Quotes of the Week from Me:

“When things get tangled, start with patience.”

“To teach is to learn.”

“A good cast starts with height and distance, a great one ends with the right bait in the right location.”

Quotes of the Week from Others:

“You will earn the respect of all if you begin by earning the respect of yourself.”

– Musonius Rufus

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.” – Lao Tzu

“If you want to paint, first you need an empty canvas. If you want to know music, you need to know silence.” – Sadhguru

Quick Optimism:

Wake up and go. Just go.

Question of the Week:

Have you ever gone fishing?

I went this past week, and it was a blast. For those less familiar, fishermen tend to head to the water on the bookends of the day. Morning or early evening are the best times to go. But when your toddler gets a new fishing rod, timing isn’t always an option.

You go when the enthusiasm hits. You go after hearing, “Can we go fishing?” for the 150^th time, even as we are opening the car door to… go fishing. That level of excitement is my favorite.

At the dock, we caught a stick, got tangled in the dock, twisted our lines together, and even lost some bait from casting at the same time and knocking our rods together.

I guess the saying goes, “If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. But if you give a toddler a fish, he may or may not touch it. If you teach a toddler to fish, you never know what he might catch.”