Last night's fortune cookie, "The usefulness of a cup is its emptiness." hmm.
Some cute charm projects from Darcie...
From Mental Floss a quiz of 'Who Said it Jane Austen or Steve Austin?' Harder than I thought.
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a beautiful vintage pic via Elsie's 10 things i love about Sunday... found at flickr
Cincinnati Magazine has an article called, "Move Over, Cupcakes." about macarons describing the difference in a macaron and a macaroon. Interesting... I plan to visit Freida's Desserts in Maderia, never been there, go back to Bonbonerie in O'Bryonville to try theirs, and then seek out Taste of Belgium in Findlay and North Market in Columbus. These little tasties are good enough to seek out!
I saw these Uggs this summer and really like them but they are still 140. too much for cloth boots seriously...
Finally made my way to Goop.com Gweneth's site and viewed a nice fall preview...
Looking back on my blog this weekend searching for something I was reminded why I wanted to start this blog journal. I wanted to live with intention. I think I've made great strides since February of paying attention and creating and being intentional about the every day.
I didn't make it to services today so I was reviewing an earlier sermon when the pastor referenced James Stockdale a former POW. I searched around trying to remember his story and found this on Wikipedia...
In a business book by James C. Collins called Good to Great, Collins writes about a conversation he had with Stockdale regarding his coping strategy during his period in the Vietnamese POW camp.[10]
"I never lost faith in the end of the story, I never doubted not only that I would get out, but also that I would prevail in the end and turn the experience into the defining event of my life, which, in retrospect, I would not trade."[11]
When Collins asked who didn't make it out of Vietnam, Stockdale replied:
"Oh, that’s easy, the optimists. Oh, they were the ones who said, 'We're going to be out by Christmas.' And Christmas would come, and Christmas would go. Then they'd say, 'We're going to be out by Easter.' And Easter would come, and Easter would go. And then Thanksgiving, and then it would be Christmas again. And they died of a broken heart."[11]
Stockdale then added:
"This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”[11]
Also jotted down, "You are not going to find peace in your circumstances. It comes from elsewhere and from within."
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