Month: December 2021

📅 Thought for today: ‘Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Every block of stone has a statue inside it, and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.’ — Michelangelo #thoughtfortoday #statue #stone #scultor #michelangelo #teaching #potential #mindset I have always liked this quote. I envisage the sculptor “freeing” the statue from the stone, or maybe like an archaeologist…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.’ — Sigmund Freud #thoughtfortoday #freedom #responsibility #boomer #witch #freud There is a strange irony that boomers like me were part of a freedom movement and yet where we as a society have ended…

📅 Thought for today: ‘We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.’ — Carl Sagan #thoughtfortoday #CarlSagan #dontlookup #science #technology #society #socialmedia I watched the film “Don’t Look Up” last night, a biting satire on modern times. I found it funny and…

📅 Thought for today: ‘At nine of the night I opened my door That stands midway between moor and moor, And all around me, silver-bright, I saw that the world had turned to white.’ — Charles Causley, At Nine of the Night #thoughtfortoday #poetry #CharlesCausley #winter #snow #frosty I have developed an interest in poetry…

📅 Thought for today: ‘My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?’ — Bob Hope #thoughtfortoday #love #Christmas #heart #hand Why indeed? Last year, Christmas 2020, was the first time we were unable to…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.’ — Dr Seuss #thoughtfortoday #love #Christmas #heart #hand My thoughts today are with my family, so no post online this Christmas day.

📅 Thought for today: ‘Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.’ — Karl A Menninger #thoughtfortoday #love #cure #gift #giving #receiving #unconditional This is my final thought this week about gifts we can give which are valued by the receiver but require no financial outlay. After…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.’ — Doug Larson #thoughtfortoday #listening #reward #gifts #value #talking #talk #wisdom #Christmas Continuing my week of thoughts about Christmas gifts we can give which are valued by the receiver but require no financial outlay.…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Empathy has no script. There is no right way or wrong way to do it. It’s simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of “You’re not alone.”‘ — Brené Brown #thoughtfortoday #empathy #empathic #gifts #value #celebrate #nojudgement #Christmas Continuing my week of thoughts about…