Daily Thoughts & Issues

IN THIS ISSUE:

JULY 25

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Achieve Your Dreams

July 25 - Two weeks after the Allied attack on Sicily began, the Fascist Grand Council met for the first time since December of 1939 and took a confidence vote resulting in Mussolini's being removed from office and placed under arrest. (1943). * Allies break out of Normandy beachhead. Having made a spectacularly successful landing on D-Day, Allied forces then secured and extended their position by landing more than a million men and 60,000 tons of supplies. However, they were pinned down and a breakout was needed if France was to be retaken. Sustained air bombardment (carpet bombing) created gaps in the German lines and on this date (1944) Allied forces penetrated the lines and outflanked and bypassed the German units. The German forces were incredulous at the speed with which the Allies shook loose from them and advanced over the French countryside. * The Andrea Doria, an Italian luxury liner collided with the Stockholm, a Swedish liner. It began sinking and ships in the area came to the rescue. 1,634 people were rescued including the captain and the crew. * Louis Bleriot, after asking from the cockpit, "Where is England?" took off from Les Basraques France and landed on English soil where he was greeted first by English police and customs officers (1909). This was the world's first international overseas airplane flight, accomplished in a 28-hp monoplane with a wingspan of 23'. * St. Genesiu's Day - Genesius is a patron of actors and comedians. * Birth day of Louise Joy Brown (1978) of Oldham, England, the first documented birth of a baby (test tube baby) conceived outside the body of a woman. * Other Birthdays: Jack Gilford, Eric Hoffer, Douglas Bean Brabek, Matt LaBlanc, Walter Jerry (Sweetness) Payton, Brad Renfro, Nathaniel (Nate) Thurmond.

DAILY THOUGHTS

To nourish the spirit the body must also be nourished. We need food and shelter. No matter how dedicated we are to spiritual development, we also need rest and relaxation, exercise and distraction. Saints must sleep and even prophets must play. Thus hobbies may be a means through which we love ourselves. The Road Less Traveled

The best was when he brushed my hair after we were finished - Anita, 24. Best of 1001 Sex Secrets Every Man & Woman Should Know

Roger Gorski and Laura Allen, neuroanatomists at UCLA, have proved beyond doubt that hormones can change the very structure of our brains. In fact, throughout life our behavior is constantly modulated by the effect of hormones on our brains. Changes in hormones and brain chemistry in middle life return the two sexes closer to the neutrality they had as children. New Passages

One new child in a family adds 60 percent more cleaning, 50 percent more laundry and 40 percent more cooking. It pays to teach children early how to help out around the house. Dr. Buff's 365 Day Parenting Calendar

Establishing intimacy is not a matter of finding new information or borrowing new words for your condition or your personality, nor it is the application of these words and ideas to your experience. The idea of soul embraces much that is unknown. Attuned to the mysteries of one's own soul, one will know how to respond to another's as well. Soul Mates

Dreams are works in progress. Achieve Your Dreams

Things to Be Happy About: A living museum. Roadside berry bushes. Exhausted cats. 14,000 Things to Be Happy About

When you're the one setting the table, you can give the funny fork to your sister. Really Important Stuff My Kids Have Taught Me

As you work toward aligning yourself with your own individual truth, you will be required to move out of the complaining phase of "it's not fair," if you want to move toward serenity. Focusing on the unfairness of circumstances keeps you comparing yourself with others rather than appreciating your own special uniqueness. If Life is a Game, These are the Rules

While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people. There are times when principle-centered living requires the subordination of schedules. Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Rituals and habits are important, but if we forget why we're doing them, of it they've lost meaning because at some level we've moved beyond them, then they become one more meaningless ceremony that isn't adding anything positive to our lives.  Simplify Your Life

While on the witness stand defending himself against charges of "gross indecency" based on homosexual acts, writer Oscar Wilde described homosexuality as beautiful, natural and the nobelest form of affection, it was at that moment that Wilde gave voice to a gay identity which had never before been articulated with such honesty and pride. Gay & Lesbian Calendar

Giraffe Stretch. While standing, slowly breathe in while raising your right arm straight above your head. Keeping your arm raised, slowly breathe out. As you breathe in slowly again, stretch your arm as if it were a giraffe's neck trying to reach a leaf on a tall tree. Breathe out slowly, and gradually lower you arm back down to your side. Repeat with your left arm, then with both arms together. Stress Busters

Slip a banana in a campfire!  Peel one side of a banana, scoot out the middle. Fill with mini marshmallows and chocolate. Fold back up. Wrap in foil. With an adult's help, place in embers until chocolate melts. Let cool and eat.  To Do Today

There is only one way to succeed in anything and that is to give it everything. - Vince Lombardi Win the Day!

Argentine Tango was born in the brothels of Buenos Aires at the turn of the century. In its early form, the Tango was a dance of sorrow, depicting not only frustrated love, but the suffering characteristic of poor immigrant life. After being accepted by the upper classes, it lost some of its abrasiveness and took on a more romantic, nostalgic air, though its structure remained the same. Its influences include Spanish, African and other Argentine folk dances. Living Language

TODAY'S ISSUE: MUSIC

Without music, life would be a mistake - Friedrich Nietzche. Music has the power to evoke images and feelings. Life music has more capacity to move us than recorded music. If you do not already make your own music, you may want to consider doing so. Every man's soul makes a musical song; for Francisco of Assisi it was a stringed instrument, and for Thoreau the flute. For many contemporary men, the heartbeat of the drum has come to have special meaning. Music is a gift from the Divine. It can dramatically change how we are feeling. Today I will release myself to music. I can find some music that speaks to me, opens me up, calls up images. A Quiet Strength: Meditations on the Masculine Soul

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life - Berthold Auerbach. We may have spiritual experiences in our daily lives that we don't think of as spiritual. For many of us, music lifts us from the practical and mundane circumstances of our lives into communion with the universe. One man may like to listen to country music on the radio, another one might play the piano, and another may go to rock concerts. For each of us, music is a different world from the reasonable, hard data, task-oriented world we usually live in. Music touches our feelings and speaks to us in a special language. It brings us back to special times in the past, perhaps recalls a night of fun and excitement or a person we shared a song with. Music lifts our spirits and opens us to deeper feelings we weren't in touch with. Many of us meet our Higher Power through the music we love. Today, I will make room for the restorative powers of music in my life. Touchstones

Hey Man: Did you make a difference yesterday? Let us know at Contact Us. Take a dance class. Dare try the Argentine Tango? What Every Man Needs to Know. Want to make a difference but you don't know where to start? l

BOOK OF THE WEEK

The 40-Year-Old Version: Humoirs of a divorced dad by Joel Schwartzberg. In a very funny and endearing collection of personal essays, award-winning and nationally-published writer shares stories of his ever-evolving, self-defining dadhood. This is a great book for any parent, particularly dads trying to sharpen their role and looking for insight through hysterical, heartbreaking, and heroic example. The essays are short and sharp, and many have been previously published in major newspapers and magazines. www.bookfordad.com, Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing, www.WyMacPublishing.com 2009, ISBN 978-1-932279-98-6

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  • Ted Braude - BoysWork - a columnist in the The Detroit Free Press "Body and Mind" section www.menstuff.org/columns/braude/archive.html
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  • Ken Byers - Transition - on men's life transitions - www.menstuff.org/columns/byers/archive.html
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  • David Copeland - How to Succeed with Women - www.menstuff.org/columns/howtosucceed/archive.html
  • Forrest Craver - Spirituality & Social Change - www.menstuff.org/columns/craver/archive.html
  • Layne & Paul Cutright - Powerful Partnerships - relationship issues - www.menstuff.org/columns/cutright/archive.html
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  • Jed Diamond - Irritable Male Syndrome - www.menstuff.org/columns/diamond/archive.html
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  • Barry Durdant-Hollamby - Creating Change - creating change in your life - www.menstuff.org/columns/durdant/archive.html
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  • Nancy Fagan - Expert Dating Advice - with Nancy Fagan - www.menstuf.org/columns/fagan/archive.html
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  • Kim Garretson - Mansgland - using humor to encourage prostate exams - www.menstuff.org/columns/mansgland/archive.html
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  • Ron Louis - How to Succeed with Women - www.menstuff.org/columns/howtosucceed/archive.html
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  • Wendy McElroy - Wendy McElroy on Feminism, www.menstuff.org/columns/mcelroy/archive.html
  • Robert N. Minor - Minor Details - on GBT sexuality - www.menstuff.org/columns/minordetails/archive.html
  • Robert L. Moore - Man & Mythology - www.menstuff.org/columns/moore/archive.html
  • Dennis W. Neder - Being a Man - general questions about men's lives - www.menstuff.org/columns/neder/archive.html
  • Marty Nemko - Worklife - general questions about men and work - www.menstuff.org/columns/nemko/archive.html
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  • Linda Nielsen - Embracing the Father - working with the father/daughter relationship. www.menstuff.org/columns/nielsen/archive.html
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  • Mark Phillips - Stay-at-Home-Dads - helping men maintain that which makes us men, instead of becoming hairy Mom-substitutes - www.menstuff.org/columns/phillips/archive.html
  • Carey Roberts - Socialism & Feminism - is a social commentator on political correctness. www.menstuff.org/columns/roberts/archive.html
  • Perry Rose - Dating, Relationship, Sex
  • Glenn Sacks - His Side - on fathering - www.menstuff.org/columns/sacks/archive.html
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  • Hugo Schwyzer - A Pro-feminist's Response - www.menstuff.org/columns/schwyzer/archive.html
  • Michael Shaffran - Men's Issues - www.menstuff.org/columns/shaffran/archive.html
  • Judith Sherven - Judith & Jim - discussion and answers regarding relationship issues - www.menstuff.org/columns/judith&jim/archive.html
  • Judith Sherven - The New Intimacy - www.menstuff.org/columns/newintimacy/archive.html
  • George Simons - Bellicose Veins - is a US specialist in intercultural and gender communication who hangs out in Mandelieu - la Napoule, France, as well as in Santa Cruz, CA. www.menstuff.org/columns/simons/archive.html
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  • David B. Smith - Fighting Father Dave - www.menstuff.org/columns/smith/archive.html
  • Jim Sniechowski - Judith & Jim - discussion and answers regarding relationship issues - www.menstuff.org/columns/judith&jim/archive.html
  • Jim Sniechowski - The New Intimacy - www.menstuff.org/columns/newintimacy/archive.html
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  • Wuzup?! - National or international events happening this month - www.menstuff.org/columns/whassup/archive.html

AWARENESS EVENTS THIS MONTH

July is Freedom Month. If you enjoy the benefits this country has to offer, you might check out what kind of men it took to found this country. The Fourth of July has more to it than beer, picnics, and baseball games. Read this! July is Anti-Boredom; National Mobility; Purposeful Parenting: Recreation and Parks; The month of the Muslim new year; Hemochromatosis Screening Awareness; National Foreign Language Month.

June 27 - July 4: Special Recreation Week. June 25-July 1: Deaf-Blindness Awareness Week. June 27 - July 4: Special Recreation Week. Jul 1-8 Music for Life; July 3-Aug 15: Air Conditioning Appreciation Days. Jul 4-10 - Freedom Week. July 8:-14: National Laundry Workers; National Therapeutic Recreation: Take Charge of Change Week. Jul 9-15 - Nude Recreation. July 15-21: *Captive Nations; Legal Revolution; National Plan to Promote Your Business Week. Jul 1 UN Day of Cooperation; International Joke; National Financial Freedom; National Recreation and Parks; National Purposeful Parenting, Jul 2 - I Forgot; Ducktona 500 Day; July 3: Compliment Your Mirror: Stay Out of the Sun Day. Jul 4 - Independence Day (U.S.); American Redneck; Fear from Fear of Speaking ; Independence-from-Meat Day; Sidewalk Egg Frying; Jul 5 - National Family Day, July 7: Father-Daughter Take a Walk Together; International UN Day of Cooperation. July 9: Don't Step on a Bee Day. July 10: Intern Appreciation Day. July 13: Skeptics' Day. July 14: Cow Apprecaition Day. July 15: National Ice Cream; Saint Swithin's Day. July 16: International Town Criers; Naitonal Get Out of the Doghouse Day. July 17: Wrong Way Corrigan Day. Jul 20 - Ugly Truck; Riot Act anniversary. July 21: Rat-Catchers Day. Jul 22 - Ice Cream Cone Day. July 23: Hot Enough For Ya Day. July 24: Cousins; Health and Happiness with Hypnosis Day. Jul 27 - *National Korean War Veterans Armistice; Take Your Houseplants for a Walk Day. July 29: *Parents' Day. Jul 30 - Father-In-Law Day, National Parent's Day.

* Means a Presidential Proclamation has been made.

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