Warm Idea

If the world seems cold to you,
Kindle fires to warm it!
-Lucy Larcom


Lucy Larcom was an American poet born in Boston in 1824. She died in 1893. She was the ninth of ten children and worked in a cotton mill at which her mother was the superintendent for ten years beginning when she was 11 years old. Her work earned much needed money for her large family. While working she wrote songs, poems, and letters about her life.

Another nice thought

Finding ourselves takes time. It is
hard work and it is worth doing.
- Anne Wilson Schaef

Anne Wilson Schaef, Ph.D., is the author of Women's Reality and Co-Dependence. She is a lecturer, organizational consultant, former psychotherapist, and workshop leader who trains health care professionals throughout the world in Living Process Facilitation. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Moving Toward the New Year

As I reflect on 2008, I am feeling compelled to ask myself how I have touched other lives in my behavior this year. I always generate personal goals for the upcoming year and would like my objectives for 2009 to include personal transformation. We know that change in the world begins with change in ourselves.

The end point of leadership is not just the position of power we reach, but the continual change and deepening we experience that makes a difference in our lives, our work, our world.
- Janet O. Hagberg