#463: *QUOTE* SPOTLIGHT

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April 28, 2026

A Backbeat of Community

Happy Tuesday! I've been reading through past Spotlights this week and pausing along the way to reflect on a few excerpts. I'm sharing a small handful of quotes below, along with a link to the CFC website where you can explore the full library of pieces if you wish! 

- Amanda

Full Spotlight Library: http://www.cvcommunityforchange.org/spotlights

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"I’m continuing to grow and learn and having a ton of fun making lots of mistakes. Happiness isn't found in others' approval any more (even though I do like making others happy). It’s in the quiet confidence of knowing myself, living accordingly, and finding joy in the journey. And laughing…..lots of laughing."

- Melissa Norman

"Since everything is to be continued – every relationship, every interaction, every action –  then intentionality is a huge, huge blessing." 

- Rudy Karsan

"A third-generation tapas restaurateur befriends me. We climb the spires of the Sagrada Familia for a dramatic vista of the city. We pick olives and grapes in northern villages.  We ski in the Pyrenees and swim in the Mediterranean. They pull me into their circle zealously, and I shift from witnessing a place to being part of it."

- MJ Kaplan

"What has surprised me about the conditions of flow? That the foundation of flow for me was built-in, seemingly from the beginning. That flow is so like play, and that adding performance pressure can be so fully empowering or debilitating. That flow can occur, or not, as an individual, as a duo, and as a group... That the experience is holistic and authentic: lying at the intersection of things like genuine understanding and creating, feeling and thinking."

- Greg Parsons

"And when I think back on those meetings a few days later, the things I remember most are rarely the agenda items... It’s the stories... Someone who told me about a parent who worked nonstop to keep the family afloat... Or the neighborhood they rode their bike through that opened their heart and mind to people who were different from them... And almost every time I walk away from a conversation like that, I’m reminded how much there is to a person that I would never have known if we had only talked about the reason the meeting was originally scheduled."

- Bill Cummings