I'm a work in progress, and I hope I will never be complete

Stare into a mirror through a single pane of glass Adore the reflection for the image will soon pass

He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn

It is all too easy not to see ourselves for who we truly are, especially when our seeming faults appear to be glaring...but more than likely, they're only glaring because of the spotlight we put on them.