Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up. | |
– Jane Yolen | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | What Do You See? |
2021 | Lite It Up |
Some Day | |
2020 | No Answers Yet |
120 Day Health / Weight Update (Jan 2020) | |
2019 | Stationary Target |
2018 | And Firmly |
2017 | Nearer My Goal To Thee |
2016 | Relatively Simple Actions |
2015 | And Yet, You Did |
2014 | Difficult Learning |
2013 | Four Things To do |
2012 | When I Was Young… |
Emergence | |
Archive for January 16th, 2023
A Little Advice On Blogging…
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Writing, tagged Exercise, Jane Yolen, On Writing, Philosophy, Quotes on January 16, 2023| 4 Comments »
Two Thoughts For The Holiday
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Work, tagged Beethoven, Dignity, Excellence, Labor, Martin Luther King Jr, Michelangelo, Philosophy, Quotes, Shakespeare, Work on January 16, 2023| 2 Comments »
Today is a national holiday in the United States which commemorates the life of civil rights leader (Martin Luther King, Jr.) who sought to bring “equality under law” to all citizens of our country. One of the ways he sought to do this was by bringing dignity and equality to ALL work – not just for the well educated or the well paid – but for all who work their best and make our nation a better society for it. The pursuit of excellence (“doing your best”) in any endeavor uplifts us all. The following are two quotes expressing this idea: | |
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. | |
— Martin Luther King, Jr. | |
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. | |
— Martin Luther King, Jr. | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | What Do You See? |
2021 | Lite It Up |
Some Day | |
2020 | No Answers Yet |
120 Day Health / Weight Update (Jan 2020) | |
2019 | Stationary Target |
2018 | And Firmly |
2017 | Nearer My Goal To Thee |
2016 | Relatively Simple Actions |
2015 | And Yet, You Did |
2014 | Difficult Learning |
2013 | Four Things To do |
2012 | When I Was Young… |
Emergence | |