https://www.leilamorrison.com/musings daily 0.75 2023-10-19 https://www.leilamorrison.com/musings/the-skin-of-our-teeth monthly 0.5 2021-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6164a6b633470a3919fd4cd4/1634697766153-HPX389TEL8Z59O7B5C8I/Describe-a-time-you-made-a-promise-to-someone-image.jpg Musings - The Skin Of Our Teeth “I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise." Thornton Wilder, 1943, The Skin of Our Teeth https://www.leilamorrison.com/musings/touch monthly 0.5 2023-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6164a6b633470a3919fd4cd4/1634690263017-K0BLDYW9LVHK8ERYDQHK/Screen+Shot+2021-10-19+at+8.31.54+PM.png Musings - Touch Without thinking, I said, "You can hold my hand, if you need to." "Oh, OK," she said, without much conviction. The train was still idling at the station, and I resumed reading, but I couldn't fully concentrate on the page. Without wanting to, I realized that what I had just offered was, by New York City standards, a bit out of the ordinary, and, more to the point, I traced the source of my gesture to time I spent in Africa, where touch is part of ordinary discourse between people, even between strangers. Americans, like many Europeans, fear extended contact with a stranger. But the African countries I've been to don't have this kind of prejudice against touch. (This is also true of the Middle East, from what I've seen of it.) As the train accelerated out of the platform, I waited to see if she would take me up on the offer. She braved the physics of it at first. But as we picked up speed, the train began its steady mechanical sway; and, at the first jolt, she grabbed my hand immediately. I smiled at her to let her know that it was OK, and that, in case she was worried about it, I wasn't going to try to steal her wallet. "Thanks," she said meekly. When the train's tumble smoothed out, she let go, but at the next jolt, her instinct for self-preservation overcame her shyness: she grabbed my hand even more forcefully. I responded by doing the same. I held on to her forearm with equal strength, to let her know that it's OK, that I really didn't mind, and to make this a shared effort, rather than a one sided rescue operation. And so we remained, two strangers holding on to each other and breaking New York City subway decorum, as the train sped under the East River. Paul Szynol https://www.leilamorrison.com/musings/revelation monthly 0.5 2021-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6164a6b633470a3919fd4cd4/1634690662049-N5TC5XVBM77IBDSB78JR/Screen+Shot+2021-10-19+at+8.22.31+PM.png Musings - Revelation We make ourselves a place apart Behind light words that tease and flout, But oh, the agitated heart Till someone find us really out. ’Tis pity if the case require (Or so we say) that in the end We speak the literal to inspire The understanding of a friend. But so with all, from babes that play At hide-and-seek to God afar, So all who hide too well away Must speak and tell us where they are. Robert Frost, 1915, Revelation https://www.leilamorrison.com/home daily 1.0 2025-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6164a6b633470a3919fd4cd4/1633988043532-I23TADCC30MTWI3L8GBX/subway.jpeg Home - Make it stand out Simon Shim (2018) https://www.leilamorrison.com/service daily 0.75 2025-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6164a6b633470a3919fd4cd4/1634692468126-DZX2WT47KUIJ9E6J9USZ/Screen+Shot+2021-10-19+at+9.13.48+PM.png Service - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.leilamorrison.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6164a6b633470a3919fd4cd4/9008f33b-a247-455c-b0cf-91e371f69774/Screen+Shot+2021-11-02+at+12.20.39+AM.png Contact - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.leilamorrison.com/philosophy daily 0.75 2025-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6164a6b633470a3919fd4cd4/1634691743333-CWJ9ML6EN17IA3ER74VB/Screen+Shot+2021-10-19+at+9.01.55+PM.png Philosophy - Make it stand out Paulo Zerbato, 2011, The Birth of The Symbolic Human Being. https://www.leilamorrison.com/library daily 0.75 2024-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6164a6b633470a3919fd4cd4/e01a0ec3-062a-4836-9f5f-97d618fbb530/Screen+Shot+2021-11-02+at+2.32.57+AM.png Library - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.