“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” William Ernest Henley wrote these often quoted lines of poetry in 1875 while in a hospital recovering from tuberculosis of the bone that required an amputation of one leg and surgery on the other. The title of the poem is “Invictus” …Read More
Category: Poem
It Ain’t Love It’s Dopamine ~ Natalie Wilson
As we gamify our lives, even love has become a game. The chemical of addiction is dopamine. The reward that our brain receives is a hit of dopamine when we win the lottery, win the video game, win at blackjack, win the girl or guy, win … win … win … This brain neurotransmitter makes us …Read More
Do It Anyway ~ Mother Teresa
Do It Anyway People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway. If you …Read More
Mystic Borderland ~ by Helen Field Fischer
There is a Mystic Borderland There is a mystic borderland that lies Just past the limits of our workday world, And it is peopled with the friends we met And loved a year, a month, a week or day, And parted from with aching hearts, yet knew That through the distance we must loose the …Read More
Keep Going ~ by Edgar A. Guest
Keep Going When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest if you must—but don’t you quit. Life …Read More
Look to this Day, for it is Life ~ by Kalidasa
Look to this Day,for it is Life – the very Life of Life.In its brief course lie all the veritiesand realities of your existence:the Bliss of Growth,the Glory of Action,the Splendor of Beauty.For yesterday is already a dreamand tomorrow is only a vision;but today, well-lived,makes every yesterday a dream of happinessand every tomorrow a vision …Read More
Thanksgiving Song by Mary Chapin Carpenter
Thanksgiving Song Grateful for each hand we hold Gathered round this table. From far and near we travel home, Blessed that we are able. Grateful for this sheltered place With light in every window, Saying welcome, welcome, share this feast Come in away from sorrow. Father, mother, daughter, son, Neighbor, friend and friendless; All together …Read More
The Pendulum by Dwight Lyman Moody
The Pendulum There was once a pendulum waiting to be fixed on a new clock. It began to calculate how long it would be before the big wheels were worn out and its work was done. It would be expected to tick night and day, so many times a minute, sixty times that every hour, …Read More
Remembrance Day – “In Flanders Fields”
November 11 is Remembrance Day in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. (While November 11 in the United States is Veteran’s Day, the British Remembrance Day is more similar to Memorial Day in the United States.) Remembrance Day honors the end of World War I and honors those that died in the war. Wearing a …Read More
Poem: Dear Ancestor
On this All Souls’ Day (November 2nd), there are many different traditions from around the world to honor our dead. The simplest is taking the time to visit the cemetery. Looking into the past, the ancestors that we can never really know stretch back through time, weaving us into the web of the planet and …Read More