Daily
Thoughts & Issues IN THIS ISSUE: OCTOBER
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Photo of the Week October 29 - Oldest Man in Space. Former astronaut and senator John Glenn became the oldest man in space when he traveled on the space shuttle Discovery at the age of 77 (1998) Glenn had been the first American to orbit Earth. * Independence Day in Turkey. * Black Tuesday - A record 16,410,030 shares are traded on the stock market and dumped for whatever they will bring. (1929) This was the beginning of the Great Depression lasting 10 years in North America, Europe and other industrialized countries. In 1932 one out of four US workers was unemployed. * Birthdays: Richard Dreyfuss, James Boswell, Randy Jackson (Steven Randall Jackson), Bill Mauldin. The collective unconscious is God; the conscious is man as individual; and the personal unconscious is the interface between them. Being g this interface, it is inevitable that the personal unconscious should be a place of some turmoil, the scene of some struggle between God's will and the will of the individual. The Road Less Traveled When our sexual thoughts excite us toward new liaisons and new experiences, we may consider honoring these thoughts not by establishing new interpersonal relationships, but by being in life more sexually. Soul Mates I love it when the hair on his chest brushes across my nipples. - Michelle, 29 Best of 1001 Sex Secrets Every Man & Woman Should Know Just because a movie is rated PG doesn't mean your child is ready to see it. Research before you go. Ask yourself what your child might learn from this movie. Finally, if you say no, stick with it. Dr. Buff's 365 Day Parenting Calendar Experts in gerontology make a clear distinction between passive aging and successful aging. To engage in successful aging is actually a career choice. Your job is to revive your life energy to make the next passage. New Passages Things to Be Happy About: Barcode readers. Exhilarating gusts of wind. Shaker meeting halls. 14,000 Things to Be Happy About Don't say "The last one there is a rotten egg" unless you're absolutely sure there's a slow kid behind you. Really Important Stuff My Kids Have Taught Me Can you name the first openly gay group to perform at Carnegie Hall? (Answer below.) Gay & Lesbian Calendar We know that stress is a major cause of illness in our culture. Make whatever changes are necessary to eliminate the tensions in your life. The classic, proven stress releaser is meditation. Simplifying your life, spending time in solitude, and taking your own private retreats are invaluable stress reducers, too. Simplify Your Life To save your family from future stress, make out a will and write down all pertinent financial and insurance information. Either give a copy to your next of kin or tell them where they can find it in the event of your death. Stress Busters We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves. - Orsen Swett Marden To Do Today El sotano (SOHtahnoh) Basement. Se oyen ruidos del sotano. You can hear noises coming from the basement. Living Language Answer: The New York City Gay Men's Chorus. Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time. - Robert Gruidin. The clock: Its face is often much angrier, much less forgiving than the faces of our superiors, our bosses, our supervisors. Why are we tyrannized by the clock? Because men who do too much are trapped by time. We're slaves to the big and little hands. We work through lunch and are proud of it. We come home late from work too tired, too drained to enjoy our children or our wives or our partners. And we're proud of that, too. Time is an enemy. And focusing on the fact that we all would like a thirty-six hour day will only make us want a forty-two hour day. We'll fill up the calendar, no matter how much time we're given. Meditations For Men Who Do Too Much Hey Man: Did you make a difference yesterday? Let
us know at Contact
Us. Today I'm going to attempt to go through the
day without wearing my watch and without looking at the
clock. If this little exercise makes me less aware of the
time, and helps me to be more composed and less frantic, I
may only wear my watch when it's absolutely necessary!
Meditations
For Men Who Do Too Much
Want to make a difference but you don't know
where
to start? Sh*t My Dad Says, Justin Halpern. After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, the author found himself living at home with his seventy-three-year-old dad who is like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair." He has never minced words and when the author moved back home, he began to record all of the ridiculous things his dad said to him. More than a million people how follow his philosophical musings on Twitter, and in this book, his son weaves a brilliantly funny, touching coming-of-age memoir around the beset of his quotes. An all-American story that unfolds on the Little League field, in Dennny's, during excruciating family road trips, and, most frequently, in the authors kitchen over bowls of Grape-Nuts. This book is a chaotic, hilarious, true portrait of a father-son relationship from a major new comic voice. www.ShitMyDadSays.com or www.Twitter.com.ShitMyDadSays. HarperCollins, 2010 ISBN 978-0-06-199270-4
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October is Adopt-a-Shelter Dog; Alternate History; Auto Battery Safety; Campaign for Healthier Babies; Celiac Sprue Awareness; Child Health; Computer Learning; Diversity Awareness; Dryer Vent Safety Awareness; Energy Management is a Family Affair-Improve Your Home; Family History; Family Sexuality Education, Fantasy; Gay and Lesbian History; Health Literacy; International Fired Up; Listen to Your Inner Critic; Lupus Awareness; National AIDS Awareness; National Animal Safety and Protection; *National Breast Cancer Awareness; National Car Care; National Crime Prevention; National Depression Education and Awareness; *National Disability Employment Awareness; *National Domestic Violence Awareness; National Family Health, National Family Sexuality Education; National "Gain the Inside Advantage"; National Home Inspection; National Orthodontic Health; National Pharmacy; National Physical Therapy; National Pizza; National Popcorn Poppin'; National Roller Skating; National Skin Care Awareness; National Spinal Health; National Toilet Tank Repair; Pediatric Cancer Awareness; Rett Syndrome Awareness; Sarcastics Awareness; Substance Abuse Prevention; Talk About Prescriptions; Unmasking Halloween Dangers; Vegetarian Awareness Month. 9/15-10/15: Hispanic Heritage Month. 10/1-7: Mental Illness Awareness; *Minority Enterprise Development; National Health Care Food Oct 8-14: *Fire Prevention; Home Based Business; National Adult Immunization Awareness; *National School Lunch, National Walk to School Week. 10/9-13: Pet Peeve, Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Week. 10/10-16: Wildlife Week. 10/14-20: Ally, Pharmacy Week. 10/15-21: Getting the World to Beat a Path to Your Door; *National Character Counts; Teen Read Week. 10/16-22: National Health Education Week. 10/22-28: National Massage Therapy Awareness, National Save Yur Back Week. 10/23-31: Red Ribbon 10/25-31: Peace, Friendship & Goodwill Week. 10/1: World Vegetarian Day. 10/2: World Habitat Day, 10/3: Techies Day. 10/4: Toot Your Flute Day. 10/8 Global Learn Day; National Children's Day. 10/9: Indigenous Persons Day; *Leif Erikson Day, Yom Kippur, Canadian Thanksgiving Day. 10/11: Coming Out; Teddy Bear to Work Day; 10/12: Oktoberfest. 10/13: Blame Someone Else; Scream, Train Your Brain Day, Friday the 13th. 10/14: Sukkot. Be Bald and Be Free Day. 10/15: National Grouch; *White Cane Safety Day. 10/16: Dictionary; Boss' Day, Intl. Librarians World Food Day. 10/17: Black Poetry, International Eradication of Poverty Day. 10/18: Canadian Persons; Boost your Brain Day. 10/19: Evaluate Your Life Day 10/21: Sweetest Day. 10/22: Mother-In-Law; National Scientific Literacy Day. 10/23: National Mole Day. 10/24: United Nations Day. Black Thursday. 10/25: Cartoonists Against Crime Day. 10/26: Horseless Carriage; Mule, Intersex Awareness Day 10/27: Frankenstein Friday, Navy Day, Ugly Pickup Contest. 10/28: Make a Difference; Wild Foods Day; Day of Meditation. 10/29: Daylight Savings Times Ends. 10/31: Halloween; National Magic; *National Unicef Day. 11/2 is Election Day. Vote Absentee Ballot. * Means a Presidential Proclamation has been made. Domestic Violence Prevention Month - See Issues. Also, see books on anger, violence-general, violence-domestic, violence-rape, violence-sexual, women's violence, sexual harassment plus Q&A Slide Guide on Gangs and Safe Dating in Merchandise and Alternatives to Violence programs. - resources for male and female perpetrators and male and female victims. Got some information to add, send it to mailto:violence@menstuff.org * Means a Presidential Proclamation has been made. Men are so competitive that we even "out-die" women in all 15 of the major causes of death in the U.S. Most of these deaths are preventable with a positive change in life-style, eating habits, and/or general health care. Let's not strive so hard to hold on to this record. See what you can change now to live a healthier life.
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