6:24 pm - 01-16-06
care
Care for yourself as much as you care for others. If you care enough to do something about another's pain and suffering, care enough to do something for your own. Care whether she's had a rotten day, and care enough to tell her so. Care enough to speak up when someone fouls your planet. Care about the old, the young, the sick, and insist that your elected officials care, too. Care lovingly for your belongings so they will last longer. Care lovingly for your friendships so they will last a lifetime. Care whether you get the worst table in a restaurant. Care whether your new jacket rips a week after you bought it. Make sure the store cares, too. Care whether there are still wild, sacred places you can visit in silence. Care whether the movie includes thirty-four murders and seven rapes, and demand that Hollywood care, too. Care that babies are having babies and that babies are killing babies. Whenever you want to say I don't care, ask yourself If not me, then who?
~ taken from Words of Wisdom for Women by Rachel Snyder
6:24 pm - 01-16-06
ignore
Ignore ignorant minds and ignorant actions. When half-truths or untruths are cast in your direction, ignore them. When you receive letters filled with vituperative trash, tear them up and throw them into the fire. To repel unwanted and untoward advances, ignore them. Ignore all kinds of verbal slings and arrows. Turn away, turn around, and walk away. Turn the other cheek. Say Good-bye, and then hang up the phone. Pay no attention to the ravings of jealous fools. Ignore unfounded slurs on your character and your reputation. Give them no fuel, and they will eventually die out. To reject, ignore. To snuff, ignore. You suffer no ignominy when you choose to ignore.
~ taken from Words of Wisdom for Women by Rachel Snyder
6:23 pm - 01-16-06
ache
Feel deep down inside the pain of missing someone or something so badly it hurts. Notice the empty spaces around your heart that need filling. Tune into other aches in your body. When your belly burns with a red-hot fire, pay attention. What is the true source of your ache? What you are trying to digest that's too large, too hot, too unfamiliar to handle? Ache for the love you had then lost. Ache to be held, to be touched, to be adored. Let your heart ache and break and ache again - until it grows stronger and more able to open with ease.
~ taken from Words of Wisdom for Women by Rachel Snyder
6:22 pm - 01-16-06
wane
Withdraw with the moon. Go inward. Move away from the hustle and bustle of productivity and outward activity. Honor your urge to pull back, to quite yourself. Heighten your sensitivity to your surroundings, to the way the affect your energy and your attitude. Stay a bit closer to home, stay warm, stay rested. Stay open to dreams, visions, and ideas that may come to you when you wane. Respect your cycles, your energetic ebb and flow. Choose this time to be alone, to close the drapes and turn down the phone. Let yourself wane, and trust in the knowledge that you'll soon wax again.
~ taken from Words of Wisdom for Women by Rachel Snyder
