What defines us is how well we rise after falling

Quote from Maid in Manhattan

The touching and inspiring story of Rachel Barton Pine

Wonderful outlook on life and touching perspective on belief
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A Young Hasidic Principle Changes one Bronx Junior-High

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Skating Blind: One woman's triumph over adversity

Touching story of a woman who has gone blind yet continues to skate -- an inspirational vignette of a triumph of the human spirit over adversity

 

From all my teachers I was erudited and from my students more than anyone else

From the Mishna, tractate of Aboth
מכל מלמדי השכלתי ומתלמידי יותר מכולן

Blaze a trail of desire, through the darkening dawn

Stanza from Carly Simon's Let the River Run
Just love the imagery and cadence of this phrasing blaze a trail of desire, through the darkening dawn. I find something inspiring, exhilarating, about it that captures the imagination

Let the River Run

We're coming to the edge,
Running on the water,
Coming through the fog,
Your sons and daughters.

Let the river run,
Let all the dreamers
Wake the nation.
Come, the New Jerusalem.

Silver cities rise,
The morning lights
The streets that meet them,
And sirens call them on
With a song.

It's asking for the taking.
Trembling, shaking.
Oh, my heart is aching.

We're coming to the edge,
Running on the water,
Coming through the fog,
Your sons and daughters.

We the great and small
Stand on a star
And blaze a trail of desire
Through the dark'ning dawn.

It's asking for the taking.
Come run with me now,
The sky is the color of blue
You've never even seen
In the eyes of your lover.

Oh, my heart is aching.
We're coming to the edge,
Running on the water,
Coming through the fog,
Your sons and daughters.

It's asking for the taking.
Trembling, shaking.
Oh, my heart is aching.

We're coming to the edge,
Running on the water,
Coming through the fog,
Your sons and daughters.

Let the river run,
Let all the dreamers
Wake the nation.
Come, the New Jerusalem.