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Over time, I discovered that learning new things doesn't always liberate you. Instead it makes you wonder if your pants are on backward or if the trees are holding the sky up - it makes you question a...

Dee Williams

Over time, I discovered that learning new things doesn't always liberate you. Instead it makes you wonder if your pants are on backward or if the trees are holding the sky up - it makes you question a...

Tags: assumptions, conventions, learning, the big tiny

Sometimes the word 'gratitude' feels too thin to explain things.

Dee Williams

Sometimes the word 'gratitude' feels too thin to explain things.

Tags: gratitude, the big tiny

About Author
Dee Williams (May 1884 – December 23, 1911) was an American Negro league outfielder between 1909 and 1911.
A native of Topeka, Kansas, Williams played for the Buxton Wonders and the Kansas City Giants in 1909, and continued to play for Kansas City through 1911, playing for the Kansas City Royal Giants in 1910, returning to the Kansas City Giants for the 1911 season. He died in Kansas City, Kansas in 1911 at age 27.

I've never been good with asking for help; it seems risky, but at some point when things are really dicey, your stubbornness gives way to a certain form of humility that, after you get over yourself,...

Dee Williams

I've never been good with asking for help; it seems risky, but at some point when things are really dicey, your stubbornness gives way to a certain form of humility that, after you get over yourself,...

Tags: asking for help, humility, liberating, stubbornness, the big tiny, universe

Being an entrepreneur is a mental job...It takes patients! YOU are doing more motivation to yourself than anyone on this planet.

Dee Williams

Being an entrepreneur is a mental job...It takes patients! YOU are doing more motivation to yourself than anyone on this planet.

Tags: business, dee williams, entrepreneur, inspirational, motivational, staffingpreneur

The space reminded me of the small hay-bale clubhouses and scrap-wood tree forts that my brothers and I had made as kids - high up spaces where you could see things differently, where you could get yo...

Dee Williams

The space reminded me of the small hay-bale clubhouses and scrap-wood tree forts that my brothers and I had made as kids - high up spaces where you could see things differently, where you could get yo...

Tags: bearings, perspective, the big tiny

Perhaps the current state of my health should have raised a bright red caution flag, but instead it fired me up. I wanted to do what I wanted. I didn't care if hefting plywood and climbing ladders wer...

Dee Williams

Perhaps the current state of my health should have raised a bright red caution flag, but instead it fired me up. I wanted to do what I wanted. I didn't care if hefting plywood and climbing ladders wer...

Tags: fun, health, the big tiny

We were taught not to offer or invite aid, because, like it or not, helping is a messy, confused proposition; sometimes you get it right and sometimes you get it wrong, and sometimes you have no choic...

Dee Williams

We were taught not to offer or invite aid, because, like it or not, helping is a messy, confused proposition; sometimes you get it right and sometimes you get it wrong, and sometimes you have no choic...

Tags: aid, kindness, the big tiny

If more people understood how nice it is to have a sense of home that extends past our locked doors, past our neighbors' padlocks, to the local food co-op and library, the sidewalks busted up by old t...

Dee Williams

If more people understood how nice it is to have a sense of home that extends past our locked doors, past our neighbors' padlocks, to the local food co-op and library, the sidewalks busted up by old t...

Tags: alone, home, moments, neighbors, notice, opportunity, relax, the big tiny, timeless

Whose idea was it that we should all get jobs, work faster, work better, race from place to place with our brains stewing on tweets, blogs, and sound bites, on must-see movies, must-do experiences, mu...

Dee Williams

Whose idea was it that we should all get jobs, work faster, work better, race from place to place with our brains stewing on tweets, blogs, and sound bites, on must-see movies, must-do experiences, mu...

Tags: connection, heart, life, rushing, the big tiny

That obstinate sense of independence was the biggest challenge I face in building my little house (that, and not always knowing what I was doing). I was stubborn in the way I hated to ask for help. So...

Dee Williams

That obstinate sense of independence was the biggest challenge I face in building my little house (that, and not always knowing what I was doing). I was stubborn in the way I hated to ask for help. So...

Tags: asking for help, challenge, independence, stubborn, the big tiny

Fear and logic belong together.

Dee Williams

Fear and logic belong together.

Tags: fear, logic, the big tiny

Letting go of "stuff" allowed the world to collapse behind me as I moved, so I became nothing more or less than who I simply was: Me.

Dee Williams

Letting go of "stuff" allowed the world to collapse behind me as I moved, so I became nothing more or less than who I simply was: Me.

Tags: being yourself, letting go, materialism, stuff, the big tiny

The library made me feel safe, as if every question had an answer and there was nothing to be afraid of, as long as I could sort through another volume.

Dee Williams

The library made me feel safe, as if every question had an answer and there was nothing to be afraid of, as long as I could sort through another volume.

Tags: answers, books, fear, library, questions, safety, the big tiny, volumes

He had kidded with us that if we didn't let go at the proper moment, he would slap our hands with a stick, and we had all laughed because who would be silly enough to hang on when they should let go?

Dee Williams

he had kidded with us that if we didn't let go at the proper moment, he would slap our hands with a stick, and we had all laughed because who would be silly enough to hang on when they should let go?

Tags: letting go, the big tiny

The Internet is dumb. The Internet, with all its access to brain research, anthropology journals, social studies networks, and biographies and autobiographies, can't begin to map the complexity of our...

Dee Williams

The Internet is dumb. The Internet, with all its access to brain research, anthropology journals, social studies networks, and biographies and autobiographies, can't begin to map the complexity of our...

Tags: affect others, complexity, internet, the big tiny

I felt like a champion because I was figuring shit out. I was a doer and a getter-doner, and it was okay to be identified by the neighbors as the little lady who had a dump truck of manure delivered,...

Dee Williams

I felt like a champion because I was figuring shit out. I was a doer and a getter-doner, and it was okay to be identified by the neighbors as the little lady who had a dump truck of manure delivered,...

Tags: action, champion, doer, the big tiny

Over time, I realized I wasn't necessarily seeing people or things at their best or worst; instead, I was simply seeing things as they were.There didn't seem to be a moral high road to take in most si...

Dee Williams

Over time, I realized I wasn't necessarily seeing people or things at their best or worst; instead, I was simply seeing things as they were.There didn't seem to be a moral high road to take in most si...

Tags: morality, the big tiny, the right thing

For me, the idea of living small has always involved being curious - taking a look at how my day-to-day is connected to the larger world around me, and to the delicate universe that sits between my ea...

Dee Williams

For me, the idea of living small has always involved being curious - taking a look at how my day-to-day is connected to the larger world around me, and to the delicate universe that sits between my ea...

Tags: connection, curiosity, the big tiny

Being an entrepreneur is a mental job...It takes patience! YOU are doing more motivation to yourself than anyone on this planet.

Dee Williams

Being an entrepreneur is a mental job...It takes patience! YOU are doing more motivation to yourself than anyone on this planet.

Tags: dee williams, entrepreneurship, inspirational, motivational

The naysayer has a place in your life, but if that is someone that you are considering to be your friend, do they truly add value in your life?

Dee Williams

The naysayer has a place in your life, but if that is someone that you are considering to be your friend, do they truly add value in your life?

Tags: dee williams, entrepreneurship, friendship, inspirational, motivational, recruiter