|
| |
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
June 23, 2008 6:19 pm |
|
| |
|
|
| |
A mother of a vivacious five-year-old just returned from a meeting of the National Organization for Women. Stirred by exciting dreams for the possibilities of womanhood, she asked her daughter what she wanted to be when she grew up. Little Lisa quickly answered, "A nurse."
There was a time when nursing was thought of as a woman's profession and the answer somehow seemed not to satisfy. She had, after all, just returned from a NOW conference.
"You can be anything you want to be," she reminded her daughter. "You can be a lawyer, a surgeon, a banker, president of the country - you can be anything."
"Anything?" Lisa asked.
"Anything!" her mother smiled.
"I know," Lisa said. "I want to be a horse!"
Lisa's dream may need some refinement, but there is plenty of time for that. When do we quit dreaming about the future? When do we resign ourselves to simply replaying dreams from the past?
Maybe her dream needs to mature a bit, but would you rather have the optimism of a five-year-old girl who wants to be a horse, or the pessimism of an adult who says in despair, "I can't be anything at all"?
Teddy Roosevelt said, "Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground." I believe that is the way to make those dreams come true. It begins with looking up and dreaming something beautiful. |
|
| |
|
|
| |
Posted in |
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
June 23, 2008 6:30 am |
|
| |
|
|
| |
Welcome to LoveLogger.com! Now you can tell the whole world about the passion that exists between you two, or incidents which has created some sparks, you can share just about anything that you two can pair-blog on... together. |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
June 24, 2008 6:01 pm |
|
| |
|
|
| |
Someone I know has a child in elementary school. That child came home and complained, “It’s no fair!” “What’s not fair?” Her mother asks. “We were lined up to go to the computer lab and two boys were noisy so we didn’t go.” “What did you do instead?” “Extra math sheets.” And what was done about this? Nothing. No parent complaint or questions of concerns. And so, it happened at least one other time after that. It will probably happen again. Obviously it is ok that computers are a reward. Obviously Math makes suitable punishment. Obviously I’m being sarcastic. So often we are measured by what we do, but seldom by what we do not do. Have you challenged yourself this year? Have you gone to the hard places when you needed to? Have you reflected deeply? Have you written thoughtfully? Have you commented meaningfully? Have you inspired a desire to learn? Does your inaction reflect who you are or who you’d rather not be? |
|
| |
|
|
| |
Posted in |
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
