Successful professional athletes are big heroes in our society, but what about all the tired people who manage to get themselves outside to play ball with their kid, or walk their dog, or run around the neighborhood because they know they will feel better if they do? Don’t they deserve a few hero points?
What physical activity deserves to gain you hero points?
The weather may or may not be warm, but there can be no denying that in the Northern Hemisphere the daylight has been growing longer and longer, and now the light and the dark are in the moment of balance.
What helps you to notice growing light when all around you feels cold?
“Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. They come to us not knowing this truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.” —Albert Schweitzer
What does the doctor who lives inside you have to say?
An apple blossom seems like the ultimate in fragile, useless beauty. It lasts for just a brief, lovely moment before the wind blows it away. But without the blossom’s power to attract, there would be no fruit.
How has something you’ve lost made possible something that you’ve gained?
St. Patrick’s Day is a good holiday for being (or claiming to be) Irish and for the color green. Not such a good day for snakes.
What parts of your identity do you celebrate?
