GENEVIEVE'S GEMS

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

~Epictetus, Philosopher (50-138)

GENEVIEVE'S GEMS

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom. 


~Rumi, Poet (1207-1273)

Genevieve's Gems

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. 


~John Burroughs

Genevieve's Gems

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

~Jim Rohm, Businessman (1930-2009)

Genevieve's Gems

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

~Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman (1834-1892)

Wisdom Of The Elders

I was chatting with an 85 year old member of my church. For nearly an hour, I listened as she shared stories of her childhood and young years. I marveled at the joy and wisdom she has about life. I've known Carmen only a short time but whenever she spoke it was from her years of experience.

One of aspects I believe is being lost is the wisdom of the elders being inparted on the young. I am a member of two cultures with  oral traditions. I enjoy listening to others share their experiences.

I am a nature lover and whenever I'm out in it I let it consume me.  As a child I loved venturing into the woods, against my mother's wishes. I have wondered if my being transgender was part of a Native American prophecy. The wisdom of others can serve as a reminder that we too carry the torch of being seers, shamans, and historians to younger generations.

GENEVIEVE'S GEMS

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

GENEVIEVE'S GEMS

Part of being an activist is that I be willing to go against conventional wisdom. It is also the willingness to stand in the face of bigotry and oppression.