Martha  Clark  Scala

Don’t we get attached to our playbooks too? We think this is how a day should turn out, or how a planned vacation should go, etc.

If we could only keep it in the forefront of our minds that we share the same atoms, how different would our interactions with others be?

Ask for help when you need it. Give help when you can. Isn’t this a recipe for more joy?

Don’t give up when you are thwarted. Expose yourself to the creative work of someone else, and it just might inspire you.

My sincere hope is that you have at least a handful of people in your life who raise you up. It doesn’t even have to be people you know.

Entropy, a noun that is used to describe a concept in physics, also occurs in life beyond science and it is rather daunting. The philosophy

What Mom modeled was a healthy interplay between discipline and reward, or between activities we must do and those that are optional . . .

Obliviousness, the state of being unaware of what’s going on, can be a great antidote to the barrage of disturbing news, etc

Are you inclined to curse that agitator? This would be understandable but perhaps there’s a blessing in the curse.

In retrospect, I see how the most consistent thing I did to metabolize my grief was to make art.