Tag: e. Merrill Root

  • No 24 – 6-15-18 “Run the Great Risk”

    “I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favor of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the…

  • No 52 12-29-17 Happy New Year!

    No 52 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, December 29, 2017 Happy New Year 2018! “To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself, it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one…

  • No 21 Reflect on your past blessings! 5-26-17

    No 21 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, May 26, 2017 “Reflect on your past blessings” “Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many–not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” – Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870) English Novelist We must all have regrets and thoughts of…

  • No 39. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, September 25, 2015 A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live. — Unknown We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to…

  • Life is Miracle and Magic 4-3-15

    No 14. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, April 3, 2015 Life is Miracle and Magic We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic. — E. Merrill Root…