one and precious

 

“Tell me, what are you going to do with your one wild and precious life?”

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thank you

 

 

An old friend called yesterday and told me about a fabulous trip to Europe she took with her family this summer. She painstakingly planned the whole thing and it paid off. They did it their way and it was a memory for life.

She told me in passing  that afterward she said “thank you” to her husband for letting her plan it.

“it is so nice to hear someone in a long and  first marriage say this important phrase” I told her. (you know, with no tone, eyeball rolling, sarcasm but big time with meaning)

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eat that frog, lift a baby elephant

I believe the first things we think about and do  every day are like a passport to the rest of the day

 

You truly can make the day into what you want

I know this as much because of how, on rare occasion, my attitude  and lack of preparedness  has wrecked a day
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