This Too Shall Pass

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riding the wave of emotion

In that small space between the event and your response, remind yourself to “ride the wave of emotion.” When an upsetting even occurs, if we can just stop for a moment, identify the emotions that we are feeling, accept them without judging them, and remind ourselves that they will pass, we may find the courage to endure them for a little while. We can experience our feelings and make rational decisions all at the same time. We just need to make sure we are in wise mind before we respond.

Originally posted on http://www.thesnowballeffect.com

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Penguins!!!

This is just a demo of publishing via email in WordPress…

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A little care package for you…

October 15, 2013 0

4 Ways the Government Shutdown Is Messing with Your Health

More great news regarding the shutdown!

#3: Your water supply is up for grabs… by bacteria and pollution.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was hit particularly hard by the shutdown, furloughing 94 percent of its employees. The agency can’t monitor air pollution emitted by factories and coal-fired power plants, nor can it monitor all the Superfund sites it’s trying to clean up. But it also can’t monitor your local water supply. "Nobody is going to be out inspecting wastewater-treatment plants, drinking-water-treatment plants, or landfills," John O’Grady, a union representative at the EPA’s Chicago office, told The Guardian newspaper. Although local water departments are required to test your drinking water on a regular basis, state governments are responsible for reporting violations of safe drinking-water standards to the EPA. If the EPA isn’t functioning, there’s no one to review those violations and enforce compliance with the law. There’s also no one monitoring rivers, lakes, and streams—which provide drinking water in some areas—for pollution from farms and factories.

Source: http://www.rodalenews.com/government-shutdown-impacts?cm_mmc=TheDailyFixNL-_-1466432-_-10152013-_-4_Ways_the_Government_Shutdown_Is_Messing_with_Your_Health_title

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Values

#true

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Two perspectives on the same thought…

…or, if you prefer, two sides of the same coin!

we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking einstein miscopono com

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October 15, 2013 1

Perseverance

Kristin Barton Cuthriell

Perseverance: The Key to Success

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” -Babe Ruth

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. ” -Abraham Lincoln

My dad always told me, “Only those who attempt the ridiculous achieve the impossible.”

Keep going! You are worth it!

Have a great day.

xo, Kristin

A Babe Ruth Story. (frankhowsonblog.wordpress.com)
Perseverance (rosiemaysteiner.wordpress.com)
How to get to the secrets of success ?? (3mtravel.wordpress.com)

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October 14, 2013 0

WordPress plugins I use and love…

I break my own rules here. I say only use as many as you need and not a single one more. Inactive plugins should be deleted as the have an impact on your site even though they are inactive. Have any good ones that I missed?

The post WordPress plugins I use and love… appeared first on Living Business.

via Living Business http://business.toddlohenry.com/2013/10/14/wordpress-plugins-use-love/

October 14, 2013 0

Stallman: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand? | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

Good question and good answer!

Things I grab, motley collection

The current level of general surveillance in society is incompatible with human rights. To recover our freedom and restore democracy, we must reduce surveillance to the point where it is possible for whistleblowers of all kinds to talk with journalists without being spotted. To do this reliably, we must reduce the surveillance capacity of the systems we use.

Using free/libre software, as I’ve advocated for 30 years, is the first step in taking control of our digital lives. We can’t trust non-free software; the NSA uses and even creates security weaknesses in non-free software so as to invade our own computers and routers. Free software gives us control of our own computers, but that won’t protect our privacy once we set foot on the internet.

via Stallman: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand? | Wired Opinion | Wired.com.

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Poor Monday

The folks at Escape Adulthood write:

Monday wishes he was Wednesday. He has giant posters of Saturday on his bedroom wall. Everybody turns the other way when they see Monday walking down the hall.

Poor Monday.

I used to suffer from a condition known as Sunday Night Dread, that sinking feeling you get when the freedom of the weekend is gasping its last breath. I used to think Monday was the worst.

And then I realized that Monday is just a patsy.

It’s convenient to throw Monday under the bus when we’re unhappy about how our story is going. I propose that we quit picking on Monday and try a different tack. Here are a few options: Click here!.

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October 13, 2013 0

I Deserve Better Than This

#true

#true

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Sunday Morning: Jack

Kind of a modern day Thoreau, eh?

Live & Learn

“Meet Jack English, a 93-year-old legend who lives in a cabin isolated deep in the Ventana Wilderness, located in the Santa Lucia Mountains along the Central Coast of California. While on a hunting trip he learned that an old homestead in the Ventana Wilderness was being put up for auction by the estate of a childless heiress. He put a bid on the property and won. On the land he built a small cabin using materials from the land and milling trees by hand. When his wife passed away, Jack effectively left “society” and moved to the cabin full time.”

More on Jack English @ The Santa Barbara Independent: Jack

Good Sunday Morning

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October 13, 2013 0

The view from my window…

… right now!

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The air gold and so clean it quivers

What Leif Enger is trying to communicate resonates with me, but to me, it’s the October Blue that really makes fall pop; http://toddlohenry.com/2013/10/13/october-blue-is-my-favorite-color/

Live & Learn

“I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.”

~ Leif Enger, Peace Like a River

“In 2002, Peace Like a River was a National Bestseller and hailed as one of the year’s top five novels by Time, and selected as one of the best books of the year by nearly all major newspapers.” If you haven’t read this wonderful book, it is worth your time. Find it here.

Credits: Thank you Dan @ Your Eyes Blaze Out for the quote. Photograph: micspics444 @ flicker.

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October 13, 2013 0

The brain as a ‘reducing valve’…

I try to listen to one mediation from @tarabrach every day; in this mediation below, she talks about the concept of the brain as a ‘reducing valve’:

That is an interesting concept to me and I was able to read more about it here if you are interested in knowing more about to what she was referring:

Reflecting on my experience, I find myself agreeing with the eminent Cambridge philosopher, Dr. C. D. Broad, \”that we should do well to consider much more seriously than we have hitherto been inclined to do the type of theory which Bergson put forward in connection with memory and sense perception. The suggestion is that the function of the brain and nervous system and sense organs is in the main eliminative and not productive. Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe. The function of the brain and nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember at any moment, and leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely to be practically useful.\” Continue reading “The brain as a ‘reducing valve’…” →

October 13, 2013 0

What’s the Cat Hair?

Karen Jasper writes:

Almost all young mammals, including humans, play. Why is that? In a nutshell, most social scientists believe that play is a way to feel joy and is very very important in how well young mammals evolve. So in 1998 a neuroscientist named Jaak Pansepp conducted in depth studies on young rat pups at play in their cages. He observed them initiating rough and tumble and clearly enjoyable play with each other for four days straight. On the fifth day, he introduced a minimally threatening stimulus into their environment: a hair from a cat. He left the hair in the cage for only 24 hours and then removed it. Guess what happened to the rat pups’ play after the cat hair was introduced and then removed? Click here to find out!