“Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up they will change the world.”
— Jack Ma
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Posts Tagged ‘inspiration’
Grow a New World
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, creativity, inspiration, Thoughts, writing on November 29, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Say Hello!
Posted in Science!, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, astronomy, inspiration, meteor shower, space on November 16, 2025| Leave a Comment »
We Earthlings are in the middle of the Leonid meteor shower. It takes place this year from November 6th through the 30th, but will peak overnight tonight. Even better, the moon is only 9% full, so the only competition will be from human light sources.
Leonid meteor shower: All you need to know in 2025
The Leonid meteor shower is back! Leonid meteors are already flying. The peak is on the morning of November 17.
Love this animation!
Meteor Showers 2025 – 2026 – American Meteor Society
So tonight, if you find yourself in a place with clear skies, look up.
The Universe is saying hello.
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Ripple Effects
Posted in Holidays, Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, inspiration, kindness, Thoughts on November 13, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Happy Kindness Day! Not that you should limit kindness to just one day, but a little reminder can be useful. And knowing that people around you are more predisposed to be kind today?
That’s a good thing, and it’s catching!
If you’re going to be kind to another human, today is the day to do it!
Some hardhearted souls may even question whether small acts of kindness really matter. Spoiler alert: They do!
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“And here’s the beautiful part: When someone receives kindness, they don’t just feel better, they become better.”
The bonus is that a little kindness is good for both the recipient and the giver. Win win!
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
— William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice
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Future Memories
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, inspiration, live well, Thoughts on November 11, 2025| Leave a Comment »
We held two memorials this weekend, both opportunities to come together around happy memories and shared stories. It also got me thinking (in a positive way!) about what comes after—not in terms of heaven (or that other place) but how to live and the world you leave behind.
Today is also Veterans Day in the US and Remembrance Day in Canada, an ideal time to think about those who came before and what they did for their world, and ours.
Given that, this quote seemed like a good fit for today.
Decide what you would like your obituary to say and live the life to deserve it.
— Warren Buffett
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Another Type of Magic
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, inspiration, Thoughts on November 6, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“The closest thing we can get to a crystal ball is history.”
— Jennifer Lawrence
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Nothing, and Everything
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, #WhereDoIdeasComeFrom, creativity, inspiration, Thoughts on November 2, 2025| Leave a Comment »
My office is filled with random yet interesting items. Maybe a color caught my eye, or a puzzle, or a map (or a bit of pottery, a magic wand, a decoder ring, a set of travel watercolors, or or or). All things that spark my creativity or capture an experience I want to remember.
For example: Mr Man and I had a special dinner a while back.
Appetizer: mussels steamed with a great deal of garlic and a perfectly reasonable amount of white wine.
Flavor: excellent.
Bonus: an unexpected gift, the tiniest pearl I have ever seen.
Taking a picture of it was a challenge, it’s that small.
I keep it in memory of that night. It’s worth nothing, and everything.
“But the pearls were accidents, and the finding of one was luck, a little pat on the back by God or the gods both.”
– John Steinbeck
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Some Days You Just Need to Watch a Baby Elephant Play with a Pumpkin
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, funny, inspiration, something nice on October 30, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Some days you just need to watch a baby elephant play with a pumpkin. If today is that sort of day for you, you’re welcome!
A baby elephant stole the show at Oregon Zoo’s pumpkin-smashing event | AP News
A baby elephant at the Oregon Zoo had more tricks than treats to show when handlers gave it a small pumpkin to play with during an annual fall event where giant elephants smash half-ton pumpkins.
Freaking adorable.
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A Nice Reminder
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, art, creativity, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers on October 22, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Here’s an illustrated short by Rich Wells, capturing an epiphany he had outside a tire shop.
“I thought l’d take the words from my notebook and make something visual.
A reminder to myself that all this everyday stuff – admin, errands, school runs, park trips, waiting in lines, meal times –
it’s all a gift”
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Learning Stuff
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, inspiration, learning stuff, Thoughts on October 21, 2025| Leave a Comment »
It’s a brave act to embrace incompetence. What’s delightful is that it’s a temporary state.
— Michael Bungay Stanier
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Art of the Possible
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, inspiration, possibilities, scifi, Thoughts, Writers, writing on October 20, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
— Ray Bradbury
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