Letting Hope move in

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. Barbara Kingsolver

Hope. The word holds promise, anticipation, expectations, confidence. What do you Hope for? Have you figured it out? Life lacks sparkle when we have no Hope. We all Hope. It's impossible for us not too but sometimes the Hope scares us so we try to deny we have any. But it's there. Skating around the edges of your heart and breathing life that you need into your soul. It's the denial of its existence that causes us to live outside of it. Don't do that. Allow it to infuse you, allow it to whisper to you. Let it live in you and you in it. Too often we look at Hope as something for others, unattainable, inaccessible so we stay far away from it. It's like the house in our own neighborhood that we drive by everyday and admire but think we can't or don't deserve to live in it. Not true. We can live in Hope, we should live in Hope. We should let it move into us and give our lives the sparkle they need.

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Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

A dime a dozen

"It's said that in the year 1796, the first U.S. dimes were produced for circulation. Hence, it would make sense for this phrase to originate sometime after." Read more here . Today the phrase carries the meaning that something is cheap or without value if it can be lumped in with other similar or exactly-like things. It's more of an insult than anything.

Life according to van Gogh...sort of

There are two ways of thinking about painting, how not to do it and how to do it; how to do it -- with much drawing and little color; how not to do it -- with much color and little drawing. Vincent van Gogh in a l etter to Theo van Gogh, April 1882 Life is a little bit like today's quote from van Gogh. Some of us live life focusing on the drawing - the details - and have very little color. Others of us go for the color and forsake, to a degree, the drawing - the details. Unlike painting, according to van Gogh, one is not wrong over the other but somewhere in between the two would be the best I would think. If you look at some of van Gogh's paintings I feel like you can see where he might have struggled between the "how to do it" and the " how not to do it" (as he admittedly loved color so much but knew he had to focus more on the drawing) and that seems to be reflected in his life as well. In the end he wasn't able to find the ...

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