{"id":42532,"date":"2022-12-26T07:57:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T20:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=42532"},"modified":"2022-12-26T07:57:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T20:57:12","slug":"a-christmas-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=42532","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Wish"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Elizabeth<\/p>\n

James Grissom: What is your wish?<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Taylor: “For the most part, we live the life we craft with our thoughts and deserve with our actions. There is so much we cannot control, but I believe that we control most of what occurs in the orbit we have to always call ‘our life.’ We need to fill it with kindness and generosity; we need to observe it with curious eyes and constant questions; we need to give it away daily so that we are forced to re-build it all over again, growing stronger and more appreciative of what we have and what we have given to others. My wish is that we all craft a life that others enjoy visiting and enjoy having tour and bump into their lives. That’s my wish. That we all take the extraordinary God-given talents we all have and we use them for good.” (1991)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James Grissom: What is your wish? Elizabeth Taylor: “For the most part, we live the life we craft with our thoughts and deserve with our actions. There is so much we cannot control, but I believe that we control most of what occurs in the orbit we have to always call ‘our life.’ We need … <\/p>\n

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