READ--LOOK--WRITE! 12

READ


ANYWAY

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

--Mother Theresa





LOOK

It helps me, when dealing with feelings of anger and shame, to turn my gaze to how good I have it.  How incredibly lucky I have been throughout my life.  When struggling with hard feelings (first-world problems, as I like to call them), any sense of perspective helps.  This photo series did just that for me.  Oh, what a crazed, mad, beautiful world!  Children and their possession's




WRITE!


When rain comes,
plant your feet.
Those little seeds will grow.
Just as life;
kicking down your door.