Tag Archives: patient
Real Life Kindness
RAVE to the Seattle Parks and Recreation staff for keeping all the baseball fields in good shape so the kids can play ball and the parents and grandparents can hang out together in the parks watching baseball. RAVE to those who helped … Continue reading
Radom Act of Kindness
RAVE to the woman I passed on the trail Sunday morning in Carkeek Park, walking with her partner, who pointed out the downy woodpecker in the bush off the trail. After all these years walking through that park, I have never … Continue reading
Wisdom from Her Mom
[Kids] made fun of me. [Called me] liver lips. Ugly. Said my nose was too broad. I was too dark. I was too this. I was too that. And my mother said look in the mirror. Give yourself some time. … Continue reading
Nature
“Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decypher even fragments of their meaning. Lydia M. Child Positively … Continue reading
Time to Flourish
Last spring I decided to cut down the rose bush by our back door. In the three years we’d lived in our home, it hadn’t produced many flowers, and its ugly, fruitless branches were now creeping in all directions. But … Continue reading
Real Life of an MSW 