Now, this is an old post, however, it made me laugh again today when i reread it. So , I’ve decided to re-post it. Sometimes I lead a church youth/teen class and I really enjoy it, but I think younger kids speak their minds out with a lot more freedom that is beautiful hearing - its always a hilarious experience! I just love kids, they are so unpredictable and funny. Throughout the years I’ve read some funny quotes and prayers from children and as I was cleaning my files today …

My definition of art contains three elements:

Art is made by a human being.
Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.
Art is a gift. You can sell the souvenir, the canvas, the recording… but the idea itself is free, and the generosity is a critical part of making art.

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we’re doing when we do our best work.

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If you haven’t read it yet from my Facebook profile or newsletter I send, here is another opportunity to read this inspiring story from Tim Sanders. sandersays.com
My grandmother, Billye Coffman, raised me on a farm in eastern New Mexico.
She took me in after my mother abandoned me in a motel room in Odessa TX.  At the time, she and her husband were breaking up after twenty years of marriage.  Tough stuff.  He left us in less than a year.  He cleaned out the accounts, ran up the bills …

I think that successful people often share similar characteristics. Over time I have come to believe that the one thing successful people have most in common is that they find success on the far side of failure.
What do I mean by finding success on the far side of failure?  Well I find that almost all successful people have experienced significant failures in life or in their work, but they have learned from their failures.
On the other hand, it seems that people who don’t recognize their failures or don’t seek …

Seth Godin just released What Matters Now, a free e-book featuring 70 thought leaders across a variety of important subjects. I’ve read it twice now, and there are dozens of incredible ideas in this gem of a freebie - from Mr Idea Virus himself!

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Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.

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Umberto Eco’s sumptuous inquiry into how memory and identity are constructed can very easily be read as a whimsical memoir of his reading life. The novel opens with 59-year-old Giambattista Bodoni waking up in a hospital bed with no remembrance of who he is. All he has are copious references from literature. His doctor must acquaint him with his name, with the year he inhabits (1991, in the aftermath of the America-led invasion of Iraq), and his intelligent, dutiful wife, Paola, his city (Milan), and his thriving business as an antiquarian bookseller.

Bodoni, it transpires, is on the mend after a stroke and, in the prognosis of his doctor, has suffered total loss of episodic — or autobiographical — memory. To hasten recovery, he is discharged to the care of his psychologist wife. But a tour of the locales of his life — his well-appointed apartment and his book studio — summons no sense of familiarity, only words and descriptions once read. “I only remember words,” he says, summing up his reduced ability to engage with the world. Sessions with his best friend and with his grandchildren fail to help him identify with the given version of his past. To do so, recommends his wife, he should go to Solara, to his ancestral home in the hills.