Eling

“We can win.
We can lose.
We can fall down.
We can get up and do it over again, better.
We can go for it as if we have nothing to lose, knowing we have everything to lose.
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We can tear up a dance floor and put it all back together again.
We can talk loud in public.
We can be fierce.
We can be small.
We can be mighty.
We can be too much.
We can be just enough, just in time.
We can.
We have to.”
― Bill T. Jones, Last Night on Earth

“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
― Sue Grafton

“If I start doing more things with my hands, whether that's woodworking or gardening or knitting or baking cookies, I might fall into the condition made famous by the psychologist with the impossible name: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. That condition is "flow." It means becoming completely involved in an activity not for the sake of the outcome but for the sheer joy of it. It means feeling alive when we are fully in the groove of doing something. According to Csikszentmihalyi, the path to greatest happiness lies not with mindless consuming but with challenging ourselves to experience or produce something new, becoming in the process more engaged, connected and alive.”
― Catherine Friend, Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet

“If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.”
― Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club