June 2, 2020 Mailing

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Thoughts from the Outside

Education is a gift from God that takes hard work and endurance but it has a reward that no one can take away. – Bonnie

You are in our hearts and prayers. – Janice

Thinking of you all every single day and looking forward to seeing many of you again. – Sionna/Shannon

Challenges for Today

Draw a self-portrait or eat a meal or get dressed or move through your entire day without using your dominant hand.

Something to write or think about: are three traits or characteristics most accurately describe you? Have you had those traits or characteristics for as long as you can remember, or when/how do you think they developed?

Quotations to Think About Today

Art serves to rinse out our eyes. – Carl Klaus

I feel there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. – Vincent Van Gogh

There are silences harder to take back than words. – James Richardson

Do not always finish the same book. – Rachel Blau DuPlessis

The Journey – Mary Oliver (again!)

One day you finally knew

what you had to do, and began,

though the voices around you

kept shouting

their bad advice –

through the whole house

began to tremble

and you felt the old tug

at your ankles.

“Mend my life!”

each voice cried.

But you didn’t stop.

You know what you had to do,

though the wind pried

with its stiff fingers

at the very foundation,

though their melancholy

was terrible.

It was already late

enough, and a wild night,

and the road full of fallen

branches and stones.

But little by little,

as you left their voices behind,

the stars began to burn

through the sheets of clouds,

and there was a new voice

which you slowly

recognized as your own,

that kept you company

as you strode deeper and deeper

into the world,

determined to do

the only thing you could do –

determined to save

the only life you could save.