“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” ~
Christopher Reeve
Thought for Today
Thought for Today
“In every community, there is work to be done.
In every nation, there are wounds to heal.
In every heart, there is the power to do it.” ~ Marianne Williamson
Everybody Sing!
Thought for Today
“To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater. “ — Bono
Thought for Today
“If there’s any message to my work, it is ultimately that it’s OK to be different, that it’s good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.” — Johnny Depp
Thought for Today
“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” — Coco Chanel
Limited Thinking Limits Ability
I may have mentioned I have worked with individuals with disabilities. The last time was in middle management, supervising staff and providing case management for clients.
There were so many times staff members had decided someone could not do or learn to do a certain task, when in reality they could do the task, just in a different way. Learning to use the telephone does not require the ability to read. Putting on one’s own shoes does not require being able to tie shoelaces if you wear shoes with Velcro, slip-ons or even cowboy boots. Not being able to see that being “disabled” is often simply being “differently abled” was putting unnecessary limitations on people.
How many times do we decide we can’t do something when we really need to be looking for a different way to do it?
Thought for Today
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept and celebrate those differences.” — Audre Lorde
Thought for Today
 “Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love.” — Tom Hannah |
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Zucchini Bread
Photo copyright 2013 by R.A. Robbins
Last week I found myself at a small town farmer’s market. One of the things that came home with me was a zucchini. Some of it went into zucchini and tomatoes and the rest found it’s way into the lovely loaf of gluten free zucchini bread pictured above. I used my mother’s zucchini bread recipe with my usual substitutions — agave nectar, flax seed meal and hot water, unsweetened applesauce, buckwheat flour and all purpose gluten free flour. I also added chopped walnuts and to be just a little naughty chocolate chips. You can convert your own recipes. It’s not that hard, but it can take a little time and experimentation to figure out your substitutions.
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