Morning Briefings

I need a sign to let me know you’re here, all of these lines are being crossed over the atmosphere. I want a reason for the way things have to be. I need a hand to help build up some kind of hope inside of me.

– Calling All Angels
Train

Keeping Faith, Ochoa Takes Magical Tour: ‘The best part about working for Lorena [top ranked female golfer in the world] is not the money, the memories, winning the amazing events,’ caddie Dave Brooker said. ‘It’s that being around her makes me want to be a better person.’

– Karen Crouse
NewYorkTimes.com

For twenty centuries she has been called blessed by people in all walks of life: intellectuals, illiterates, kings, warriors, tradesmen, men and women, infants and elderly: Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women.

– Francis Fernandez
In Conversation with God

Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested. It is said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, in the language of the desert, ‘one dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.’

– Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist

When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, ‘Free at last! free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!’

– Martin Luther King, Jr.
I Have a Dream…(speech)

Memorial Day is gone and Labor Day beckons. Sometime in between, many of us are likely to find ourselves at an oft-dreaded workplace event: the company picnic. That determinedly casual atmosphere is the largest snake hiding under the office picnic table. The goal is to be noticed in a positive light. You don’t want to be the subject of gossip at the water cooler Monday morning.

– JoAnn Greco
Yahoo! HotJobs, July 1, 2007