January 2011
25 posts
“Enjoyment is always bound up with gratitude; if this gratitude is deeply felt it...”
– (Melanie Klein, Envy and gratitude and other works, 1946-1963, 1975, p. 310)
“There are only two basic emotions that we all experience, love and fear. All...”
– Mary Kurus
"Grandma next door" poet a Japan bestseller at 99
(Reuters) - A 99-year-old woman writing about love, dreams and hanging on to hope has touched the hearts of Japanese worn out by years of a lagging economy, propelling her self-published poetry book onto bestseller lists.
Toyo Shibata’s success with her first anthology, titled “Don’t be Too Frustrated,” is all the more surprising because she only picked up her pen at the...
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are...”
– Marianne Williamson
“I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love,...”
– Dr. Maya Angelou
A Door Into Top Kitchens for French North African...
By STEVEN ERLANGER
SARCELLES, France — In some ways, it is just a drop of costly olive oil in a turbid lake, but for 15 women from this poor Paris suburb, it is a chance for a stable and nourishing, if difficult, career.
Inspired by former President Clinton’s admonition for every businessman to do what he can to help others, Alain Ducasse, chef and patron extraordinaire, is putting the 15 women...
WatchFacebook COO Sheryl Sandberg looks at why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top of their professions — and offers 3 powerful pieces of advice to women aiming for the C-suite.
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Brene Brown studies human connection — our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk at TEDxHouston, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. A talk to share.
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
– Joseph Chilton Pearce
Brazil's first female president
Brazilian voters have elected their first female head of government, a woman running for elected office for the first time.
Dilma Rousseff’s story is intertwined with the last half-century of Brazil’s history. She is the daughter of an immigrant, and has been a guerrilla, a torture victim, an economist, an energy minister and the president’s chief of staff.
Rousseff was born...
