Bev Hagerdorn

“Hope is a place to start. It doesn’t fix everything. It doesn’t solve everything. It just gives us a place to start. That’s what hope is.”

Robin – homeless youth

“Hope is a reason to grow old, a reason to believe that everything will be okay, that my life can be better everyday. Hope gives me the ability to be better & relax.”

Patrick – wise & wonderful

“The hunger for Love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.” – Mother Teresa

What if…everything that happened in your life was not someone else’s fault?

What if…everything that happened in your life was not your fault?

Then we would be left with…

what is…

what is not…

and what we’re going to do about it.

What if…the shoes at the Dock of the Bay were yours? And they were filled with all that you, personally, needed? And they fit…because they’re yours?

Most importantly, what if…………………………………….no one was coming to save you?

This is a theory of Total Self-Responsibility that works for me & that I teach to others by way of example, in my own family & in my work.  There is tremendous power in being able to STAND UP!, on our own two feet & take on the messiness of being human & the wonders of this world.

It’s a theory. A way of thinking.