User Profile

I'm a parent, composer, jazz pianist, author and a tech guru and teacher at a small university. Beyond that, you can probably deduce more about me from my interests.

My name, FluffTheBunny, is not a reference to the pejorative term used by Pagans; it is the title of a children's book I wrote 20 years ago, about a purple bunny that grew up in a world of pink and blue.

I'm an ENFJ.

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This is me, playing the piano.

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Some Quotes

"If you want to be important—wonderful. If you want to be recognized—wonderful. If you want to be great—wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness...It means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. And you can be that servant." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"Success is the ability to move from one failure to the next with enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

"I want to be like you when I grow up." - Anonymous person, who is older than me

“Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.” - Mohandas Gandhi

"Self care is never a selfish act – it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others. Any time we can listen to true self and give it the care it requires, we do it not only for ourselves, but for the many others whose lives we touch." - Parker Palmer

"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle." - James Russell Lowell

"Life is a place of service. Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness." - Leo Tolstoy

"The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three." - U.S. Grant

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." - Albert Einstein

"You're fierce, girl...” - Meghan Chavalier

"Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time." - Marian Wright Edelman

“Know your song well before you start singing.” - Bob Dylan

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." - Mohandas Gandhi

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” - Anais Nin

“How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?” - Vincent Van Gogh

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” - Jimi Hendrix

“Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day.” - William Arthur Ward

“One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.” - Simone de Beauvoir

"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart; live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." ~ Dale Carnegie

“It's never too late to be who you might have been.” - George Eliot

“I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.” - Carol Gilligan

“When we can't dream any longer we die” - Emma Goldman

“It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.” - Margery Williams

“If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.” - Charlie Parker

“Always remember: Less is less. More is more. More is better and twice as much is good too. Not enough is bad and too much is never enough except when it's just about right.” - The Tic

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