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a full time artist, stepmother, radio personality, and mom to an energetic Chug dog, tries to get through the days without committing a felonious act. My life is a rickety Zen circus.

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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

wisdom from Teddy (Roosevelt, not bear)

to all the nitpickers, naysayers, self-criticizers, self-haters, worry warts, non-tryers, fearful, self-impatient, feeling invisible people...
You are beautiful.  You have a right to be here.  The world needs you as you are.

and now a few words from Teddy:

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. 

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, 

because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; 

who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly . . .”

Wishing you a day of messy enthusiasms! 

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