12 Things I Learned in High School

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Tuesday, April 07, 2009

snopes.com: Jasmine the Greyhound

Jasmine, the timid, abused, deserted waif, became the animal sanctuary's surrogate mother, a role for which she might have been born. The list of abandoned and orphaned youngsters she has cared for comprises five fox cubs, four badger cubs, 15 chicks, 8 guinea pigs, 2 stray puppies, and 15 rabbits.

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Wednesday, February 04, 2009

I needed this today
Current mood:

exhausted
Category: Life

Notes from the Universe's Oath
(of which I took)
In the face of adversity, uncertainty, and conflicting sensory information, I hereby pledge to remain ever mindful of the magical, infinite, loving reality in which I live. A reality that conspires tirelessly in my favor.I further recognize, that living within space and time, as a Creation amongst my Creations, is the ultimate Adventure, because thoughts become things, dreams come true, and all things remain forever possible.As a Being of Light, I hereby resolve to live, love, and be happy at all costs, no matter what, with reverence and kindness for All. So be it!
AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy AAOnline.net)
February 4, 2009
Usefulness

We hear a lot in meetings that a
grateful alcoholic doesn't get drunk.

What I have found, though, reaches
far beyond feeling grateful,

and that is feeling useful.

I believe that when I am grateful,
It is usually for what I have been given.

However, when I am useful,
it is for what I am able to give.

If nothing else, the program of AA has
offered me the ability to be useful.

And for that, I am eternally grateful.
AA Grapevine, February 2009, Vol. 65 No. 9, p. 53

Thought to Ponder . . .

To be sensitive is to feel the thoughts and hearts of others

as only you would want yours felt.

Today's thought from Hazelden is:

Reflection for the Day

Today
I'll try to settle for less than I wish were possible, and be willing to not only accept it but to appreciate it. Today, I'll not expect too much of anyone - especially myself. I'll try to remember that contentment comes from gratefully accepting the good that comes to us, and not from being furious at life because it's not "better." Do I realize the difference between resignation and realistic acceptance?

Today I Pray

May I not set my sights unrealistically high, expect too much. May I look backwards long enough to see that my self-set, impossible goals were the trappings of my addiction; too often I ended up halfway there, confronted by my own failure. Those "foiled-again," "I've-failed-again" feelings became monumental excuses to give in to my compulsion, which blanketed my miseries. May I avoid that sick old pattern. May I be realistic.

Today I Will Remember

Good is good enough.

12 Things I Learned in High School

Tuesday February 3, 2009

Categories:Inspiration and Prayer

As I mentioned in yesterday's video, I recently returned to my high school alma mater. This is the brief talk I gave to the high school students.

1. Act as if you belong.

In 12-step support groups this means "fake it til you make it." I just remember being incorrectly placed in an honor's class. I sat there next to Tony M., a fellow average-intelligence classmate who I recently hooked up with on Facebook, wondering what language everyone was speaking. And Tony reminded me that by acting as though we belonged, we fooled Mr. Troha into giving us As!

2. Today can be the beginning of a new life.

My senior year, a few teachers pulled me aside and challenged me on my self-destructive behavior involving alcohol. Apparently some stories about the Homecoming dance had made it back to them. "What's going on?" one religion teacher asked me. It prompted me to ask the hard questions and confront my alcohol addiction. I remember sitting up in bed one evening that year wondering if the decision to abstain from alcohol that day would really influence the rest of my life. Twenty years later, I can confidently answer that question: absolutely.

3. Never lose your sense of humor.

Humor is by far my strongest ally in the fight against negative thinking and despair . I try to remind myself daily of what G.K. Chesterton said, "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly."

4. Success is 99 percent sweat, one percent talent.

Take it from this girl who didn't break 1,000 on her SATs. Perserverance. That's all you need. Just as the Japanese proverb says, "Fall seven times, get up eight." Or an anonymous saying "The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its
ground."

5. Gratitude and kindness will open many doors for you.

My dad taught me this one. As a very savvy business man, he stressed the importance of "thank you" notes, and expressions of appreciation, especially to the gate keepers like the assistants to the publishers you want to publish your book. A little kindness to her will get you in the door.

6. Compare and despair.

Something to keep in mind: you never know the whole story on people you envy, so try not to compare your insides with another person's outsides . I can confidently say that it will never lead to peace.

7. Give back.

Gandhi once wrote that "the quickest way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." The only surest way out of my pain has been to box it up, sort through it, and figure out how it might help someone else.

8. Peer pressure never goes away.

Your friends influence you more than you think. According to the latest studies, the risk for obesity increased 171 percent among persons with obese friends. The risk only increased 37 percent for persons with an obese spouse, and 40 percent for folks with obese siblings. So choose your pals wisely.

9. Ask for help when you need it.

I did that for the first time when I was a senior in high school, and I've been doing it ever since.

10. Be yourself.

Anna Quindlen writes in her small giftbook "Being Perfect" that "Nothing important or meaningful or beautiful or interesting ever came out of imitations. Perfection is static, even boring. Your unvarnished self is what is wanted."

11. Forget about perfection.

Leonard Cohen writes in the lyrics to his song, "Anthem," that there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in .

12. Lean on God.

He is always there. Don't be afraid to call on him.

Like Psalm 145 says "The Lord is close to all who call on him."

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Keepers of the Wisdom by Karen Casey

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Today's thought from Hazelden
Current mood:

exhausted
Category: Religion and Philosophy

Today's thought from Hazelden is:

Let every man be occupied in the highest employment of which he is capable and die conscious that he has done his best.
--Sidney Smith

Doing something that we feel good about never loses its importance to our lives. And it need not be a prestigious occupation for our work to be important. In fact, who are we to decide what kind of job is truly important? The most menial of tasks may have a profound impact on a particular man or woman today, and that's what really counts in God's grand scheme.

It is said by some that the highest order of employment is the offering of love and acceptance to the people on our paths today. For us to define employment solely in terms of career is shortsighted. Every minute we're awake we're busy with something, and that means we're employed.

A broader definition of employment gives every one of us a chance to put in a productive day. Knowing that our presence, our words, our willingness to listen to someone else has made life better for them makes it better for us, too.

I will go to bed fulfilled if I have shown love and respect for others today.

You are reading from the book:

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Barometric Pressure & Fly Fishing
Current mood:

curious
Category: Life

While trying to figure out if barometric pressure
had anything to do with everyone's woes
(http://www.weather.com/activities/health/achesandpains)
I came across a fly fishing website...you have to
check out the titles of some of these links:
(who knew this many people could get this excited about Fly Fishing)

General Fly Fishing - International

Carp.com —A popular UK-based Web site for carp fishing enthusiasts.
Damsel Fly Fishing — The only female advanced qualified Salmon instructor in the UK.
EpirusFishing.com — Guided fly fishing in northwestern Greece.
Fly Fishers' Republic — A general resource site that includes articles on fishing tactics, angling entomology, fly-tying step-by-steps and readers stories.
FlyfishingAcademy.co.uk —Fly fishing instruction and guiding for wild trout and rainbow trout from the stillwaters of East Midlands and East Anglia.
FlyFishingHistory.com — British fly fishing history Web site by Andrew Herd, author of The Fly, History of Fly Fishing, and other books.
Fujioka's Home Page — Fine art and information on Japanese and western pacific fly fishing.
JamesCard.net — An American fly fishing guide and writer in South Korea
LetsFlyFish.com — Site of British fly casting instructor Ally Gowans.
Midlands Fly Fishing — Fly fishing instruction and guiding in the U.K. Peak District and Cotswolds.
New Zealand Fishing — Online guide to fly fishing in New Zealand with detailed location maps and info about regulations, fly supplies, guides and accommodations.
US Youth Fly Fishing Team — Web site for the U.S. Youth Fly Fishing Team.

Guides, Outfitters and Lodges

AztecAnglers— San Juan River, New Mexico fly fishing outfitters.
Big Sky Fishing — A general interest Montana fishing site with plenty of fly fishing info plus a great list of Webcam links.
Betts Guide Service — Web site for Chad Betts's Michigan guide service with reports on the Muskegon, White and Pere Marquette rivers.
Bite Me Kayak Fishing Belize — Ambergris Key kayak fly fishing service.
BoneRanger — Upper Florida Keys guide Ann Holahan's Web site.
BookItBeliz.com — Booking agent for Belize fly-fishing vacations.
Brant Oswald Fly Fishing — Web site for Montana-based veteran guide and casting instructor Brant Oswald.
BuckeyeFlyFishers.com — For Cincinnati, OH-area fly fishers.
CoastalFlyAngler — Web site of Eric Wallace, guide for Maine's Casco Bay and the Kennebec River.
Colorado Trout Hunters — Denver-area fly fishing guiding and instruction.
Echo River Trips — Fly fishing on the Middle Fork of the Salmon in Idaho and the Rogue in Oregon.
El Pescador — Fly fishing for bonefish and tarpon from Belize's Ambergris Caye.
Elk River Inn & Guide Service — Lodging and Orvis guide service based in the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia.
Fin and Feather Outfitters — Web site for Kevin Guerin, guide for the Florida Keys and Montana.
FlyFishingInNH.com — New Hampshire fly fishing site.
FlyFishNorCal.org — Web site for northern California conservation group, featuring maps, commentaries, and photos.
Full Circle Outfitters — Web site for Michael Guerin, guide on Montana's Madison, Yellowstone, Missouri, Big Hole, Blackfoot, and Rock Creek.
GuidedAway.com — An online directory of fly fishing guides from around the world.
HotFish Charters — Flats, inshore and backcountry fly fishing on Florida's Mosquito Lagoon.
HuntFishWithFly.com — Web site for Florida Keys guide Darren Williams.
Idaho River Journeys — Fly fishing on Idaho's Middle Fork of the Salmon.
Leo Wright Guide Service — Web site for Capt. Leo Wright, offering fly fishing and light tackle float trips on the Muskegon River and surrounding waters of NW Michigan.
Madi-Stone Outfitters — Web site for Livingston, Montana-based guide Rob Olson, who guides in the greater Yellowstone area.
MaineFlyFish.com — Web site for Kevin McKay, guide on Maine's Kennebec and Penobscot Rivers, including forums, news and advice on Maine fly fishing.
Munsungan Hunting & Fishing Club —Fishing for native brook trout landlocked salmon in the North Maine Woods.
Northeast Fly Fishing Guide Service —Web site for Orvis-endorsed guide Walt Geryk, who fishes New York, Western Massachusetts, and Cape Cod.
North Star Guide Service —Web site for outfitters serving the central New Hamphire and lakes region.
Owen River Lodge — New Zealand's only 5-star specialist fly fishing lodge.
RoseRiverFarm.com — A private fishery on the Rose River in Virginia's Madison County.
SeaandStreamFlyFishing — Southwest Florida and Montana fly fishing guide Austin Lowder's Web site
Steelheadquarters.com — Herb Imondi's northeast Ohio steelhead fishing site.
StuartFlyFishing — Web site for Florida east coast guide Capt. John Meskauskas.
TroutFishers — Web site TroutFishers guide service, which is based in Kingsport, Tennessee, and fishes East Tennessee, Western North Carolina, and southwestern Virginia.
Weatherby's — One of the oldest and best-known sporting camps in the U.S., located on Maine's Grand Lake Stream.
Wilson's Sporting Camps — Miramichi Atlantic salmon fishing guides and outfitter for more than 150 years.
Yellowstone TroutScout Outfitters — Fly fishing outfitter located in Livingston, Montana, fishing the Yellowstone, Missouri, and Madison rivers and Paradise Valley Spring Creeks.

Special Interest

BassBugCentral.com — Warmwater expert John Likakis's bass bug Web site.
The Fly Fishing Insider — Fly fishing product reviews, location reports, and techniques articles (subscription-based).
FlyTyingForum.com — An excellent forum and information site for fly tiers.
RoughFisher.com — A roughfisherman's journal. An inside look at catching underutilized fish with a fly rod.
SpeyBorn.com — Web site for professional fly casting instructor and two-handed rod expert Simon Gawesworth.
TroutNut.com — An extensive online scientific and photographic reference for freshwater fly tiers and stream entomologists.

Fly Fishing Weblogs & Bulletin Boards

40 Rivers to Freedom — A blog by northeast angler and tier Alex Cerveniak.
Angler Wannabe — A Utah-based fly fishing blog.
Bish on Fish — New Zealand guide Tony Bishop's fishing blog.
DanBlanton.com — Includes a very popular bulletin board.
Dragfree — A blog devoted to fly fishing for native species.
FishingJones — One of the most actively updated Weblogs, covers all kinds of fishing.
FishSpawn — Usually with some good photos and sometimes video produced by Angling Exploration Group.
FlyAnglersOnline.com — One of the largest online fly fishing Web sites, with over 37,000 pages of information.
FlyFishRadio.com — The first "Podcast" site for fly fishers.
TheFlyFishingRabbi —Musings about trout, God and all things Jewish.
Fly Times "Old Timey" Fishing Blog —A not-so-behind-the-times blog with a variety of interesting commentary.
Gillraker — Weblog of excellent fishing writing started by author Andrew Steketee.
Long Rodding in Garden City, Singapore — The title says it all.
Mike's Euro Fly Fishing and Travel Blog — A U.S. expatriot's photoblog and journal about fly fishing in several European countries.
Moldy Chum — A sometimes irreverent and always entertaining Weblog by an industry insider.
The Outdoor Weblog — J. R. Absher's hunting, fishing and general outdoors blog.
Ozarks Fly Anglers — Weblog by Ken Morrow, who writes about fly fishing in Missouri, Arkansas, Eastern Oklahoma.
Rivers of a Lost Coast — Weblog by the producers of the upcoming movie "Rivers of a Lost Coast" about the heritage of northwest coast steelhead fishing.
Sweaty Waders — The Weblog of Sweetwater Travel and Sweetwater Fly Shop of Livingston, Montana.
The Southern Fly Fisher — Mark Rumph's blog about fly fishing in the southern U.S.
Tales from the Far Bank — Journalist Karl Moffatt's blog about fly fishing in New Mexico and the U.S. west.
TroutUnderground — Tom Chandler's blog about all things trout, written from his home base on California's upper Sacramento.
Urban Fly Fisher — By long-time blogger Alistair Stewart, mostly about his experiences fishing Scotland's River Kelvin.
Warm Fly — Web site and forums for fly fishers interested in bass, bluegill, crappie and other warmwater fish.
WayUpStream — Personal Weblog of Steve Stracqualursi, fly fishing product line director for Patagonia.
Wayward Fly Fishing — Toney Sisk's interesting blog and fly fishing article collection.
WickedOutdoorsy — Blog of the Pale Morning Media outdoors PR firm.

Fly Fishing Magazines

American Angler — A generalist fly fishing magazine based in the U.S.
The Drake — Irreverent, funny, erudite and, oddly enough, a fly fishing magazine.
Fish & Fly — Web site of Fish & Fly magazine, one of the more graphically appealing periodicals in the US.
Fly Tyer — A popular fly tying magazine.
Gray's Sporting Journal — Perhaps the most literate sporting and fly fishing publication available.
Hatches Magazine — A popular fly tying magazine Web site featuring videos.
ThisIsFly — A free online fly fishing magazine with a unique sense of style.

Fly Fishing Online Stores and Retailers

American Fly Fishing — Online store for American Fly Fishing Company in Sacramento, CA. The store also operates American Fly Fishing Travel.
The Book Mailer — Online seller of fly fishing books, DVDs, software, flies and gear.
Firefly Outfitters — Downtown Boston, MA flyshop and online fly fishing retailer.
FineFishArt — Online source for fish paintings, prints and images.
Fly Deal Flies — Discount hand-tied flies.
The Fly Shop — A Redding, CA-based retailer and travel agency that sells fly fishing equipment for trout fishing, freshwater, and sport fishing, fly tying equipment and fishing vacations.
Kiene's Fly Shop — Bill Kiene's popular fly shop in Sacramento, CA.
Leland Fly Fishing Outfitters — Web site and online store for San Francisco Bay area fly shop.
Orvis — Catalog site for the large sporting and fly fishing retailer.
PrimeFlies — Online seller of quality fishing flies and accessories.
Schmidt Outfitters — Michigan fly shop and online store established in 1976 and close to the Au Sable, Manistee and Pere Marquette.
Sweetwater Fly Shop — An online fly shop specializing in flies and tackle for all destinations. Located in Livingston, MT.
TroutFlies.com — Fly tying tutorials and online fly store.
Yellowstone Angler — A fly fishing retailer located in Livingston, Montana and serving anglers for Yellowstone Park, the Paradise Valley spring creeks and south-central Montana.

Regional Fly Fishing

Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum — A nonprofit, educational organization located in Livingston Manor, N.Y, and dedicated to preserving America's flyfishing heritage.
FlyCurrents.com — Subscription-based Web site for real-time reports on fishing conditions for trout anglers.
InsideSeam.com — Current stream and fly fishing reports from southwest Montana, culled from a variety of good sources.
Ozark Anglers — Extensive information and forum covering Arkansas and Ozarks-region fisheries, including the White River, Lake Taneycomo and Bull Shoals Lake.
TidalFish.com — A mostly east coast U.S. site with active message boards.
Washington Fly Fishing — One of the largest and best regional Web sites with a very active forum.
Women's Fly Fishing in Alaska — Guided Alaska fly fishing trips and schools for women and girls.

Fly Fishing Products & Manufacturers

Abel — Home of Abel Products: reels, rods and bags and other gear.
Charlie's Specialties — Makers of the Total Control Stripping basket and companion pack.
Costa Del Mar — Makers of high-quality sunglasses for fly fishers.
Keone Bamboo Fly Rods — Web site for Danny Heus's custom bamboo rods.
Patagonia — The fly fishing section of the Patagonia Web site.
Rage All Natural Insect Repellent — Makers of non-toxic, non-corrosive waterproof and sweatproof insect repellent.
Scientific Anglers — The world's largest fly line manufacturer.
Tor Brands — Manufacturers of snap-on strike indicators.
Wonderfurl — Makers of handcrafted furled leaders.
Wood Watercraft — Makers fine hand-crafted drift boats, canoes and long boats.

Conservation, Education and Research

The American Museum of Fly Fishing — Web site of the Manchester, Vermont museum, which contains an enormous collection of art and items of historical interest to fly fishers.
American Rivers — Monitors and helps restore endangered U.S. rivers.
Bonefish & Tarpon Unlimited — Projects and research to support bonefish and tarpon.
Federation of Fly Fishers (FFF) — Fly fishing conservation and education group.
FishBase — An enormous searchable database on worldwide fish species and identification.
The Nature Conservancy — A large U.S.-based conservation organization.
Save Our Wild Salmon — Salmon and steelhead conservation and river restoration.
Trout Unlimited — Web site for the largest freshwater conservation group.
The Wild Salmon Center — Organization for Pacific Rim salmon conservation.
Wild Steelhead Coalition — Wild steelhead conservation for the U.S. Pacific northwest region.

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Saturday, January 17, 2009

How many leaders can we have?
Current mood:

uncomfortable
Category: Life

I received this numerology report for my birthday:

As an 18 your primary purpose is to learn to be honest, open and confident with yourself while you use your creativity to become successful through your own principles and higher ideals.

You have chosen a life of wisdom and of honesty that requires you to live up to the high standards and principles that you establish for yourself. As you grow you will come to use the abundant power and energy that you have created in your life. You will be inspiring and powerful as a leader, but you most remember to temper any extremes that you may have.

Creatively you are full of ideas and imagination. You will learn to accept this creativity and the self-awareness that comes with it by getting past any feelings you may have of insecurity or self-blame. Your inner self-ambition will be rewarded and prove to be the one key to your successful drive and purpose.

Eventually you will come to define your own set of principles of justice and integrity that are the essence of your beliefs. These beliefs will generally steer you toward a generous and dedicated life of sharing and service to others.

Assets

In your most positive you are outgoing and successful, as an inspired and inspiring leader. You desire to follow your own principles has created a life you enjoy and your deep sense of commitment, honesty and service is what you are known for. Others look to you for leadership and inspiration.

You are happy to share your success with yourself and others. You are creative and hard working, drawn to a humanitarian cause that helps others and yourself.

Talents

You are inclined toward success, creativity and inspired personal values; this makes you best suited to leadership positions: surgeon, government representative, attorney and manager are a few occupations that you may like.

You are constantly pursuing your desire to help others and you also have a deep appreciation of the arts. This suits you to fields such as actor, writer, artist or interior decorator. You generally need to be inspired creatively to feel fulfilled, and most importantly you must feel that you are of service to humankind.

Following the 18 Path

You have learned to come to terms with your principles and values. You can balance your own higher ideals with those of others as you work toward your goal and follow your own sense of justice. This has helped you to be inspired and to achieve leadership and awareness without sounding judgmental. You have learned to accept and understand others and to be compassionate as you receive new lessons and values while you follow your own path of creativity, power and success.

Famous 18 Life Path Birthdays:
(So are these mostly a bunch of
frustrated leaders? Since we all can't be one?)

18, Tue, Jan 08, 1935, Elvis Presley
18, Fri, Jan 08, 1926, Soupy Sales
18, Sun, Jan 09, 1898, Gracie Fields
18, Tue, Jan 17, 1989, Yvonne Zima
18, Sun, Jan 17, 1971, Kid Rock
18, Wed, Jan 17, 1962, Jim Carrey (I have way too much in
common with him...He is also Capricorn with a Gemini moon)
18, Tue, Jan 17, 1899, Al Capone
18, Mon, Jan 26, 1953, Lucinda Williams
18, Wed, Jan 26, 1944, Angela Davis
18, Sat, Jan 26, 1935, Bob Uecker
18, Tue, Jan 27, 1970, Jennifer LB Leese
18, Sun, Jan 29, 1950, Ann Jillian
18, Wed, Feb 07, 1962, Garth Brooks
18,   Fri, Feb 07, 1908, Larry "Buster" Crabbe
18, Thu, Feb 08, 1979, Josh Keaton
18, Sun, Feb 08, 1925, Jack Lemmon
18, Mon, Feb 09, 1942, Carole King
18, Sun, Feb 11, 1940, Bobby "Boris" Pickett
18, Sat, Feb 16, 1935, Sonny Bono
18, Sat, Feb 17, 1934, Alan Bates
18, Tue, Feb 17, 1925, Hal Holbrook
18, Sat, Feb 18, 1933, Yoko Ono
18, Sun, Feb 25, 1917, Anthony Burgess
18, Sat, Feb 26, 1916, Jackie Gleason
18, Sat, Feb 27, 1897, Marian Anderson
18, Fri, Feb 27, 1807, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
18, Sun, Feb 29, 1976, Jeff "Ja Rule" Atkins
18, Thu, Feb 29, 1940, Gretchen Christopher
18, Mon, Feb 29, 1904, Jimmy Dorsey
18, Mon, Mar 06, 1944, Kiri Te Kanawa
18,   Sat, Mar 06, 1926, Alan Greenspan
18, Wed, Mar 07, 1934, Willard Scott
18, Wed, Mar 09, 1932, Keely Smith
18, Wed, Mar 11, 1903, Lawrence Welk
18, Wed, Mar 15, 1944, Sly Stone
18,    Fri, Mar 15, 1935, Judd Hirsch
18,   Thu, Mar 17, 1960, Arye Gross
18,   Sat, Mar 17, 1951, Kurt Russell
18,   Fri, Mar 18, 1977, Devin Lima
18, Wed, Mar 18, 1959, Irene Cara
18, Tue, Mar 18, 1941, Wilson Pickett
18,    Fri, Mar 18, 1932, John Updike
18, Tue, Mar 24, 1953, Louie Anderson
18, Thu, Mar 25, 1943, Paul Michael Glaser
18,   Sun, Mar 25, 1934, Gloria Steinem
18,   Sat, Mar 26, 1960, Marcus Allen
18,   Thu, Mar 26, 1942, Erica Jong
18, Mon, Apr 05, 1926, Roger Corman
18, Sun, Apr 05, 1908, Bette Davis
18, Sun, Apr 06, 1952, Marilu Henner
18, Sat, Apr 07, 1951, Janis Ian
18,   Fri, Apr 07, 1933, Wayne Rogers
18, Wed, Apr 07, 1915, Billie Holiday
18, Wed, Apr 07, 1897, Walter Winchell
18, Mon, Apr 08, 1968, Patricia Arquette
18,    Fri, Apr 11, 1947, Meshach Taylor
18, Sun, Apr 14, 1935, Loretta Lynn
18, Wed, Apr 16, 1924, Henry Mancini
18, Tue, Apr 17, 1923, Harry Reasoner
18, Sun, Apr 18, 1976, Melissa Joan Hart
18,   Tue, Apr 18, 1967, Maria Bello
18,   Tue, Apr 24, 1934, Shirley MacLaine
18,    Fri, Apr 25, 1969, Renée Zellweger
18,   Thu, Apr 27, 1922, Jack Klugman
18,   Thu, May 06, 1915, Orson Welles
18,   Sun, May 07, 1950, Tim Russert
18, Tue, May 07, 1833, Johannes Brahms
18, Wed, May 08, 1940, Peter Benchley
18, Wed, May 08, 1940, Rick Nelson
18, Wed, May 08, 1895, Bishop Fulton Sheen
18,   Thu, May 13, 1926, Beatrice Arthur
18, Sun, May 14, 1961, Tim Roth
18, Wed, May 14, 1952, David Byrne
18, Wed, May 14, 1727, Thomas Gainsborough
18,   Thu, May 15, 1969, Emmitt Smith
18,   Tue, May 16, 1905, Henry Fonda
18,   Sun, May 18, 1930, Pernell Roberts
18,   Sat, May 18, 1912, Perry Como
18,    Fri, May 23, 1952, Marvin Hagler
18, Thu, May 26, 1949, Philip Michael Thomas
18, Thu, May 26, 1949, Hank Williams, Jr.
18, Mon, May 26, 1913, Peter Cushing
18, Wed, May 26, 1886, Al Jolson
18,    Fri, May 29, 1874, G.K. Chesterton
18, Sun, May 31, 1908, Don Ameche
18, Thu, Jun 03, 1926, Colleen Dewhurst
18, Thu, Jun 03, 1926, Allen Ginsberg
18, Sun, Jun 03, 1917, Leo Gorcey
18, Sun, Jun 04, 1961, Sam Harris
18, Thu, Jun 05, 1969, Brian McKnight
18,    Sat, Jun 07, 1958, Prince
18,    Fri, Jun 07, 1940, Tom Jones
18, Mon, Jun 11, 1945, Adrienne Barbeau
18,   Thu, Jun 11, 1936, Chad Everett
18,   Sun, Jun 13, 1943, Malcolm McDowell
18,   Sat, Jun 14, 1969, Steffi Graf
18, Wed, Jun 14, 1933, Jerzy Kosinski
18, Wed, Jun 15, 1932, Mario Cuomo
18, Wed, Jun 21, 1944, Ray Davies
18,    Fri, Jun 24, 1842, Ambrose Bierce
18, Sat, Jun 25, 1949, Jimmie Walker
18,   Sat, Jun 25, 1949, Phyllis George
18,   Fri, Jun 29, 1900, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
18, Sat, Jun 30, 1917, Lena Horne
18, Thu, Jul 02, 1908, Thurgood Marshall
18,   Thu, Jul 03, 1952, Alan Autry
18, Fri, Jul 04, 1924, Eva Marie Saint
18,   Thu, Jul 06, 1922, William Schallert
18, Mon, Jul 08, 1839, John D. Rockefeller
18, Thu, Jul 09, 1964, Courtney Love
18, Wed, Jul 09, 1856, Nicola Tesla
18, Mon, Jul 12, 1943, Christine McVie
18, Thu, Jul 12, 1934, Van Cliburn
18, Sat, Jul 12, 1817, Henry David Thoreau
18, Mon, Jul 13, 1942, Harrison Ford
18, Thu, Jul 14, 1932, Roosevelt Grier
18,   Sat, Jul 14, 1923, Dale Robertson
18, Thu, Jul 21, 1988, Hatty Jones
18, Mon, Jul 21, 1952, Robin Williams
18, Sun, Jul 24, 1949, Michael Richards
18, Thu, Jul 26, 1956, Dorothy Hamill
18, Sat, Jul 26, 1902, Gracie Allen
18, Mon, Jul 26, 1875, Carl Jung
18, Tue, Jul 31, 1951, Barry Van Dyke
18, Fri, Aug 03, 1951, Jay North
18, Thu, Aug 07, 1884, Billie Burke
18, Sun, Aug 08, 1937, Dustin Hoffman
18, Fri, Aug 09, 1963, Whitney Houston
18, Tue, Aug 09, 1927, Robert Shaw
18, Mon, Aug 13, 1860, Annie Oakley
18, Thu, Aug 15, 1912, Julia Child
18, Mon, Aug 16, 1920, Charles Bukowski
18, Wed, Aug 17, 1892, Mae West
18, Wed, Aug 18, 1954, Patrick Swayze
18, Thu, Aug 18, 1927, Rosalynn Carter
18, Thu, Aug 18, 1774, Meriwether Lewis
18, Sat, Aug 19, 1989, Lil' Romeo
18, Thu, Aug 21, 1924, Jack Weston
18, Tue, Aug 23, 1949, Shelley Long
18, Tue, Aug 23, 1949, Rick Springfield
18, Sat, Aug 24, 1912, Durward Kirby
18, Mon, Aug 28, 1899, Charles Boyer
18, Thu, Aug 30, 1951, Timothy Bottoms
18, Wed, Aug 31, 1977, Jeff Hardy
18, Sun, Sep 02, 1951, Mark Harmon
18, Thu, Sep 03, 1914, Kitty Carlisle-Hart
18, Sun, Sep 04, 1949, Tom Watson
18, Thu, Sep 05, 1912, John Cage
18, Sat, Sep 06, 1947, Jane Curtin
18, Tue, Sep 08, 1981, Jonathan Taylor Thomas
18, Sat, Sep 08, 1900, Claude Pepper
18, Mon, Sep 10, 1934, Charles Kuralt
18, Mon, Sep 10, 1934, Roger Maris
18, Tue, Sep 15, 1857, William H. Taft
18, Fri, Sep 16, 1955, Robin Yount
18, Sun, Sep 19, 1943, "Mama" Cass Elliott
18, Sat, Sep 21, 1968, Ricki Lake
18, Mon, Sep 21, 1959, Dave Coulier
18, Thu, Sep 21, 1950, Bill Murray
18, Tue, Sep 23, 1930, Ray Charles
18, Sat, Sep 26, 1981, Serena Williams
18, Tue, Sep 26, 1972, Shawn Stockman
18, Mon, Sep 26, 1774, John Chapman
18, Fri, Sep 28, 1934, Brigitte Bardot
18, Mon, Sep 28, 1925, Arnold Stang
18, Sun, Oct 17, 1971, Chris Kirkpatrick
18, Wed, Oct 18, 1961, Wynton Marsalis
18, Fri, Oct 26, 1962, Cary Elwes
18, Sun, Nov 02, 1913, Burt Lancaster
18, Thu, Nov 03, 1921, Charles Bronson
18, Mon, Nov 06, 1972, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos
18, Tue, Nov 10, 1959, MacKenzie Phillips
18, Thu, Nov 12, 1840, Auge Rodin
18, Sun, Nov 13, 1938, Jean Seberg
18, Fri, Nov 14, 1919, Veronica Lake
18, Thu, Nov 15, 1945, Frida Lyngstad
18, Sat, Nov 19, 1977, Kerri Strug
18, Sun, Nov 19, 1905, Tommy Dorsey
18, Sat, Nov 28, 1959, Judd Nelson
18, Tue, Nov 28, 1950, Ed Harris
18, Sun, Nov 30, 1930, G. Gordon Liddy
18, Sat, Nov 30, 1912, Gordon Parks
18, Sun, Dec 06, 1953, Tom Hulce
18, Fri, Dec 08, 1933, Flip Wilson
18, Mon, Dec 09, 1968, Kurt Angle
18, Tue, Dec 09, 1941, Beau Bridges
18, Tue, Dec 09, 1608, John Milton
18, Thu, Dec 16, 1943, Steven Bochco
18, Mon, Dec 18, 1950, Leonard Maltin
18, Fri, Dec 24, 1971, Ricky Martin
18, Sun, Dec 24, 1809, Kit Carson
18, Wed, Dec 25, 1907, Cab Calloway

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Friday, January 16, 2009

My day...
Current mood:

exhausted
Category: Life

My day:
- Awoken early by a phone call that a student with a gun was abducted at my daughter's school.
- The hall light burned out (and this apartment is extremely dark as it is, especially for an upstairs one).
- Got to go to pool therapy when the temperature outside was 40 below.
- My daughter's car didn't start; but mine did, although, for some reason, the breaks did not seem to be functioning well (besides the short in the ignition which smolders occasionally and the heat bites).
- When my daughter called for a ride to work, she also told me about breaking up with her boyfriend (her choice...thank God).
- I went to pick up my friend and her daycare kids and, when I went to get my keys out of my pocket, I got a paper cut from my appointment card...underneath my fingernail.
- I had an issue with my debit card at the store which made me late in getting my daughter to work (and I forgot to buy a light bulb).
- Amidst my hurrying and break issues.....I had 3 cars cut me off by turning in front of me and the roads are nothing but ice.
- My friend suggested that my daughter squeeze into the back with the kids which created an interesting situation when we got pulled over by a police officer for exhaust fumes coming out of the side of my car.
- The lack of heat and questionable ignition short made it interesting to pick my daughter up from work.
- And, honestly, that is just off the top of my head....and I am tired....and am starting to see things (I thought I saw an ant crawling across my speckled carpet).
- And Mercury will continue to be in retrograde until the end of the month.....I am ready to hibernate.

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Worthy of Love by Karen Casey

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Today's thought from Hazelden
Current mood:

exhausted
Category: Religion and Philosophy

Today's thought from Hazelden is:

When we are feeling unloved and depressed and empty inside, finding someone to give us love is not really the solution.
--Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D.

Each of us wants to be significant to someone else. And we are - we're significant to all the lives we're touching at this very moment.

The emptiness we sometimes feel is a good reminder that the women and men in our lives need our attention. Too much self-focus fosters our feelings of loneliness, and then with desperation we look to others to fill us up. The paradox is that we heal ourselves while offering our attention to another who is, by design, on our path.

It is not by chance our lives are intertwined. Loving someone today will heal two wounds, ours and theirs.

You are reading from the book:

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Thursday, January 15, 2009

DailyOM
Current mood:

anxious
Category: Religion and Philosophy

DailyOM

January 14, 2009
It’s Never Too Late
Getting Back To What You Love

There are times in life when we are committed to pursuing our passions. Every molecule in our body is focused on doing what we love. At other times, necessity and responsibility dictate that we put our dreams aside and do what needs to be done. It is during these moments that we may choose to forget what it is that we love to do. There are many other reasons for why we may leave our passions behind. A hobby may lose its appeal once we’ve realize it will never turn into our dream job. Someone important to us may keep telling us that our passions are childish and unsuitable – until we finally believe them.

Forgetting about what you love to do can be a form of self-sabotage. If you can forget about your dreams, then you never have to risk failure. But just because we’ve decided to ignore our passions doesn’t mean they no longer exist. Nothing can fill the emptiness that remains in a space vacated by a passion that we have tossed aside. Besides, life is too short to stop doing what you love, and it is never too late to rediscover your favorite things. If you gave up playing an instrument, painting, drawing, spending time in nature, or any other activity or interest that you once loved to do, now may be the time to take up that passion again. If you don’t remember what it is that you used to be passionate about, you may want to think about the activities or interests that you used to love or the dreams that you always wished you could pursue.

You don’t have to neglect your responsibilities to pursue your passions, and you don’t have to neglect your commitments to do what you love. When you make an effort to incorporate your interests into your life, the fire within you ignites. You feel excited, inspired, and fed by the flames that are sparked by living your life with passion for what you love.

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Saturday, January 10, 2009

Inspired
Current mood:

busy
Category: Religion and Philosophy

I was going to start out my blog with "How about a glass of hot Red Bull?"

Don't ask me why that became my inspired drink of choice this morning...
maybe the snow has finally gotten to me....LOL....
I'll let you know if there's side effects

I've read a lot of things that just "get me thinking" lately....
hopefully I can squeeze them in here before I have to go to my meeting.
To start off...I love Carl Jung quotes:
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart."
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What is obvious to me is that we did not create ourselves... life is something inside of you. You did not create it. Once you understand that, you are in a spiritual realm.
--Virginia Satir

We do not belong to ourselves, but to the universe. No one planned to come into existence; we just happened to find ourselves here. We are the expressions of a life force whose beginnings are in the forgotten past. What does this mean on a practical level for how we will live today? For one thing, maybe we don't need to take ourselves so seriously. And we certainly are not to judge our existence. We have a right to be here, just as everyone does.

We can live this day fully and not hold ourselves back. We may work hard, play, and enjoy it. We need not rein in or attempt to control this force which so far exceeds our individual powers. Rather, today we can learn to flow with the current.
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General Daily Horoscope for everyone

Today's powerful Cancer Full Moon fully reflects our hopes and dreams that are counterbalanced by pressing external events. Serious situations demand our attention, resonating with our memories in the present moment. We are pulled between being responsible and being true to ourselves. Although there is no one simple answer to the questions we now face, staying aware of the difference between the inner and outer realities can be helpful.

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(From Courage to Change)

I suspect that if I reclaimed all the minutes, hours, and days I've sacrificed to worry and fear, I'd add years to my life. When I succumb to worry, I open a Pandora's box of terrifying pictures, paranoid voices, and relentless self-criticism. The more attention I pay to this mental static, the more I lose my foothold in reality. Then nothing useful can be accomplished.

To break the cycle of worry and fear, I'm learning to focus all my attention on this very moment. I can turn away from destructive thoughts and concentrate instead on the sights and sounds around me: light and shadows, the earth beneath my feet, the pulse of everyday living -- all pieces of the here-and-now. These bits of reality help rescue me from the "what-ifs" and "should haves" by anchoring me in the present. Prayer and meditation, slogans, and phone calls to friends are other sources of serenity that bring me back to this moment. As I shut out the noise, I am more receptive to my Higher Power, and therefore much more able to work my way through difficult times.

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If I find more, I will let you know....but, alas, I must leave....to be continued

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Saturday, January 10, 2009

http://www.beliefnet.com/
Current mood:

exhausted
Category: Religion and Philosophy

This is from http://www.beliefnet.com/
I think it is some serious food for thought

Fields are spoiled by weeds;
people, by passion.
So what's given to those
free of passion
bears great fruit.

Fields are spoiled by weeds;
people, by aversion.
So what's given to those
free of aversion
bears great fruit.

-Dhammapada, 24, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

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