“If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.” —Mary Pickford
Today, I’ll pick myself up again. fall 7 times, get up 8. Maybe I needed to learn that even if I do fall and break and can get up again and go.
this quote got me. given the game winning shot 26 times and missing, and still maybe the greatest player ever. chin up, move forward.
“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” —Michael Jordan
“What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life.” —Srully D. Blotnick
This has actually happened for me before. I want to trust it can again.
to help avoid cancer and live 30000 days as healthfully as possible: eat garlic, leeks, broccoli, kale, spinach, radicchio, etc.
This morning’s gratitude list:
may we all live each day of our lives.
This video shows what is possible when love comes before reason. Grateful I can see the value of love. grateful others have loved me when I really needed it. grateful I can speak, and especially grateful when I can speak what is true in my heart, when it can emerge unedited and whole.
Note to myself: gratitude as a practice has value, especially when I don’t feel like it, when I’m feeling less hope and trust and excitement about life. That’s when I most need perspective, that’s when having a more complete sense of reality helps me.
OK…
grateful I woke up this morning. That impulse within me to live, grateful I have that, it feels substantial. grateful I have another day to make the most of the life I’ve been given. grateful I can see the universe is so incomprehensibly immense, that i am so small, so close to nothing in relation. and that what I do matters. side by side, these two are mind-blowing.
the root of gratitude is the great mystery itself. that I get to be part of something so much larger than me, and it’s all a gift. my responsibility is to step in and live the gift.
fuzzy from painkillers. and really grateful I no longer have an abscessed molar. grateful for the hope that this simple fact lends to the future. no more infected jawbone. grateful I was led to an awesome oral surgeon who took care of me. grateful my life is considered in this way by the universe: important enough to get what I need to become healthier and stronger. Not that it’s all about me, just the opposite. I’m still here, thank you. Grateful for my partner Peg, she loves me so much and fills my heart, how lucky I am. She made me some wonderfully yummy food and hot tea. I feel so loved, lucky me.
Coffee. Grateful for my coffee this morning. We have a coffee maker and coffee grinder. The aroma fills the room. The taste is wonderful. Grateful for all these.
Grateful I can buy coffee at the market, that I have money to do that. For the trucker and dock workers, for the ship that carried the beans. grateful to the farmer who grew the coffee. all the people working in the fields, drying the beans, packing them for shipment.