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"It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now...with its aches and it pleasures...is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive."
- Pema Chodron

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"No amount of broccoli is ever acceptable."
- Ricardo

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"A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day."
- ancient proverb

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"God loves you and there's nothing you can do about it!"
- All Pilgrim Christian Church of Seattle

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"There is no use trying," said Alice, "one can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
-Lewis Carroll

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"You are so infinitely sweet!"- Zelda Fitzgerald

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“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
- P.J. O’Rourke

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“Yesterday EM brought cupcakes from Sweet Sallie's, so I wrapped the remainders in aluminum foil for her and shaped the foil into a kitty cat head. Tomorrow, I hope, we will start filling the pool. This will enable me to deal with the stress of my week without resorting to cupcakes and foil sculpting on a daily basis.”
- RB

(You will be on vacation soooon!)

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"From now on, all creatures with fur and four legs will be considered puppies until proven guilty...of not being a puppy."
- FJH

(the lovely Lucy Paul)

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"All in good time."- Cervantes

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"Some daddies are writers, or grocery sellers
Or painters or welders, or funny-joke tellers
Some daddies play cello, or sail on the sea"
- Carol Hall, "Parents are People," Free to Be...You and Me

(Atticus and me in Seattle, summer 2008)

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“I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I’m going to take a stand. Right or wrong, I’m going to defend it."
- Cameron, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

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"You are in my mind, inbetween red lights and meetings, inbetween sips of tea and ringing phones..."
- Brenda Finne

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"It's not a job, it's a calling."- SA, accepting WA Women's Foundation's grant to Refugee Women's Alliance

Psst...check out the amazing work of the other winners:
Seattle Music Partners
Healthy Start
Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition
Emergency Food Network

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"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
- John Adams

(Recommended viewing)

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"Is it too much to demand
I want a full house and a rock and roll band
Pens that won't run out of ink
And cool quiet and time to think"
- Mary Chapin Carpenter

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"Today my head is full of dreams of ocean views, sitting lazily on a beach, eating summer produce (corn and strawberries), being near family again, sleeping with an ocean breeze and being near the deep woods (and the incredible green smells that come with that)."
- Keri Smith (via)

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"To live content with small means;
to seek elegance rather than luxury;
and refinement rather than fashion;
to be worthy, not respectable;
and wealthy, not rich;
to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly;
to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart;
to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasion, hurry never;
in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common.
This is to be my symphony."
- William Henry Channing

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"The spoonage here is completely unacceptable."
- Bob, regarding the 3rd floor kitchen

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"Woman was born to create...In creating she becomes herself, accomplishes her destiny. Her whole life is only an initiation into creative power. To create is not merely to produce a work...it is to give out one's own individuality."
-Jeanne De Vietinghoff (via)

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"Loading the dishwasher isn't instinctive."
- Ricardo

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"Baking is wonderful! It's like science for hungry people!"
- Hannelore, QC #1679

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"I am adorable."
- FJH

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“Be like a duck. Remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath."
- Michael Caine

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"I'm not saying that a degree in Folklore and Mythology won't help your daughter land a job, but a gift certificate for a useful vocational course makes a handy present."
- Patricia Marx, "Graduation Graft," The New Yorker