Category Archives: Potential

Can You Guess What the Three Letter Word Is?

Posted on February 14, 2016 by russtowne

I believe this clip will be eye-opening for many… Three letter word… With Love, Russ

Posted in LIfe Lessons, Potential, Regret | Tagged lessons, Life, mistakes, potential, regret | 9 Comments

Waxing Poetic

Posted on February 3, 2016 by russtowne

I’ve been on a poetic roll these last few days. If you’d like to experience my poetry, please check out my blog devoted to it at http://agratefulmanspoetry.com. A Grateful Man’s Poetry The titles of some of my recent creations include: “A … Continue reading →

Posted in Adversity, Loneliness, Loss, Love, Pain & Grief, Poetry, Poetry I Wrote, Potential | Tagged loss, Love, pain, poem, poetry | 2 Comments

Where You Start

Posted on October 16, 2013 by russtowne

“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” ~Nido Qubein Source: (I don’t recall where I saw it.) — “Love flows best when it flows freely.” “May every wound bring wisdom.” –Kate Nowack … Continue reading →

Posted in Love, Potential, Quotes I Love, Success | Tagged Love, potential, quotes, Success | 17 Comments

The Threshold of Your Heart

Posted on July 26, 2013 by russtowne

Which way? To me that is simple (but not always easy): I follow where my heart leads. “The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Challenges, Choices, LIfe Lessons, Observations, Photos That Touched Me, Potential, Project Updates for Children's Stories/Poems I Wrote, Quotes I Love, Quotos | Tagged chllenges, choices, decisions, heart, Karen Robiscoe, Khalil Gibran, mind, Saamuel Greenberg | 15 Comments

The Treasure

Posted on January 16, 2013 by russtowne

There are pieces of my spirit In all that I create Offers of connectedness I hope will resonate May you find that what I write Is loving, kind, and true And invites a deeper delving Into the treasure that is … Continue reading →

Posted in Goodness, Love, Poetry I Wrote, Potential | Tagged bridges, brothers, goodness, greatness, kind, Love, loving, pieces, sisters, spirit, true, write | 18 Comments

I LOVE This–And The Potential is HUGE

Posted on November 2, 2012 by russtowne

Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction http://dvice.com/archives/2012/10/ethiopian-kids.php What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they’ll start teaching themselves … Continue reading →

Posted in Breakthroughs, Children, Creativity, Education, Ingenuity, Inspiring, Making the World a Better Place, Potential, Stories That Touched Me | Tagged children, computer, computers, create, creativity, education, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, experi ment, kids, learning, MIT, MIT Technology, MIT Technology Review's EmTech conference, Motorola, Nicholas Negroponte, OLCPs, tablet, tablets, Zoom | 3 Comments

Astounding Ourselves

Posted on August 19, 2012 by russtowne

“If we all did all the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.”–Thomas Edison I lived much of my life in great fear. Fear of rejection. Fear of making a fool of myself. Fear of being … Continue reading →

Posted in Fear, Gratitude, Potential, Quotes I Love | Tagged astound, Astounding, capable, fear, gratitude, readers, relief, Thomas Edison, world | 21 Comments

The Mighty Ocean in the Drop

Posted on August 5, 2012 by russtowne

You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop. – Rumi

Posted in Attittude, Inspiring, Observations, Potential, Quotes I Love | Tagged drop, mighty ocean, Rumi, you | 6 Comments

Posted on July 23, 2012 by russtowne

So much misery comes from settling for less than we can be in life and doing less than we can do. Thank you for the reminder, Mojo! And thank you pathwriter for your post from which MoJo reblogged it. (I … Continue reading →