“I need the gratitude-- not to be happy-- the joy and sweetness will come when they do-- but to regain the strength for the struggle to keep working to make it better.” — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
“Love and work. Work and love. Whatever it is we do, whoever it is we love, hopefully we make something better with it all-- our lives, our community, our country, the world.” — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
“I've written about persistence and perseverance and yet for those of us with patchwork lives (projects, earnings, caretaking, home-tending, playing, friending, loving, celebrating, hurting,… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
“This is one of the harshest after effects of the pandemic that I am witnessing some and experiencing some, a diminished ability to deal… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
“When I talk about persistence, it isn't about persistence of equal measure every day. It's about not giving up on whatever is important to… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
“When all else fails, go away completely, however long feels necessary.” — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
“It's not that there is nothing real to fear-- it is that fear itself is not rationally based-- it's projecting into the future-- as… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
“How do any of us find the strength to keep going? Because the work itself is empowering and fulfilling. And because we are not… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
“I think there is a place where hopefulness and hopelessness co-exist, one of my beloved contradictory co-existing realities (what others call a paradox, but paradoxes… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
“Nobody adores fertilizer. Nobody devotes their life to fertilizer (unless they own a fertilizer company). But, shit, you need it to grow the crops.… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
“It's been a relief to not have to fight so hard for at least a large group of us to question the old orthodoxy.… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
“This is a critical year--maybe the last critical year if we get this wrong--when we are all challenged to recognize how we have benefitted… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
“This is one of the harshest after effects of the pandemicthat I am witnessing someand experiencing some,a diminished ability to deal with resistance,and soa… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
“We live in anxious times, my love, anxiety-producing times. It doesn't mean we have to be anxious, but if we've got it, we've got… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
