“I love work and working and how it shapes you. When you build a house, you have both a house and a builder. When you plant a garden, you have plants and a gardener, too. When you teach, if you remain open to the discovery itself, you have a lifetime of learning.” WorkTeachTeachingBuildingDiscoveryGardenGardeningDirectionDiscoverLabor Day Author:Shellen Lubin
“The most important quality we bring to everything we do (work, play, creating, loving, parenting, friending, teaching, learning) is to care, to start from a place of caring and to care throughout the process. With care, there are unlimited possibilities-- without care, pitfalls dead ends trip us up knock us down bury us. This is your life. Allow difference mess even chaos. But not Indifference. Handle With Care.” LoveLifePlayCareWorkTeachPossibilityLearnCreateHandle With Care Author:Shellen Lubin
“Handle with care. Me. You. All we do. It doesn't mean do everything for anyone or something for everyone but it does mean to do it the most care-fully you are able. I strive for that each moment-- fail miserably much of the time, but still try-- whether work, play loving, writing-- to do it as care-fully as I might-- for myself and those I love, yes, but also for the ripple effects-- the butterfly-wing-flapping effects-- in places unknowable and unknown.” LovePlayCareWorkAwarenessSelf LoveMindfulnessWriteInterconnectednessCarefully Author:Shellen Lubin
“The making of art allows for full immersion, deepest engagement, flow like no else. Well, maybe one else: the learning of anything that you really-- really-- want to know, which can be an art form itself, Lose yourself to find yourself. Find yourself through losing yourself in the delicious process of discovery.” ArtProcessWorkLearningFocusDiscoveryFlowSelf DiscoveryEngagementFully Immersed Author:Shellen Lubin
“The state of focus is my favorite land to inhabit, complete immersion.” ProcessWorkLearningFocusDisciplineCommitmentFully Immersed Author:Shellen Lubin
“Labor has four parts to celebrate: work, rest from work, appreciation of the work done (yours and others), and the recognition of how your work has shaped you. When you build a house, you have both a house and a builder. When you plant a garden, you have plants and a gardener, too. When you teach, if you remain open to the discovery itself, you have a lifetime of learning. Engage with the world and it will hone you, more connected, more able to love all the world, including all the hard parts.” LoveWorkLearningTeachingBuildingDiscoveryImpactAppreciationRestLaboring Author:Shellen Lubin
“We are as much a result of the work we do as the product of that work will ever be.” WorkResultsHealthDignityValueAppreciationProductHuman BeingLaboring Author:Shellen Lubin
“I have learned well the roles and scripts we people create for ourselves, and how afraid most people are of stepping outside them, more comfortable (even if more miserable) to keep their bubbles in place, even if those bubbles are delusions of grandeur that lead to illusions of impossibility, even when shown there is another way, a way that is more challenging, but also more gratifying.” StoriesFearWorkImpossibleIllusionDelusionChallengeRewardProfessionally Unreasonable Author:Shellen Lubin
“There is power in continuing to work to strive to serve to love to do good to clean up from bad to rest to question to try to find balance even when the purpose is unclear, even when the value is murky, even when you can't see the path forward and there's no end in sight. There is power in effort. There is power in persistence. There is power in Continuing on.” LoveWorkBalanceStriveValuePersistenceRestQuestionServeContinue On Author:Shellen Lubin
“Love and work. Work and love. Whatever it is we do, whoever it is we love, hopefully we make something better with it all-- our lives, our community, our country, the world.” WorldLoveLifeCountryHopeGrowthCommunityWorkGratitudeImprovement Author:Shellen Lubin
“...we all need relief. And oh, how we need relief right now, a vacation from this perpetual tension, in so many directions all at the same time-- health, work, family, home, community, country-- and seemingly never letting up. We need a moment each day, an hour each week, a morning or evening every so often, an entire day. Relief. Sweet, soothing relief. Oh, how we need relief.” CountryHomeCommunityWorkFamilyHealthTensionReliefSelf CareRebalance Through Relief Author:Shellen Lubin
“There is much to be done. We cannot keep going. We keep going.” PurposeHopeChallengesWorkPerseveranceLight Web Author:Shellen Lubin
“We have to stand up for what is right-- work, march, struggle for what is right-- but we must stay vigilant that it is for the good of all” WorkStruggleMarchCommon GoodStand UpMartin Luther King JrMartin Luther KingGreater GoodMlk DayDivine Discontent Author:Shellen Lubin
“Timothy Snyder has already left for Canada. Follow the great thinkers. Read them, take their words in deeply, and see where they go and when. Is it really all about money and acquisition? Not my life, my work, my days, my priorities.” ThinkingLifeTimeReadingWorkMoneyPrioritiesCanadaWatchGet Me Out Of Here Author:Shellen Lubin