The Way I See It #208 (Starbucks)

"I wish couples who desperately take every means to conceive a child would realize that adoption is a wonderful alternative. A child who becomes your child through adoption completes a family. Just as when you commit to your spouse or partner there are no biological ties, yet a family was formed. This child enters a family the same way! It is not blood and flesh that form a family, but the heart."
by Michele Johnson (Starbucks customer from Wamego, Kansas)

Starbucks - The Way I See It #183

Improvisers don't look at change as an obstacle; we look at it as fuel. we know that the next great idea lies just on the other side of the change. We are contantly asking ourselves, "What can I do to incite change?" Well
- John Sweeney
(Speaker, trainer and author of Innovation at the Speed of Laughter.)

The Way I See It #81 (From my FIRST gingerbread latte)

"It is a privilege being a professional baseball player, but an even greater honor to help children and families suffering profound distress. We all have time, talent and/or treasure to share with those in need. Every day is a gift, and it's everyone's responsibility to make the most of that gift - to help others."
-Jamie Moyer (Baseball pitcher, co-founder and president of The Moyer Foundation)

All is NOW well with the world

Gingerbread latte's are officially out at Starbucks ... let freedom ring!!!!

Pure, heavenly indulgence touching that plastic rim to my lips to get my first sip of the season! The smell, the taste, the feel .... awwwww!!!! Okay, I'm sure you're thinking what feel .. it's the same paper cup as any other latte. You're right ... but knowing what's inside that ordinary cup makes it not so ordinary! Knowing that inside there is a gingerbread latte for me, makes that cup feel like a million bucks!!!!!!

Gotta love Starbucks man!!!!

Starbucks - The Way I See It #181

A childs mind isn't a blank slate; it's more of a jungle. Each time a parent helps a toddler read, the child is walked through this jungle from one side to the other. Trip after trip, a seemingly impossible passage becomes a well-worn path.
Children sent to kindergarten skipping merrily along this path to literacy fare far better than those sent to school with machetes.
- Keith Mastrion ("Reading Man" and 1998 National Teach of the Year)

Starbucks - The Way I See It #182

"In my career I've found the 'thinking outside the box' works better if I know what s 'inside the box.' In music (as in life) we need to understand our pertinent history ... and moving on is so much easier once we know where we've been.

Dave Grusin (Award - winning composer and jazz musician)

The Way I See It #83 (from a Starbucks Cup)

LOVE this one!!!

"They told you that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What they failed to tell yo u is that it is best seen with the eyes closed. What you look like isn't important. What is important is who you are inside and the choices you are making in your life."

--Tianna Tozer (1992 Paralympic silver and 1996 bronze medalist, women's wheelchair basketball)

The Way I See It #74 (from Starbucks cup)

"In a time when even our soil and air might not know the truth, the onle solace we can take in decision - making about our inner peace is through honest, organic and sustainable farming. I guarantee that if y ou know the name of the person who picks your carrots and peas, you will feel better and so will your grandchildren."

--Mario Batali (Chef, author and host of Molto Mario and Mario Eats Italy on Food Network)

The Way I See It #78 (From the Starbucks cup)

"In an age when pictures have become more eloquent than words, schools are still programmed to reduce the child's immersive interaction with the isual world to the practical poverty of the alphabet. Visual literact shoulc become a pedagogical priority in order to prepare our chilren to function within the increasingly visual complexity of our environment."

Vik Muniz (Artist and photographer. Bor in Sao Paulo, Brazil, he now resides in New York City)