The Jennifer Blogs

This blog is for my dear friend, Yumi. Some encouraging words:
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Fall seven times; stand up eight. ~ Japanese Proverb
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. ~ Ivy Baker Priest
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny compared to what lies within us. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

And possibly my favorite one for you, Yumi, is this:
Remember, when the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. ~ Barbara Bloom

Feel better, Yumi.