Beth Fadelle

"A gentle touch can heal where mighty words fail." — The Wounded Healer

“When we refuse to see the image of God in others, we prepare our hearts for violence. Racism and genocide begin not with weapons, but with a failure to love.” — Behold the Beauty of the Lord

“There are people in the world who are so sick or so angry that they sometimes hurt other people and they’re usually the ones who end up in the news...but when we get sad and angry, you and I, we know what to do with our feelings so we don’t have to hurt other people.”

“If we can be present to the moment with the person that we happen to be with at the moment, that’s what’s important.”

“When your heart can cry another’s sadness, then your heart is full of love.”

“But most things that are important in life start very small and change very slowly, and they don't come with fanfare and bright lights.”

"For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”

It's been close to 20 years since I wrote this statement.

@mattmikalatos My husband, a Canadian who makes my life and our nation better!

Every time we treat someone with dignity rather than shame, respect rather than disregard, concern rather than exploitation, kindness rather than brutality and careful attention rather than turning away – we are doing things that are the reverse of trauma and evil.

Don’t be fooled into thinking someone has strong character when what they really have is a strong persona.

Hope you saw this tonight

Gratitude is not a passive response to something we have been given, gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without and beside us. -David Whyte

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening. - Annie Dillard

It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings. - Wendell Berry

Gratitude is not a passive response to something we have been given, gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without and beside us. - David Whyte (from Consolations)

AMAZING OPPORTUNITY for Black Male High School Seniors. TSU and Meharry Medical College now offer a 7-year combined undergraduate-MD or DDS degree program. They have met their desired goal for enrollment of high school females; however, there are no black males enrolled.

Once in a while, I need to stand in a canyon. Barefoot. Swallowed up. -haiku from 35k feet on @SouthwestAir

@KSPrior Agreed. So honest.

Well, this book was hard to put down.

@KSPrior The young gardener had not expected to be so bored at his new job.

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.