hello hippie lou,
i hope your week has started off pretty well since we chatted at madman espresso! i wanted to share a quote from the founder of To Write Love on Her Arms, an inspirational non-profit organization that encourages people wrestling with tough stuff like self-injury and major depression. I attached a photo of the quote to this e-mail, and I hope it gives you a dose of inspiration, hippie lou! :)
thank you for inspiring me to reach out to my 5th grade teacher on LinkedIn-- i wrote to her through a form on her school homepage, she doesn't have LinkedIn, so I was thrilled to find that form so I could type a message to her! If you want to see her profile page (on her current school's website), here it is!
And in an introductory packet for her 3rd grade students, she wrote, "I use a lot of positive reinforcement and patience in the classroom. :)" That sentence definitely captures my experience with her as a 5th grader!
happy tuesday!
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
not sure...it's always a mystery!
i heard it this morning at a coffee shop. that's always a good start for prospective songs of the day.
after a little research i realized it has a couple of cosmic connections to my life. i remember liking it a lot when it first came out (1968). little did i know the reference to nazareth in the song was to nazareth, pa, a place i would (decades later) live for ten years. and i actually did a favor for someone when i first started staying in the e. village, taking their guitar out to the martin guitar factory in nazareth, which is alluded to in attempts to explain the song's meaning.
ps - i liked the pope's quote: "A selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and disadvantaged," he said.
i heard it this morning at a coffee shop. that's always a good start for prospective songs of the day.
after a little research i realized it has a couple of cosmic connections to my life. i remember liking it a lot when it first came out (1968). little did i know the reference to nazareth in the song was to nazareth, pa, a place i would (decades later) live for ten years. and i actually did a favor for someone when i first started staying in the e. village, taking their guitar out to the martin guitar factory in nazareth, which is alluded to in attempts to explain the song's meaning.
ps - i liked the pope's quote: "A selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and disadvantaged," he said.
Hippie Lou, thanks for the lovely dinner and for being patient with me during my crabby moment. It was so nice catching up with you and hearing about all the fruits of your love labor.
You are a bright star in the firmament!
Keep spreading peace and love.
even though we are impermanent, i treasure the moments we share together. you are a big inspiration to me, and a role model too.
and always dreaming up new ways to encapsulate what i do. never thought of my work as being "love labor." but looking at it, yes, my labor is love.
and to think that someone who specialized in labor economics in grad school has overlooked this just shows me that your ability to teach and illuminate is endless.
You are a bright star in the firmament!
Keep spreading peace and love.
even though we are impermanent, i treasure the moments we share together. you are a big inspiration to me, and a role model too.
and always dreaming up new ways to encapsulate what i do. never thought of my work as being "love labor." but looking at it, yes, my labor is love.
and to think that someone who specialized in labor economics in grad school has overlooked this just shows me that your ability to teach and illuminate is endless.
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