Tag: quotes

Gratitude

There are a handful of books that I have read over and over again at different times in my like. The Alchemist is one of those books. Here’s one quote that has always meant a lot to me.

Keep Calm

I don’t always break shit, but I almost always raise hell. Keeping calm is not really in my repertoire.  

Bossy

I’m just gonna leave this right here for everyone to contemplate. I have more to say, but it will have to wait until another post.

The Circle of Uncertainty

Today was a typical Monday (class, meetings, etc) with the added excitement of a weather situation happening this week. A friend and I were looking up snow predictions on the website and we came across this image from the local news station. The Circle of Uncertainty! What an excellent metaphor for life.  

Do or Do Not, There Is No Try

This is my the desk in my office. It’s one of the first things students, colleagues, and visitors see when they walk in and especially if they sit down to meet with me. I never see it when I sit at my desk because it is turned outward. I was kinda out-of-sorts yesterday because my […]

Quotes

Here are several quotes/sayings I try to come back to time and time again.

MLK Day

I read a quote by MLK this morning that I don’t remember ever seeing before. I’m sure I’ve seen it, but it certainly didn’t resonant in the past the way it did with me this morning. “An Individual has not started living fully until they can rise above the narrow confines of individualistic concerns to […]

Writing, Running, & Teaching

Several years ago (okay probably twenty years although it seems like only ten), I picked up Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within while working in the writing center at University of Southwestern Louisiana (where I did my undergraduate degree), now University of Louisiana at Lafayette…the Ragin Cajuns! I had just started […]