Posts by Patty Eskridge

“YOU are the primary person who can change your life.”  – Angel Chernoff Are You Waiting for Permission? Are you waiting for permission to call yourself an artist? A writer? A <fill in the blank>? Why?? If you had told me 45 years ago that I’d be an artist, I would have laughed and said,…

Life doesn’t get easier, you just get stronger. – Angel Chernoff “What’s Everybody Else’s Excuse?†If you happened to see the CBS Sunday Morning Show in August of 2020, then you were introduced to a 37- year-old man named Matt Stutson.  At the time, Matt was one of the top ranked archers in the United…

Take a deep breath and do that crazy thing that just popped into your head! Go on, you can do it!! – Patty Eskridge How Many Times? How many times have you said, “I wish I had had the courage to _______.â€? At the time, you may have thought you weren’t good enough, or that…

“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.† – Salvadore Dali In anything the Navajo create, they always leave a slight imperfection; so slight that it is almost unnoticeable. Why? Because they believe only God is perfect and humans are unable to achieve the same perfect level. Shew! I just felt a load lifted…

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. – Picasso What do Julia Child, Momofuku Ando, Anna Mary Robertson Moses, Laura Ingalls Wilder, John Glenn, and Yuichiro Miura have in common?  They were all individuals who achieved success later in life. Some of them much later in life. Julia…

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain For over 25 years, I’ve been a member of my church handbell choir, but the surprising thing is, I can’t read music. I only…

“Failure is a Matter of Perspective.” – Patty Eskridge A Bright Idea Thomas Alva Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. 1,000 unsuccessful attempts. . . . When a reporter asked him how it felt to fail 1,000 times; Edison replied, “I didn’t fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with…

“You can’t cross the sea merely bystanding and staring at the water.” – Rabindranath Tagore A Crystal Ball What if we had a crystal ball that would reveal all future events to us, one day at a time? Would our lives be more exciting or more boring, happier or unhappier?  If we knew we were going…

“Things are going to get in your way, but whatever you do, never stop showing up.†– Chris Van Etten, U.S. Marine vet Meet Chris When you walk into the Jockey store at the outlets, on the back wall you’ll see a giant photo of a crouched man, in a pair of Jockey underwear, of course,…