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N'Spirational Conversations Readers are always sending me tidbits of information, some of it too good to keep to myself. READ THIS!
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Bra Codes
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AND, just a thought for all the women out there........
MENtal illness, MENstrual cramps, MENtal breakdown,MENopause............
Ever notice how all of women's problems start with men?.........
And
When we have real trouble it's HISterectomy!!!!
Send this to all women to have a laugh AND, don't forget to have a mammogram!!!!!!
A Friend Is Like A Good Bra...
Hard to Find
Supportive
Comfortable
Always Lifts You Up
Never Lets You Down or Leaves You Hanging
And Is Always Close To Your Heart!!!
Share this with a friend!
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Did you know that companies in the US have said they would hire a white man with a felony record
and no high school education BEFORE they would hire a black man with NO criminal record
and a 4-year degree?
On July 23 at 9pm and July 24 at 9pm, CNN will premier a series, 'Black in America with Soledad
O'Brien' and I personally challenge you to watch it WITH your children, especially your sons, if you
have any, uninterrupted. The aforementioned statistic and many others will be revealed during the
series.
I had the privilege of meeting with Soledad O'Brien and actually SEEING this premier on Monday,
and what I saw brought tears to my eyes and anguish, frustration, and a sense of helplessness
to my soul.
On Monday the series will focus on Women and Families and Tuesday is dedicated entirely to the plight of the Black Man in America I beg and plead with you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE watch and internalize what you see and hear; no matter HOW disturbing the information revealed...you can (and will) thank me later.
Feel free to pass this email on or go here for more information:
<http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2008/black.in.america/>
PRESIDENTIAL PERFORMANCE There's astonishingly little of the actor about Barack Obama, and that's meant as a compliment. He doesn't soar or reach for rhetorical climaxes. He doesn't twist his audiences' heartstrings even when he's talking of matters close to his heart. When he speaks of his wife or his precious daughters, there's no throb in his voice. And does this make him bland or dull? Quite the opposite.
Somehow he has mastered the art of conveying feeling, strong feeling, without seeming emotionally manipulative. He stands there in his sober suit. His voice is firm, his body-language surprisingly still. He makes few, if any, movements with his hands or arms. In terms of delivery, he's as far from the Rev Jeremiah Wright, the old preacher he manages to berate without disowning, as it is possible to be. And all this combines to reinforce his basic message: I have a black face, but I am capable of representing the nation in all its diversity.
Indeed, you might almost say that he's leadership incarnate. Never, even for a moment, does Obama lose a sense of quiet power and effortless authority. He radiates dignity and decency. Myself, I didn't see all his speech, but I saw him tackle difficult subjects: Rev Wright, the story of slavery, Israel and the perverse and hateful ideology of radical Islam the supposedly wild and wide-eyed liberals who mistake his candidacy for a form of affirmative action, the exit polls that suggest he might be a polarizing force and, of course, his own ethnic origins.
Throughout, he struck me as infinitely credible and, indeed, presidential.
Remember Tony Blair's embarrassingly actorly reading of the lesson at Diana's funeral? Now imagine him in Obama's situation. The smile, the voice, the undulations of the body would be ingratiating. He would be saying, as ham actors often implicitly do: love me. Have you seen a replay of Richard Nixon's Checkers speech?
Imagine how he would have dealt with the passage in which Obama talks of his multihued family, starting with the grandparents who gave their all to the Second World War. Then call up YouTube and look at Obama in Philadelphia.. Somehow his serious and sober charisma leaves you feeling that, not only is he the man to heal the divisions left from America's very beginnings, but that he has the assurance, the intelligence, the stature to deal with such matters as terrorism, global warming, a faltering economy. As unactorly actor he gets five stars from me. As a president -- well, perhaps the world will see."
BENEDICT NIGHTINGAL
London Times
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From: Melvyn Williams <mwwii@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Mark Your Calendars - CNN Special: Black in America
(thanks also to Denise, Sharon, Shelley and others who sent this information as well)
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I haven't had so much fun while working in a long time. If you missed the 2008 Tribune's Annual Printers Row Book Fair, you'll have to wait until next year to join us for good reading, food and fun!
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A very special lady (Dr. Debra Common)sent this to me, I thought you'd appreciate it. Enjoy!
someone
is very proud of you
someone
is thinking of you
cares about you
misses you
someone
wants to talk to you
wants to be with you
hopes you aren't in trouble
someone
is thankful for the support you have
provided
wants to hold your hand
someone
hopes everything turns out all right
wants you to be happy
someone
wants you to find them
someone
is celebrating your successes
wants to give you a gift
think you ARE a gift
hopes you are not too cold, or too hot
wants to hug you
someone
loves you
wants to lavish you with small gifts
admires your strength
someone
is thinking of you and smiling
someone
wants to be your shoulder to cry on
wants to go out with you and have a lot of fun
someone
thinks the world of you
wants to protect you
would do anything for you
wants to be forgiven
is grateful for your forgiveness
someone
wants to laugh with you about old times
someone
remembers you and wishes you were there
someone
needs to know that your love is unconditional
somebody
values your advice
wants to tell you how much they care
wants to stay up watching old movies with
you
someone
wants to share their dreams with you
someone
wants to hold you in their arms
wants YOU to hold them in your arms
treasures your spirit
someone
wishes they could STOP time because of
you
someone
can't wait to see you
wishes that things didn't have to change
someone
loves you for who you are
someone
loves the way you make them feel
wants to be with you
hears a song that reminds them of you
wants you to know they are there for you
is glad that you're their friend
wants to be your friend
stayed up all night thinking about you
someone
is alive because of you
someone
is wishing that you would notice them
wants to get to know you better
someone
believes that you are their soul mate
someone
wants to be near you
misses your guidance and advice
someone
values your guidance and advice
someone
has faith in you
someone
trusts you
needs you to send them this letter
someone
needs your support
needs you to have faith in them
needs you to let them be your friend
someone
will cry when they read this
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Holidays are not enjoyed by everyone, especially Memorial Day. This particular holiday reminds us of loved ones who may no longer be with us, and it sometimes hurts. Sometime the pain is so bad, we just want to give up.
Many people feel lonely, lost, or left out for whatever reasons. Reasons are irrelevant. How can I say that? Because it's true. What is important is this.
We have a tendency to dwell on what was. (Past)We forget how to live in the now moment. Living in the present requires some un-doing, some un-learning, some un-thinking. It requires us to be open and receptive to a new kind of thinking, a new way of being. It is in this space, that we can begin to enjoy holidays that used to depress us, or any other day.
If you really think about it, a new way of thinking will allow you to experience this holiday (and other holidays) that you may have never experienced before. You may begin to see that it wasn't as bad as you thought it was. Then again, there's a part of the brain, and a part of the old you that doesn't want you to enjoy a new way of being. It's called your ego!
The ego lives on attachments.
The ego never wants to let go.
The ego is part of the little voice in your head that keeps you in fear, worried and thinking in terms of lack and limitation.
Remember, misery l-o-v-e-s company. The ego will keep you trapped in a place you don't want to be, longer than you care to be there. Ego will tell you that you have the right to be feeling bad. Ego will tell you this article is senseless. Ego will keep you in a state of mind that doesn't help you live your life to the fullest.
Now this is not to say that ego is all bad either, we just need to learn discernment, which comes with patience and prayer. We must learn to let go of old way of thinking, if we are to be happy in this life, no matter if it's a holiday or not.
So the very next time you feel lonely, depressed, left out or whatever, do yourself a favor and go within. Find a tool that will help you learn how to harness the power of your ego.
A great book is the POWER OF NOW by author Eckhart Tolle. Living in the now moment requires patience, practice and self forgiveness. Until you can get a copy of that book, do yourself a favor the next time you're feeling bad or not just feeling good.
Visit any hospital or nursing home. At least you'll see others who have it far worse than you do. Remember, your ego will remind you that it's not that bad. I promise you, it's really not that bad. It's all in your thinking. Change your thoughts, you automatically change your way of being.
Now remind the ego just how blessed you are, as you leave the nursing home, hospital or cementary. Stay in the NOW MOMENT!
You'll be glad you did!
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When readers send me something like this, I can't help but to share it! Enjoy!
Subject:FW: WOMAN!!
Woman has Man in it;
She has He in it;
MEN tal illness
MEN strual cramps
MEN tal breakdown
MEN opause
GUY necologist
AND ..
When we have REAL trouble, it's a
HIS terectomy .
Ever notice how all of women's problems start with MEN ?
Send this to all the women you know to brighten their day.
Send this to all the men just to annoy them
Gas - A Little Help,
from Ray Robin, Azar
I don't know what you people are paying for gasoline.... but here in California we are also paying higher, up to $3.50 per gallon. But my line of work is in petroleum for about 31 years now, so here are some tricks to get more of your money's worth for every gallon.. Here at the Kinder Morgan Pipeline where I work in San Jose , CAwe deliver about 4 million gallons in a 24-hour period thru the pipeline. One day is diesel the next day is jet fuel, and gasoline, regular and premium grades. We have 34- storage tanks here with a total capacity of 16,800,000 gallons.
1. Only buy or fill up your car or truck in the early morning when the ground temperature is still cold. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground. The colder the ground the more dense the gasoline, when it gets warmer gasoline expands, so buying in the afternoon or in the evening.... your gallon is not exactly a gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and the temperature of the gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products plays an A 1-degreerise in temperature is a big deal for this business. But the service stations do not have temperature compensation at the pumps.
One of the most important tips is to fill up when your gas tank is HALF FULL or HALF EMPTY. The reason for this is, the more gas you have in your tank the less air occupying its empty space. Gasoline evaporates faster than you can imagine. Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating roof. This roof serves as zero clearance between the gas and the atmosphere, so it minimizes the evaporation. Unlike service stations, here where I work, every truck that we load is temperature compensated so that every gallon is actually the exact amount.
4. Another reminder, if there is a gasoline truck pumping into the storage tanks when you stop to buy gas, DO NOT fill up--most likely the gasoline is being stirred up as the gas is being delivered, and you might pick up some of the dirt that normally settles on the bottom. Hope this will help you get the most value for your money. important role.
2. When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to a fast mode. If you look you will see that the trigger has three (3 )stages: low, middle, and high. In slow mode you should be pumping on low speed, thereby minimizing the vapors that are created while you are pumping. All hoses at the pump have a vapor return. If you are pumping on the fast rate, some other liquid that goes to your tank becomes vapor. Those vapors are being sucked up and back into the underground storage tank so you're getting less worth for your money.
3.
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A Mother’s Love
A Mother's Love;
Like the Heavens above.
She cradles you tight;
Throughout the night.
She watches you grow;
Never wanting to let go.
She holds your hand Tight, lovingly, grand;
She tells you things to help you learn;
To use in life later on.
She has hopes and dreams;
Of you achieving great things.
She bore you 9 months with grace;
Making sure to never lose pace.
She agonized the pain;
She fed your brain.
She released you into this world;
Oh what a beautiful baby boy, baby girl.
She loved you inside and out;
You are her child, there is no doubt.
She believes in you before you are here;
She rejoices with happy tears.
She disciplines you to make you strong;
She corrects you every time you are wrong.
She agrees with you when you are right;
She holds you when she hugs you with all her might.
She assures you that it’ll all be okay;
She kisses you and awaits the next day.
She fusses at you when you've made her mad;
She smiles at you when you've made her glad.
A Mother's Love is an Eternal Inspiration;
She gives you your ultimate Motivation.
A Mother's Love will always be true;
Your Mother's Love is forever instilled in YOU.
Written By ~ Yolanda Jackson
Copyright © 2007– Poems That Flow for Your Mind and Your Soul, All Rights Reserved.
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When was the last time you worried?
Ok, lets' be honest, you're probably concerned about something now, aren't you? Sure, we all are. That's just the way it is, right?
If you've been following author Eckhart Tolle's book, A New Earth, or watching the webcast with Oprah, then I'm sure you heard him speak on the subject of worry.
In my very first book, The Passion Principles: Pathways to Puropse, Power & Profit!, I wrote my version of worry, which is WORRI:
W - wasted
O - opportunity to
R - release and
R - reorganize your
I - imagination
After listening to Eckhart, it confirms my thoughts about the power of the imagination. We often think the worst is GOING to happen. Not living in the NOW MOMENT!
Worry is a FUTURE EVENT.
I simply love the quote Echart uses when he says, "Worry pretends to be necessary. Worry is of the ego. Living in the NOW moment is the door of the ego.
The ego NEVER gets enough. (I guess that's why so many people are shop-a-holics!) Never get enough? That can be dangerous. Lethal.
If the ego never gets enough, then how do we keep our sanity, and not go broke? Practicing living in the moment is key. Practicing the power of NOW. How hard is that? Very challenging. Try living in the present moment when your mind starts wandering. The phrase I use to committee in my head is simple. I simply repeat this phrase: Stay here, so you don't have to go there.
If you try repeating this to yourself when your mind wants to wonder, see what happens. It really does you no good to worry, so you may as well learn a technique or phrase that works for you. Now that you know mine, what will yours be? (Hopefully you can stay in the NOW MOMENT, BE PRESENT, long enough to think of one.) To help you in the struggle, do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of The Power of NOW, by author Eckhart Tolle.
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There is so much drama and chaos happening in Chicago, it's heartbreaking. Children are being assassinated in their own neighborhoods. This nonsense must cease. In honor of the injured and deceased, today's inspiration comes from a Chicago Poet, Yolanda Jackson. Enjoy!
Make It Stop!
Can someone tell us what is wrong
In our own neighborhoods is a war zone
People being murdered by the hour
Sisters, brothers, mothers and fathers
Why is this world so very cruel
Why are people acting like fools
Have you been hurt and disappointed so much
That your only solution is a trigger touch
What have you done to make your life right
What have you done to put up a fight
I want to know how your mind thinks
Because right now, things are on the brinks
You get mad so you kill another
You just don't give a damn so you kill a brother
You have no remorse, no sorrow in your heart
You don't care you are tearing families apart
So that's what you think about that
Why not send you over to Iraq
Since you have a trigger finger, go get on the front line of the enemy
Then you tell me
That you are not afraid and you don't care
Lets just ship you all out over there
Fight a war that is overseas
Stop killing our kids out on the streets
You think a gun makes you a man
Obviously you just don't understand
You walk around thinking you're big and bad
Pulling out a gun just because you get mad
Getting jealous of your boys
Thinking guns are toys
Point, click, BANG!
This Sh** is INSANE!
What will it take for you to realize
That you're killing off prize by prize
The next President, Entrepreneur, Doctor, Lawyer, Artist, Entertainer
Wiping out generations like an eraser
Every night watching the first 20 minutes of the news
Hearing more killings and deaths, just gives you the blues
What gives you the right to kill, to take someone's life
And justify it by saying you were right
Now you still walk around on this earth
Possibly even contributing to a birth
And yet you still keep a gun at hand
Waiting to kill the next woman or man <