https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq Made with no regrets, whatsoever en-us 2017-12-18 13:13:54 UTC 2025-10-26 00:35:07 UTC hello@padlet.com aprendergast2 https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/216930247 Please write one quote from your weekly reading that resonated with you. Be prepared to discuss. :) ]]> 2017-12-18 13:15:56 UTC https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/216930247 https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217022295 “I grew up hearing over and over, to the point of tedium, that "hard work" was the secret of success: "Work hard and you'll get ahead" or "It's hard work that got us where we are." No one ever said that you could work hard - harder even than you ever thought possible - and still find yourself sinking ever deeper into poverty and debt.”]]> 2017-12-18 17:02:04 UTC https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217022295 https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217022345 "The instruments arrive. First one violin-- which the owner has enclosed in a Sears chain-saw box-- then another then another, and then comes the shipment from Mr. Rich of the Pearl River Piano Group." ]]> 2017-12-18 17:02:11 UTC https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217022345 https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217022419 Why does anybody put up with this when there are so many other jobs available?]]> 2017-12-18 17:02:21 UTC https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217022419 https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217022420 “ How does anyone live on the wages available to the unskilled?”]]> 2017-12-18 17:02:21 UTC https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217022420 https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217022441 "Any dictatorship takes a psychological toll on its subjects. If you are treated as an untrustworthy person, you may begin to feel less trustworthy yourself."]]> 2017-12-18 17:02:25 UTC https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217022441 https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217022529 "But as days go by, my old life is beginning to look exceedingly strange." ]]> 2017-12-18 17:02:36 UTC https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217022529 https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217022534 "What you don''t necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life."]]> 2017-12-18 17:02:37 UTC https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217022534 https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217022585 "He lives in two distant constellations, this man who fends off rats on Skid Row and holds forth at Disney Hall, mingling easily with members of the orchestra." (pg. 118)]]> 2017-12-18 17:02:43 UTC https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217022585 https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217022694 "You can either put up a shield so the unhappiness doesn't touch you, or you can be open to it and absorb it yourself." (48) ]]> 2017-12-18 17:02:59 UTC https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217022694 https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217022774 "Nathaniel's bow is a fluid and obedient slave, his fingers dancing ballet on the fresh-varnished neck, and the music cuts him off from noise, worry, fear, illness." ]]> 2017-12-18 17:03:12 UTC https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217022774 https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217022799 "Every time the phone rings at night, my stomach does a flip. I'm always sure its the police, calling to say Nathaniel is hanging on by a thread after a mugging, and nice going, Mr. Columnist. Along with giving him two brand new instruments, why didn't I paint a bulls-eye on his back?"]]> 2017-12-18 17:03:16 UTC https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217022799 https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217023042 "A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with our weaknesses." ]]> 2017-12-18 17:03:51 UTC https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217023042 https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217023173 “One of the greatest joys of my job is the chance to hold the feet of public officials to the fire”

]]> 2017-12-18 17:04:16 UTC https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217023173 https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217023810 "A lot of what we experience as strengths comes from knowing what to do with weakness".]]> 2017-12-18 17:05:56 UTC https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217023810 https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217023849 “We can hardly pride ourselves on being the world’s preeminent democracy, after all, if the large numbers of citizens spend half their waking hours in what amounts, in plain terms, to a dictatorship.”]]> 2017-12-18 17:06:02 UTC https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217023849 https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217023991 "but as days go by, my old life is beginning to look exceedingly strange"]]> 2017-12-18 17:06:22 UTC https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217023991 https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217024426 “A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.” ]]> 2017-12-18 17:07:27 UTC https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217024426 https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217029919 2017-12-18 17:21:55 UTC https://padlet.com/aprendergast2/guw30rexkcq/wish/217029919