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Since 1998 I've been sending out these reflections first thing each
week--one or more quotes plus my thoughts about the intersections and
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Quote #1242 - #BeUseful
15 Jun, 2026
BE USEFUL
"The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something."
Barack Obama
"We only have what we give."
Isabel Allende
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived ..."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People put so much stock in getting,
in owning, in
holding,
in possession.
As if we really own anything,
as if anything is really
ours.
And as if having the most toys
(abodes, silks, jewels)
makes anyone happy when they're not.
Today is Barack Obama Appreciation Day,
and I think we all appreciate Barack Obama--
his intelligence, his warmth and savvy,
his grace--
even more than we did when he was President
(don't it always seem to go).
In hard times you can grasp and horde
or you can share and take care
and it always seems the caretakers
are "happier" (whatever that is)
than the hoarders.
You know?
Shellen Lubin
June 15, 2026
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