best friend—
by now we were holding hands—had a potted plant poking out of her bag,
some medicinal thing, with green furry leaves. Such an old country tradi-
tion. Always carry a plant. Always stay rooted to somewhere.
And I looked around that gate of late and weary ones and I thought, This
is the world I want to live in. The shared world. Not a single person in that
gate—once the crying of confusion stopped—seemed apprehensive about
any other person. They took the cookies. I wanted to hug all those otherwomen, too.
This can still happen anywhere. Not everything is lost.
Naomi Shihab Nye, “Gate A-4” from Honeybee. Copyright © 2008 by Naomi Shihab Nye.
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Wednesday, March 1, 2017
day93: you have the right to feel safe!!!
You have the RIGHT,
the responsibility, in fact,
the OBLIGATION to yourself
to feel/be safe,
to be respected,
to be heard,
to feel good about who you are and what you do!
If there are people in your life that challenge any of these rights,
you have the obligation to either walk away from this toxic person/relationship, or if you can't leave the situation, then you need to get help from someone who has power in the situation.
You have every right to ask for and receive what is due to you. In our society, we are still burdened with the theory that a woman is a bitch if she demands to be treated fairly and stands up for herself. these views are changing, but there is a long way to go and with the current political landscape, women have been dealt a major setback.
So I want you to remember that you have every right to feel safe, heard, appreciated, respected, and I hope you are fortunate enough to feel loved, by other people than ME!! Because I am sure you know that I LOVE you both to the moon and then to infinity!!!
love, mom
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Saturday, December 3, 2016
day78: live deeper ...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
day59: you are gifted so follow those gifts ...
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that?
We must have perseverance and, above all,
confidence in ourselves.
We must believe that we are gifted for something,
and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
Marie Curie
Find you gifts and passions and then follow them!!
It won't always be easy and you may need to make some sacrifices along the way,
but if you don't follow your heart you will become resentful, negative and most likely depressed. So in the big picture, following your dreams is the prudent choice.
love, mom
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Wednesday, October 19, 2016
day :52 learn from your missteps ...
Don't be afraid to fail.
Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure.
Learn from your failures and
go on to the next challenge.
It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.
Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure.
Learn from your failures and
go on to the next challenge.
It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.
Anne Sullivan
'mistakes are opportunities' was something that David Lang would like to tell his students, and he is correct. If you don't get flattened by the idea that you didn't get something right or you got a bad grade or you failed, if you don't get stuck is a cycle of self pity, self criticism or depression then you can use these experiences as just that, experiences!! Experiences from which to learn, grow and explore.
With the current attachment to success, and with all the standardized testing and the high emphasize on GPAs and grades, the path to real learning has become blurred. If someone is choosing to not take a challenging class because it might hurt their GPA, then there is something significantly wrong about the system!!
Knowledge and learning should be the main goal, and if you are really learning, really growing then you better be goofing up and making mistakes. Learning is not a straight line, it is messy, it is unclear, it is making mistakes and learning from this. And this is true for all of life, just not the classroom.
So when you stumble, don't fall down and stay down, don't waste your energy beating ourself up or trying to mask your mistake. Own your failures and learn from them!! What is important to me is that you learn and discover what really excites you and what doesn't.
It may seem safer to play it safe and stay within the lines,
but that is not where you will real live!
love, mom
'mistakes are opportunities' was something that David Lang would like to tell his students, and he is correct. If you don't get flattened by the idea that you didn't get something right or you got a bad grade or you failed, if you don't get stuck is a cycle of self pity, self criticism or depression then you can use these experiences as just that, experiences!! Experiences from which to learn, grow and explore.
With the current attachment to success, and with all the standardized testing and the high emphasize on GPAs and grades, the path to real learning has become blurred. If someone is choosing to not take a challenging class because it might hurt their GPA, then there is something significantly wrong about the system!!
Knowledge and learning should be the main goal, and if you are really learning, really growing then you better be goofing up and making mistakes. Learning is not a straight line, it is messy, it is unclear, it is making mistakes and learning from this. And this is true for all of life, just not the classroom.
So when you stumble, don't fall down and stay down, don't waste your energy beating ourself up or trying to mask your mistake. Own your failures and learn from them!! What is important to me is that you learn and discover what really excites you and what doesn't.
It may seem safer to play it safe and stay within the lines,
but that is not where you will real live!
love, mom
Saturday, October 8, 2016
day41: how to succeed ...
To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child, a garden patch
or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
Bessie Stanley*
simply this ...
love, mom
(*Often attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, it is an adaptation of a poem published in 1905 by Bessie Stanley. No version of it has been found in Emerson's writings. For more information see “Success.”)
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
day23: be patient with yourself, always!!!
Practice patience with yourself,
your loved ones, your friends,
coworkers and even strangers.
It does not cost you much,
and the results are priceless.
love, mom
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Tuesday, June 7, 2016
may this dress bring us the courage to follow our own heart!!!!
Your time is limited; don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition; they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs
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Tuesday, May 31, 2016
May this dress motivate us and bring us GUSTO!!!!
To do anything truly worth doing,
I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Og Mandino
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
today, celebrate the ones who have brought love into your life!!!
"life without love,
is no life at all."
da vinci
Happy Anniversary to my wonderful and wacky parents!!!!
XXXX
who seem to have a thing about glasses ... XXXX
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Monday, May 23, 2016
May this dress reminds us of our ecstatic state of being!!
Thursday, January 21, 2016
may this dress bring us love, love, love!!!
Thursday, November 26, 2015
'thank you' and amen ....
Friday, August 21, 2015
may this dress remind us to practice gratitude!! XXX
If the only prayer you ever say
in your entire life is
Thursday, July 16, 2015
Today, share some happiness!!! XXXX
Happiness is like a kiss.
You must share it to enjoy it.
Bernard Meltzer
One of the many cards that I just delivered to #renew in preparation for tonight's Natick #artwalk!! Make sure to head to the center of #Natick this evening, everyone is putting on the best, all in the name of #ART!!! #vadressobsessed #dailydressinspiration #happiness#kissing —
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Saturday, June 27, 2015
Today, let's celebrate LOVE and friends!!! #lovehaswon
"Surround yourself with people who make you happy.
People who make you laugh,
who help you when you’re in need.
People who genuinely care.
They are the ones worth keeping in your life.
Everyone else is just passing through."
Karl Marx
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Monday, May 11, 2015
may this dress bring us patience . . .
Saturday, May 9, 2015
may this dress remind us all of the importance of rest . . . .
Rest when you're weary.
Refresh and renew yourself,
your body, your mind, your spirit.
Then get back to work.
Ralph Marston
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| #fromthelandofdragons - for brenda |
it appears as though I haven't been resting enough ...
a bit under the weather today so sending this reminder &
request out into the universe!!
peace
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015
may this dress remind us to live & love our own lives!!!
this is quite the inspiring talk . . . (but aren't most TedTalks inspiring??)
When you stop living your life
based on what others think of you
real life begins.
At that moment,
you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened.”
Shannon L. Alder
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