TheMommyBlog

"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
—Winston Churchill

I had a dream last night where I went from a dinner where I argued while my family found endless fault with me, to crashing somebody else's car, to leaving my wallet on a table in a restaurant and watched as not one, but two people—separately!—emptied it of money, credit cards, and children's photos, to walking a loooong way home that involved cutting through a hotel (avoiding Stormtroopers who evidently had no idea where they were going but did it in perfect formation), climbing a steep slope that ended in a sheer cliff so that you had to jump three feet to the left to continue on level ground, to trying desperately to call a friend in need using a phone with half the numbers missing.

Then, as I woke this morning, I suddenly remembered the correct phrasing of the quote from R. Buckminster Fuller: "If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf." I remembered it as "To be a good leader [parent, partner, friend], one must be sometimes blind and often deaf." I like my version better.