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Hope Is In How We Decide To Live Life

Hope is a Labrador retriever. Despair is a slithering mollusk. With hope you take on life as it presents itself. With despair you hide behind a false face and life wanders by unnoticed.

Hope is Amanda's lemonade stand next door last June. A folding chair, a plywood platform, a pitcher and a sign. Amanda watched the street all afternoon, her brown eyes wide. It is a quiet street with little traffic. The pitcher never emptied. But she had a few customers and a reservoir of determination. more...

The Enemy Is Anger

Ruth talks about her anger, but she won't say anger. It's frustration, she tells me, with the million demands at work and home, with no one helping out. Her kids sit in front of TV. Her husband walks past the mountain of laundry. Each night she must get food on the table, clean up, get homework done and bathe the children. How come no one else sees the unmade beds or the stacks of things on the staircase waiting to go up? more...