A guess at the encouragement I'll need this week

• S 11/30/14: the important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. -Baron de Coubertin
• M 12/01: open your hands if you want to be held/ sit down in this circle/ Quit acting like a wolf, and feel/ the Shepherd's love filling you -Rumi
• T 12/02: We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past. -Derek Walcott
• W 12/03: Their toddlerhood is their first toddlerhood, their adolescence their first adolescence, and their adulthood whatever on earth that means might as well be their infancy. When we meet a man on the street, we are meeting a newborn. -Marc Barnes
• R 12/04: Such things have been revealed to me that all I have written is so much straw. -Aquinas
• F 12/05: What batters you becomes your strength -Rainer Marie Rilke
• S 12/06: Each mortal thing does one thing and the same/ Deals out that being indoors each one dwells/ Selves-goes itself; myself it speaks and spells/ Crying what I do is me: for this I came. -Gerard Manley Hopkins