Month: November 2013

The Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz wished desperately to have a heart, but all the time his loving actions proved he was anything but hollow inside.

What have you wished for that it turned out you already had?

There is no such thing as only a test. All of life is testing, trying things out, experimenting to see what will happen. Our only choice is whether we pay attention to the results of our experiments.

How will you change something in your life based on what you’ve learned today?

Beach weather isn’t just summer, or when the sun is shining. Beach weather is whatever weather you have when you’re at the beach.

What do you like to do “out of season”?

“We cling to the present out of wariness of the past. And why not, after all? We get confused. We need such escape as we can find. But there is a deeper need yet, I think, and that is the need—not all the time, surely, but from time to time—to enter that still room within us all where the past lives on as a part of the present, where the dead are alive again, where we are most alive ourselves to turnings and to where our journeys have brought us. The name of the room is Remember—the room where with patience, with charity, with quietness of heart, we remember consciously to remember the lives we have lived.”
― Frederick Buechner

Who occupies your room called Remember?

There is nothing shy about the color magenta. It is a sit up and take notice color, a stand out in the crowd color, a color that boldly declares its place on the spectrum and just assumes that you’re going to like it.

How do you let yourself stand out?