Never make your home in a place.
Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it – memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things.
That way it will go with you wherever you journey.
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are – Joseph Campbell
Sometimes it takes reading it a few hundred times to understand.
Hope your Sunday is lovely. -J
Of the many hours reported, there are many different projects going on in this world.
We don’t have enough time in our lives to tell you all the stories we have read and happy tears of joy this MDY3 has brought into our lives.
We humbly thank you for doing all the hours that you have been doing and look forward to the rest of the summer as we are passed the half-way mark and heading for home base- that wonderful sunset –
Here is something to think about –
Officially we are in the middle of summer, half-way there and half-way back.
The good intentions of June have passed thru the murky waters of July and are now staring you in the face with the heat of August…. and there is a list of things to be done by September too!
It isn’t what you planned in your head, when you started this year or even this summer. The truth is life happens.
But that doesn’t mean you failed or are a failure. You adjust and attack again or adjust and simply come away with a different viewpoint.
Failure doesn’t define us, it strengthens us.
If you haven’t gotten your Moving Difference hours done yet, take a breath. You got time and you got this…
Even a minute, even just one hour of Moving Difference is something to be proud of.
Don’t let the doubt of failure be your hallmark.
Have the courage on the path that you have set out for yourself. You got this!
In order to survive the grind of the summer and the craziness of MDY3, silly and foolish bets are placed amongst the staff here at MDY3 –
This week appears to be my turn at the challenge….
I was challenged to use a big smile face art and any Chinese quote in a motivational way.
If I fail, I have to buy Chinese lunch for the MDY3 crew or if I am successful, I still have to buy lunch for the MDY3 crew but I picked it….
And I have five minutes from roughly 3 minutes ago…. so remember campers, silly bets over the summer are fun – even if you have to buy lunch either way!!
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb
(P.S. oh snap – MDY3 staff – we are having brains and tongue tacos!!! or Subway….. – thanks Robot Chicken for the reference!)
Sometimes I am the mouse, sometimes I am the cheese….
I am taking a weekend off from this huge Moving Difference project. Yup, this weekend….
I am sure that you all will survive one weekend…. if not, email me on Monday. Ha!
The love of my life is celebrating his milestone of a birthday on Saturday.
Yes, he is the love of my life, the guy that is there for all the stuff that happens and even for yet another idea of mine.
I am proud of him. He is an amazing person and then he does some pretty cool stuff with his profession and other interests.
He is what courage is all about. He has the courage to be himself and the courage to stand up for those who can’t.
He is a friend, a colleague, a person, a brother, an uncle, a nephew, a son and a legal professional.
His dreams are mind-blowing, his laughter I could live in, his hopes are simple and his love is wide.
I am so lucky that he shares this crazy life with me, I am thankful for all of the moments and all of the starlight, both in the sky and in our hair….
To the love of my life – happy birthday!
I love you so much. J
To the rest of you – The best lines from Easyrider (the movie) and catch you all on Monday!
Easyrider scene (link to the scene)
George Hanson: You know, this used to be a helluva good country. I can’t understand what’s gone wrong with it.
Billy: Man, everybody got chicken, that’s what happened. Hey, we can’t even get into like, a second-rate hotel, I mean, a second-rate motel, you dig? They think we’re gonna cut their throat or somethin’. They’re scared, man.
George Hanson: They’re not scared of you. They’re scared of what you represent to ’em.
Billy: Hey, man. All we represent to them, man, is somebody who needs a haircut.
George Hanson: Oh, no. What you represent to them is freedom.
Billy: What the hell is wrong with freedom? That’s what it’s all about.
George Hanson: Oh, yeah, that’s right. That’s what’s it’s all about, all right. But talkin’ about it and bein’ it, that’s two different things. I mean, it’s real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don’t ever tell anybody that they’re not free, ’cause then they’re gonna get real busy killin’ and maimin’ to prove to you that they are. Oh, yeah, they’re gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it’s gonna scare ’em.
Billy: Well, it don’t make ’em runnin’ scared.
George Hanson: No, it makes ’em dangerous. Buh, neh! Neh! Neh! Neh! Swamp!
It has not been a stellar week.
Here I sit at a bus stop in the the middle of a bad rain storm in the middle of a very long week.
Personally I have spent too much time looking for a package, waiting and worrying for calls and emails on a variety of things and everything else plus work and other life stuff.
Then I am reminded of a phrase from an old college science professor.
“A jewel is just a pebble that is worth something to someone”
I am reminded of the small things that do the most good are how you see them. Sure, there is bad everywhere and anywhere, but there is good at the same places.
The raindrops aren’t tears from heaven, they are water leaking from cloud, right?
I am losing it – I am wet, scared, tired, unsuccessful and beyond frustrated.
The wind is making the rain dance on the puddles in a rhythm pattern. And I am so wet that I don’t think anybody can tell the difference between the rain and my tears. I am a large very wet to the bone sobbing mess and I am thinking about rocks.
A truck hits the puddles. I didn’t think I could get more wet, but I did.
There is nowhere to escape the rain, the wet, the heat or the fact that I am officially spent emotionally and it is only Wednesday.
I see the next truck coming, I know the puddles are deep. I know that I don’t have the package that I have spent all of this week looking for. I know I am waiting and worrying on many areas of life stuff. I know that it is still raining. I know the puddle is coming to me.
And it did. I wasn’t any wetter this time.
Just mad that I couldn’t do anything to change the situation – the moment of time that I was in.
Still no bus, still raining, still wet.
I decided to pick up the trash so it doesn’t go into the storm drain.
Cans, wrappers and plastic bottles and a pretty cool rock…..
I think I will keep it….
And I am walking home, can’t get any wetter and I can’t make the package appear, the emails and calls happen or the world to stop being crazy but I pick up the trash here and I can enjoy a walk in the rain in a new rock in my pocket.
Note: This was written yesterday, but because of storms and the internet being funky – it was finally posted today.
Summer is starting to truly heat up!!!
Thank you for all the hours that you have done this far!!
(Keep sending your hours in!! -With the subject line “reporting hours”)
The quote for this delightful Sunday is:
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius
Keeping going – keep doing – YOU ARE A MOVING DIFFERENCE!!!
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