Breakfast Oops...Soaring

Shoot! I meant to take a picture of my breakfast, but since it's already gone to the place where all good breakfasts go, I'll just have to tell you. It was a nice, soft, round, perfect glazed donut, one of those high-risers. So I carefully set it on top of, and inside my bookbag before leaving for work. Once at work, I savored the moment until the donut was mine. I reached it, and pulled out a pancake-flat, round, un-perfect donut. Yes, it was good, but the flat ones never taste as good as the poofy ones!

So today there's a posting about a USU flight instructor, just because I thought it was interesting. It also reminded me to encourage everyone I know to go for their dreams, and to go for mine also. I remember telling a friend once of my life-long passion for writing, and how I was writing a book and hoping to find a publisher. My friend's reply was, "You'll never be able to earn a living writing." The decision was clear to me then, don't ever repeat those words or anything like them to anyone else. We all need encouragement from time to time, and sometimes we need a lot of encouragement for a long period of time. Positive reinforcement brings positive results, no matter what the pursuit is.

One of my favorite sayings is from Helen Keller,
"One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar".

When I graduated from USU in 2003 after a 23 break in my education, that saying kept going through my mind as we processed from the Quad to the Spectrum for the commencement ceremony. That feeling of soaring is something incredible to feel. Have a soaring day!