Some things to smile on, some things to think on

 

"I took this photo at Longwood Gardens during the big tulip bloom. I loved watching the woman in front of me with her daughter and felt moved to quickly snap a photo. What I didn’t realize until I pulled the image off my camera was that coming toward us was a daughter pushing her mother in a wheelchair. It was like these two end points on a continuum were heading toward each other, ready to cross in the middle. We are loved when we are carried, and loved when we are the carriers."
Credit: Emilie Kleiner/Daily Dose of Kindness

Some things to consider and some things to smile on

 

I had a great time on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as Tina Turner-Morfitt and I 

covered the Oregon Coalition of Black Trade Unionists table at the NAACP 

community event. What a great blessing to have such a patient teacher and leader next to me!

Some things to think on and some things to smile on

Some things to study on and smile on

 

Some nice things to study on or smile on

 

Some things to think about, some things to ponder, some things to do

Friend of Sea Wolf Books recommendation from Bob—

Thomas Bell's novel "Out of This Furnace" (1941) tells the story of several generations

of Slovak immigrants in Pennsylvania. It is not the common and idealized story of immigrants,

but the flesh-and-blood story of people who worked on the railroads and in the steel mills. A

reader can cry and laugh through the book and share the hopes of the steel workers and their

families in the closing chapters. My family were not Slovak immigrants, and they did not work

in the steel mills, but there is so much there from my grandparents' and parents' generations that

I could easily locate something of my family's story there. The book can be raw in sections, but

it is always honest. I reread passages from the book at certain times of the year every year as an act

of memory and of thanking and honoring those who have passed on. The book is one of the most popular published by University of Pittsburgh Press and is used in some college classes. Attempts

have been made to turn it into a film as well.

Available through Sea Wolf Books at: https://bookshop.org/a/87294/9780822952732