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Oct 27, 1858, Roland Macy opened Macy’s Department Store in New York City. It was Macy’s eighth business venture — the other seven failed.
So, R.H. Macy became valuable and worth something when he was a “success?”
We often hear people talk about what they earned. What they achieved. What they produced. I wonder what another person, any other person, given the same circumstances, might have produced?
The problem is that many young people, many people period, grow up believing that they have no value. Once a person decides they have no value, everything they do is filtered through the belief that it doesn’t count. Continue Reading →
In Great Britain the country roads are narrow, large enough to manage the biggest vehicles and only if people “give way” on a regular basis, allowing others to pass in an orderly, naturally alternating fashion.
I wonder if that contributes to the general sense of grace and sharing evident in almost every environment?
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
-Martha Washington
I wonder how many “years” worth of hours I have spent (wasted) because I looked at the “circumstances” with the wrong “disposition,” or attitude!
With gratitude to Jo Iglesias
