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Thoughts & Issues IN THIS ISSUE: APRIL 23
Photo of the Week April 23 - Georgemas or Saint George Feast Day named for fictitious patron saint of England, and hero of the George the Dragon Slayer legend. The story says that his faith helped him slay a vicious dragon that demanded daily sacrifice after the king's daughter became the intended victim. A celebration for knights, armorers, archers, and cavalryman. For centuries it was believed that the most foolproof method for a woman to conceive a bishop was to engage in sex atop her partner - a technique known as "riding St. George." Forgotten English * Yoruba/Santeria feast of Ogun, Orisha of strength, endurance, and perseverance. Yorubas/Santeros celebrate with drumming, ecstatic dancing, and possession trance. * Turn off your TV week - adbusters.org/campaigns/tvturnoff/toolbox/uncommercial.html * Launch date of Soviet mission in which cosmonauts docked with Salyut 1 orbital space station. The crew did not enter the space station. * The first movie was shown at Koster and Bials Music Hall at New York City (1896). Up until this time, people saw films individually by looking into a Kinetoscope, a box-like "peep show". This was the first time in the US that an audience sat in a theater and watched a movie together. * The Boston Latin School opened and is America's oldest public school (1635). * Physicists at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory found evidence for the existence of the subatomic particle called the top quark, the last undiscovered quark of the six predicted to exist by current scientific theory (1994), The discovery provides strong support for the quark theory of the structure of matter. Quarks are subatomic particles that make up protons and neutrons found in the nuclei of atoms. * Birthdays: William Shakespeare's birth and death, Lee Majors, Warren Edward Spahn, Max Planck, Granville T Woods, David Birney, Andrew Jones, Narada Michael Walden. If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution. First you cannot achieve them without suffering, and second, insofar as you do achieve them, you are likely to be called on to serve in ways more painful to you, or at least demanding of you, than you can now imagine. The Road Less Traveled The fatefulness of a relationship may appear not only as extraordinary Synchronicity's, but also as an element in the most ordinary events where it isn't appropriate to take full credit for what has happened. Soul Mates Touch my face more. - Nikki, 28 Best of 1001 Sex Secrets Every Man & Woman Should Know In you think your child is ready to manage a pet, start with a goldfish. With a low-maintenance pet, you can check out your child's initiative to care for it first, before asking the child to take on the bigger responsibilities that are required in owning a dog or cat. Dr. Buff's 365 Day Parenting Calendar Toddler Munchies. Kids love pasta! Rigatoni is one of the most fun shapes to eat because it's easy to pick up. Try topping pasta with canned fruit and syrup for a slightly sweet but healthy dish. Refrigerate extra pasta for another easy-to-get snack: Serve pasta with canned peach slices in syrup and/or 1/4 cup frozen or fresh blueberries. Add a pinch of group cinnamon for an extra kick. Family Feelings Psychologically, something has to die before a new self can be born. We must come through something of a mourning phase to emerge and say, "Okay, now I have a new life; there's a new part of me that is allowed to grow." New Passages By asking for the impossible we attain the best possible. - Armenian Proverb. Achieve Your Dreams How do you know you can't make a rocket out of tin foil boxes and cardboard unless you try? Really Important Stuff My Kids Have Taught Me Since lessons are repeated until learned, and since you cannot learn lessons until you become aware of them, it makes sense that you will need to cultivate awareness if you are to ever progress from where you are right now on your path. Ask yourself what patterns you are repeating; you might be surprised to see how evident they were all along. If Life is a Game, These are the Rules Things to Be Happy About: Baseball-stadium grass. A crock of wieners and beans. A clear conscience. 14,000 Things to Be Happy About Maintaining a simple life requires a certain amount of vigilance. There are constant messages from the media, our families, our friends and the Joneses urging us to buy this new gadget or try that new toy or, in one way or another, get back on the fast track. Most of these messages seems irresistible. But the more you resist, the simpler your life will be. Simplify Your Life Hope can help you hold on when you feel like giving up. If you've lost hope, resurrect it! Stress Busters It's when you try to spring down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds and you think it is too. But you go after it anyway and you get to it. Maybe you don't make a great cross with it to win the game, but you pushed yourself beyond what you thought you could. That's what it will take to win the gold. - Mia Hamm. Win the Day! El brazo (BRAHsoh) Arm. No date mi braco a torrcer en este asunto. I am not going to give in on this one. (Lit. I will not let my arm be twisted on this matter.) Living Language Edith, stifle! - Archie Bunker Every day we are bombarded by renegade channels assaulting our own personal networks. We're distracted by traffic, the neighbors, our girlfriends, the neighbors' girlfriends. And everybody wants to discuss something just when your favorite shows are coming on. Your wife wants to talk about your relationship, your boss wants to discuss the ten grand missing from the Anderson account. Why can't they wit until a more convenient time, like the next Ice Age, for example? We even have difficulty sleeping because we're constantly interrupted by clients calling during business hours. We have to tune out the complaints, the ultimatums, and the threats of violence or legal action and tune in to ourselves. After all, we've got the best fall lineup going. Quiet time lets me star in my own life. Meditations for Men Who Do Next to Nothing: and would like to do even less Hey Man: Did you make a difference yesterday? Let us know at Contact Us Read Susan Jeffer's book, Feel the Fear...and Beyond. What Every Man Needs to Know Want to make a difference but you don't know where to start? ![]() Opposites as Equals: Standard differences between
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Westside Psychology, 2009, ISBN: 978-0-9634126-6-9
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