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Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody says distract you from your goals. Michelle Obama Meditation: Michelle Obama was the first African American female serving as the First Lady in the White House. My twin daughters were 4 years old when they began to see Michelle regularly on TV, as a roleContinue reading “Always stay true to yourself…”

When it comes to the military, I don’t want to discuss things. I want to let – I want to let the action take place before the talk takes place. Donald Trump Meditation: “Reacting” has become the strategy of the US President. It is scary that consequences are not even being discussed or weighed beforeContinue reading “Starting without thinking…”

When I’m writing, I’m trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that’s how life is lived, you know? Charlie Kaufman Meditation: How will history write about this timeContinue reading “Decay or integration?…”

I spend a lot of time thinking about this business of letting go – letting go of the children God gives to us for such a brief time before they go off on their own; letting go of old homes, old friends, old places and old dreams. Susan Estrich Meditation: Our children are growing upContinue reading “The art of letting go…”

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing. Bruce Sterling Meditation: Our new government distracts the masses by tweeting, by spreading rumors, by manipulating the media on what they should report on. All these distractions cover up that the new people in office have a hidden agenda and goals that onlyContinue reading “All they do is distract…”

The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don’t find very often, then that is whatContinue reading “The secret to a happy marriage…”

The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own. Barak Obama Meditation: Two days ago a man ignited a fire underneath one of the main interstate bridges hereContinue reading “Together we will succeed…”

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. (Attributed to) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Meditation: When we create an atmosphere that is non-judgmental and non-critical, children thrive. All art flourishes in an environment that does not look for “mistakes”, but uses languageContinue reading “Be bold…”

“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass…It’s about learning to dance in the rain.”  Vivian Greene Meditation: The past months have felt like a storm. Many of us have felt more anxious than usual. My workplace went through a lot of changes. Challenges from the outside and from the inside. At the same timeContinue reading “Too weak to dance?…”

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. Abraham Lincoln Meditation:  Just as in German history eighty years ago, the US experiences the perversion of general values as for example “decency”, “order” or “assumed values of right and wrong”. As we are watching the manipulation of facts and the perversion of ethical values we askContinue reading “Christian Responsibility…”