“What is more than memory that connects us always?... what was it I wrote for him, this then-young then-not-young man hungering for fame and acclaim as much or more than burning with something to say? I wrote him a poem called Immortality, assuring him of his, about the immortality we have through connection, through shared experience and the memory of it, through how we touch and alter each other” PurposeDestinyFireFameExperienceMemoryImmortalityConnectionTouchTangled Web Author:Shellen Lubin
“In the greatest hell-- in the fiercest freeze-- the search for truth focuses, the struggle for change empowers, the quest for understanding and connection opens our hearts, the creative venture dances within and without, and we find a way. We will find a way.” TruthUnderstandingChangeCreativityStruggleFocusEmpowermentPersistenceConnectionHell Freezes Over Author:Shellen Lubin
“Trying to think. Thinking about thinking. Thinking about how we hear (and don't hear) each other. Thinking about how we make connection, have an effect on each other. Thinking about how that connection alters ourselves, each other, and the space between us.” ThinkingProcessChangeConnectionHearThinking Through Author:Shellen Lubin
“Labor builds us in ways that games and gyms can't. When you build a house, you have both a house and a builder. When you plant a garden, you have fruits and vegetables, and a gardener, too. When you teach, if you remain open to your students and discovery itself, you have a lifetime of learning. When you tend to someone, you build your own empathy and compassion.” CompassionLearningTeachingBecomingEmpathyLaborMaturityManifestationConnectionBack To School Author:Shellen Lubin
“How do you make hope? For me, it's writing, reading, researching, rehearsing, teaching, coaching, loving--partnering, parenting, friending, all those things that take me outside of myself and take me deeper inside myself at the same time, a beautiful contradictory co-existing reality. We do not know yet what is still to come, but we do know what we can do to find our way through it. Keep making things, keep making hope. It's the least we can do. It's the most we can do.” LoveWritingReadingTeachingPerseveranceConnectionCreateForwardHope Making Author:Shellen Lubin
“We have to find a way to think-- think things through-- think beyond-- go wide-- go deep-- together. One to One and All to All we must Connect Affect Compromise Find a way forward together-- or I truly believe we've lost all hope.” ThinkingHopeCommitmentUnityCompromisePersistenceConnectionDeepForwardThinking Through Author:Shellen Lubin
“Engage with the world and it will hone you, more connected, more able to love all the world, even the hard parts we're going through right now and the hardest parts yet to come.” LovePerseveranceConnectionEngagementChallengeOpenLabor DayConnectShape Author:Shellen Lubin
“Engage with the world and it will hone you, more connected and less frivolous.” FaithFocusBecomingMaturityConnectionEngagementBack To School Author:Shellen Lubin
“You can't truly hear and remain untouched. You can't truly think and remain unaltered.” TruthConnectionThinkTouchHearAlterThinking Through Author:Shellen Lubin
“Day by day we know it more, feel it more. We are all in this together-- all of us-- the whole world, and if we don't work together we may not have our world much longer.” ResponsibilityAwarenessCrisisConnectionTeamworkSensitivityInterconnectednessEmergencyOn Mourning Author:Shellen Lubin
“Tyrants want us at each other's throats. We need each other even more. In isolation, it's so easy to think this is all there ever will be. Together we remember the beauty, the love, the humor, the music, the dance of life-- the belief that it is all a cycle, that it will not always be that way.” LoveHumorFaithHumanityBeautyMusicDanceConnectionSharingShare It Author:Shellen Lubin
“How can you and I connect commune collaborate in any real way if much of the space between us is hidden or that social travesty called "white lies"?” RealityHonestyLetting GoConnectionCollaborationImperfectionCommunionLet It Rain Author:Shellen Lubin