the first three stories in my ‘enlil & aris’ series are out!!!
check them out if you like short tales with witches, banter, good manners, assorted plants, crows, grumpy cats, rude rabbits, faeries, true love, fierce hate, vampires, revenge and more!🌟🐦⬛
https://t.co/2NWt0EM7Ou
Crazy how peaceful your life becomes when you realize it's not your responsibility to regulate other people's emotions, manage their insecurities, pacify their inner wars, heal their wounds, do their inner work, and be the version of you in their minds.
“They say it’s OK to talk to yourself, as long as you don’t talk back. But my inner monologue is very chatty and after a bit it starts to feel rude to ignore it. If I can’t be friends with me, who can? No, the trouble comes when you talk to yourself and find that you disagree.”
"Do not tie your healing to the hope that someone is going to someday regret what they did to you. Some people do not regret doing you wrong. Some even forgot doing you wrong. Some are unaware of their wrongs. Some will never accept that they did you wrong.” ~Dr. Tumi
The Harvard Study of Adult Development began tracking the lives of 268 Harvard sophomores in 1938.
It is considered the longest running study on adult life, health, and happiness.
Here are 3 powerful findings everyone should know:
I don't want to be someone who spends my life paralyzed with fear and rage at people who are not like me; I want to be someone who saw the hidden glory in others, who embraced them in their strangeness, whose heart was alive to the astonishing miracle of being.
people say they would love to recapture the childhood experience of curling up under the blankets with a book and a flashlight but you can do that at any time. you're an adult.
Are #AsianAmericans people of color or the next in line to become white?
Here, I shift the frame from the social scientists who study assimilation & privilege the voices of AsianAms who are experiencing it
My latest @BrookingsInst just presented @the_IAS https://t.co/knsw0QE95e
"You may not always see the results of your kindness, but every bit of positive energy you contribute to the world makes it a better place for all of us." ~Lisa Currie
Have a story to tell and would like to learn in an inclusive setting? Check out the workshop (in the above link) put out by Capital Storytelling at the Seat at the Table Bookstore in Elk Grove, California. Share with those who may be interested. @ldragoon