Ten Things that Inspire Me
1. Who you are is life’s gift to you. What you make of yourself is your gift back to life. 2. To be more you, be less you. Do the opposite of what you're used to doing. 3. Your personal record is against yourself and nobody else. 4. Fear is Forgetting Everything’s All Right 5. Put gratitude in your attitude. 6. Live in day-tight compartments. 7. When agitated, pause and breathe deep. 8. Remember the problem in front of you is never as large as the power behind you. 9. Take care of your mind, heart, body and soul each day. 10. You only get to live once and if you do it right, that’s enough.-
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dianabletter
Diana Bletter is the author of several books, including The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women (with photographs by Lori Grinker), shortlisted for a National Jewish Book Award. Her novel, A Remarkable Kindness, (HarperCollins) was published in 2015. She is the First Prize Winner of Moment Magazine's 2019 Fiction Contest. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, tabletmag, Glamour, The Forward, The North American Review, Times of Israel, and is a reporter for Israel21C, and many other publications. She is author of Big Up Yourself: It's About Time You Like Being You and The Mom Who Took off On Her Motorcycle, a memoir of her 10,000-mile motorcycle trip to Alaska and back to New York. She lives in a small beach village in Western Galilee, Israel, with her husband and family. She is a member of the local hevra kadisha, the burial circle, and a Muslim-Jewish-Christian-Druze women's group in the nearby town of Akko. And, she likes snowboarding and climbing trees.
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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Life Goes On!
Life Goes On! Life goes on. The sun still shines. People are digging out of their homes, coping with tragedies, recovering from the damage. Isn’t it strange how the sky is so shockingly blue? Birds sing after a storm, why … Continue reading
Me, Myself and Irene
Good Thing the Tree Fell AWAY From the House We Were Staying in! So, whaddya learn? In Ludlow,Vermont, they learned that rivers can run wild through the main street. InWesthampton, New York, I learned to prepare for the worst and … Continue reading
Keep Breathing!
We made it through the night. Now that it’s light out, it seems less frightening because we can see and not just imagine. We can hear the ocean roaring. We never hear the ocean from our house. It sounds … Continue reading
The Calm Before the Storm
Now I know what that expression means literally. It is so calm right now, so beautiful and peaceful. I am looking out our window at the lovely trees and the sunlight through the leaves. This is the ultimate lesson is … Continue reading
Where You Look is Where You Go
Where you look is where you go. I learned this maxim the hard way. I was riding behind Paul, my motorcycle guru, who was teaching me the basics of motorcycle riding before Jonny and I set off forAlaska. I was … Continue reading
The Four Fundamentals
Today I’m feeling kind of blah…But I don’t want to stay there. And the best way to turn the feeling of blah into ah – or even a moment of ah-ha – is to check on what I call the Four … Continue reading
Part III We sometimes grow and change while those we love stay stuck
This is a segue from yesterday’s topic about changing ourselves. Sometimes the people we love might choose to stay stuck. We might be changing, growing, improving ourselves — while they prefer to live in self-pity and misery. My friend Ramon … Continue reading
Checking Your Motive, Part II
One of my friends wrote back about what I shared about checking our motives. Are they to change us or to change someone else? You are supposed to change yourself. not others. all you can do is remain calm. if … Continue reading
Check Your Motives
I was speaking to a friend, Nora, who told me that her husband, Joe, can be ruthlessly hostile and critical at times. She has tried every which way to tell him that his words are very hurtful but she can’t … Continue reading
Zip the Lip
Wouldya keep your mouth shut? One of the best things I’ve learned about how to make my day run smoother is to get some space between what my brain wants to sputter and what I know my mouth should speak. … Continue reading
DIANA BLETTER 