Away on a Thinking Vacation
I will be away for a bit, celebrating the fourth of July with large amounts of food and alcohol, as our founding fathers would have wanted. I’m in need of a blog-vacation, so I won’t be posting for a few days.
I have spent the last few weeks thinking a lot about the state of the world and what I’m doing with my life. Am I showing Lucy the right way to live? Am I doing all I can to make her planet a better place? This will probably continue during my few days away from the Internet, especially since I’ll be on a farm in Nowheresville, Kansas with a split group of political enthusiasts who love to drink vodka and debate (or dance, whichever comes first). I feel like I haven’t been doing enough for my world in the last few years. Before the whole holy-shit-I’m-pregnant thing, I was very involved in my community and non-profit organizations and saving the world one empoverished family at a time….but lately I’ve been doing some major slacking. Maybe because I started to become a part of an empoverished family myself? Maybe because my own life just seemed like too much?
But it’s time to do something. So a big goal of mine this weekend is to find a way that I can help more than just myself. What can I do? Where will I contribute the most good?
What can you do?
What will we do?
Albert Einstein:
“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“You must do the things you think you cannot do”
Helen Keller
“I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker”
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing”
I love you Megan and keep asking us all to be more…you are an amazing motivator!!!
Oh the Margarets too!!!!
Margaret Mead:
Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Thatcher:
If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.