“A year ago, we worried about dwindling N95-mask supplies …. Now we are burning through our most irreplaceable health-care resource: hope.” Chavi Karkowsky, MD

“It is very difficult to over-encourage someone.” Mark Greenawald, MD (a principle I live by)

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” Leonardo da Vinci

“Whatever you add on to ‘I am’ will be added on to you.”   Unknown

“If I knew this was the last time I’ll see you, I’d tell you I love you, and would not just foolishly assume you know it already. “ Gabriel Garcia Marquez, novelist

“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.”  Charles Schaefer, PhD

“It’s halftime for 2021!” said June 30th    

“You don't pay love back; you pay it forward." Lily Hardy Hammond

“Together we will create brave space. Because there is no such thing as a ‘safe space’ …” — Micky ScottBey Jones

“Having a need and needing help is not a sign that you’re weak, it’s a sign that you’re human.” – Kate Northrup, Author

“When we push aside normal emotions to embrace false positivity, we lose our capacity to develop skills to deal with the world as it is, not as we wish it to be.”   Susan David, PhD (Emotional Agility)

“I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure …. When you shut down vulnerability you shut down opportunity.” Brene Brown

“We live in a world that celebrates work and activity, ignores renewal and recovery, and fails to recognize that both are necessary for sustained high performance.”   Jim Loehr, PhD

“Friendship is always an act of recognition …. If you realize how vital to your whole spirit — and being and character and mind and health — friendship actually is, you will take time for it.” John O’Donohue

“A minor operation is one that is done on someone else.”  Richard Selzer, MD

“And now you know … the rest of the story.” Paul Harvey, legendary radio personality

“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.” EB White, author of “Charlotte’s Web”

“What’s your ‘word’?  Mine is Zilience!”  Me