Comments on: Read, and heard, and thought today. http://myimprovisationallife.com/2009/03/25/read-and-heard-and-thought-today/ I'm making it all up as I go along. Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:33:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Heather http://myimprovisationallife.com/2009/03/25/read-and-heard-and-thought-today/#comment-1996 Heather Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:42:32 +0000 http://myimprovisationallife.com/?p=149#comment-1996 Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.

]]> By: wellroundedtype2 http://myimprovisationallife.com/2009/03/25/read-and-heard-and-thought-today/#comment-1993 wellroundedtype2 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:27:40 +0000 http://myimprovisationallife.com/?p=149#comment-1993 Thank you for these reminders. I have this quote up at work, from a Sark book, "You are enough. You do enough. You have enough." The moment that captured this for me yesterday was as my little 4-year-old was crying that she didn't want to go to school (daycare), and I told her I would kiss all of her clothes so they had mommy kisses on them and they would be with her all day. "No!" she said. So I said I would hug all of her clothes, so she would have mommy hugs on them all day and she nodded. So I pulled out a long-sleeved t-shirt and gave it a big hug, and a pair of sweat pants and gave them a hug, and a pair of Dora underpants and gave those a hug, and a pair of fairy princess socks, and gave those a hug, and her tears stopped, and together, we got her dressed. I'll be on the lookout for today's moment. Thanks again. Thank you for these reminders.

I have this quote up at work, from a Sark book,
“You are enough.
You do enough.
You have enough.”

The moment that captured this for me yesterday was as my little 4-year-old was crying that she didn’t want to go to school (daycare), and I told her I would kiss all of her clothes so they had mommy kisses on them and they would be with her all day. “No!” she said. So I said I would hug all of her clothes, so she would have mommy hugs on them all day and she nodded. So I pulled out a long-sleeved t-shirt and gave it a big hug, and a pair of sweat pants and gave them a hug, and a pair of Dora underpants and gave those a hug, and a pair of fairy princess socks, and gave those a hug, and her tears stopped, and together, we got her dressed.

I’ll be on the lookout for today’s moment. Thanks again.

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]]> By: Meowser http://myimprovisationallife.com/2009/03/25/read-and-heard-and-thought-today/#comment-1991 Meowser Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:47:23 +0000 http://myimprovisationallife.com/?p=149#comment-1991 I love the Williamson quote. But contrary to popular belief, there is no record of Mandela ever using it in either of his inaugural speeches (one in Cape Town and one in Pretoria). The Cape Town speech is <a href="http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/1994/inaugct.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>, the Pretoria speech is <a href="http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/1994/inaugpta.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. No one has ever found any official record of Mandela ever quoting that passage at all; Williamson herself would be the first one to boast about it if he ever did, and she has always denied it. I love the Williamson quote.

But contrary to popular belief, there is no record of Mandela ever using it in either of his inaugural speeches (one in Cape Town and one in Pretoria). The Cape Town speech is here, the Pretoria speech is here. No one has ever found any official record of Mandela ever quoting that passage at all; Williamson herself would be the first one to boast about it if he ever did, and she has always denied it.

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