SHIFT HAPPENS PONDERINGS

For Pondering: Try repositioning your aim and sharpening your focus.

For Pondering: Most things worth doing require getting your hands messy, and can be a lot more fun with friends.

For Pondering: What collaborators can you rely on this week to help shove the pieces of your life together?

For Pondering: I have a feeling that the next big wave of change in common sense legislation will be driven by politically active high-schoolers who are not influenced by campaign contributions.

For Pondering on President's Day: "I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging...

For Pondering: "Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not weakness; it's our greatest measure of courage." ~Brene Brown This Valentine's week, risk showing up...

For Pondering: I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadows. If I fail, if I succeed, at least I'll live as I believe. No matter what they take from me, they can't take away my dignity. ~ Whitney Houston

For Pondering: "Wage peace. Never has the world seemed so fresh and precious: Have a cup of tea and rejoice. Act as if armistice has already arrived. Celebrate today." ~Judyth Hill, "Wage Peace"

For Pondering: Regardless of the landscape or the weather, stay committed to the race to which you have committed yourself.

For Pondering: "When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and...