Scatter the flowers

  photo source "Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember, it didn't work for the rabbit." ~ R.E. Shay, humorist ☘  Can one have "the luck of the Irish" if one isn't Irish?  I don't think I have a bit of Irish in me except I love, love, love sticky toffee pudding that I ate in Ireland so much that I launched a self-founded expedition to order it in every pub since then to compare & contrast (go 8th grade language arts!).  Also, I don't hate Irish coffee.  And I just discovered the goodness of mint Oreos, which I am positive were invented by an Emerald Isle baker.  Irish soda bread is completely lovely.  Let's not forget our fondness for feisty Maureen O'Hara, Liam Neeson, Pierce Brosnan & Bono. So does this mean good luck is only pre-destined for the Irish?  I mean, I feel like the potato famine wasn't lucky.  And did you read Angela's Ashes?  Never have I been more depressed about a people group as a whole.  I

  photo source "I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something I can do." ~Edward Everett Hale, activist for emancipation 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚 The Power of One.   In a big world where we seem to be enveloped by the information communication abyss, it's easy to feel powerless and insignificant.  Even when we use strong language and take our stand we wonder, when there's so much division in our country -will it even make a difference? Will anyone even notice?   Sometimes we purposefully  seek out change, and sometimes we are thrust into it unknowingly.  Each of these stories in this blog are people who made a difference by their actions - men & women of intentionality.  People who had decided long before predicaments who they were and what they wanted to be about.  People of conviction. 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚 Mother Teresa -committing herself to a religious life at the age o