The psychologist and philosopher C.G. Jung (1875-1961), reminds us:
“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”
If you are looking for happiness you must to know the taste of sadness. When you know sadness you will appreciate happiness as it comes your way.
The lesson is: when you know what you do not want, you may know what you do want.
Therefore: only when you what you want you will attract it.
A BOOK SIGNING BY AUTHOR IN 4 STATES AT THE SAME MOMENT IN TIME
This was a first ever event.
It remains so far the first ever book signing under these circumstances.
So who cares? I care. Obviously.
You care, if you read this post.
The added-value of book-signing by the author is three-fold:
The reader and author form a personal relationship. The author provides a personalized dedication.
A book signed by its author has greater market value than the list price.
The site of the book-signing may have a special significance.
I have signed my book,
“The Vision of HabakkuK. The Law of Attraction in the Holy Bible”
on the geographic spot known as Four Corners USA. This geographic site is where 4 U. S. States contact each other. The States are Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.
This geographic point is not within the domain of any State. When you stand on this point you are extant in all four States at the same moment in time.
I am the first author to do a book signing in this unique location. It was August 29, 2011. There were some logistic barriers that we had to overcome. I did not go there by myself. I had the help of friends who were also witnesses to this “first”.
You can find more about this event on the book’s website:
The anarchists tried and succeeded in being arrested this last Monday, May 14. They wanted to protest against NATO and for social justice. So they went to demonstrate inside Obama’s election campaign office. Getting nowhere, they handed pamphlets to building employees…
Eight of them were arrested and charged with criminal trespassing… All eight preferred to be taken to jail.
So what’s their accomplishment?
Demonstrating inside the jail house?
If you want to protest against president Obama effectively, go on the first Tuesday in November and vote for his opponent… It’s a lot more effective than singing Kumbaya My Lord in the jail house…
In fact casting a ballot on election day is more democratic than trespassing private property…
Like it’s not more useful for a pretty girl to know how to work on a car in the middle of nowhere than if a man can. We try to lump the intricate variation of human personality into two zones, masculine and feminine. Very black or white juvenile thinking. And while these stereotypes are useful to put things in a nutshell, like most are, we should be careful how we use them. And we should use them while prefacing that the stereotypes we use are only for brevity’s sake and not because we think they encompass the variables of reality.
Each and every one of you is a beautiful human being; you are beautiful because of all the slight and perhaps large differences. You are beautiful because you could never fit into any one word blanket term stereotype anyone tries to push on you.
Get educated on self; and please, please for the sake of so many other people afraid to be themselves, be you. Be loud about it, and drag everyone with you.
Julie Paytas-Long, a mother and grandmother, is the guest author of this Mother’s Day blog:
While everyone sleeps, I look through pictures, clay figurines, a bird house, a lamp, the list goes on… and all I can feel is pure gratefulness, appreciation, and respect for my children.
So long ago but like yesterday, that God’s mercy would count me worthy of such blessings??? That all His promises are true “…..they will return to Him” as I watch His blessings being poured over their lives…..I am humbled beyond words.
They are exceptional Mom’s, spouses, sisters, friends, daughters and sons themselves and I could not be more proud. Mothers Day is such a special time for me not for myself, but for me to say thank you to God and to Heather, Heidi, Serena, Sarah, and Scott Ross. I am so very proud and honored to be your Mother. I truly believe I have the best family in the whole world!! I love you beyond breath~ ♥ ♥
— with Heather Vessely, Heidi Ellis, Serena Long, Sarah Long, Scott Ross.
On May 2, I opined here about the nature of the protesters and demonstrators attracted to the streets of Chicago during the (now aborted) G8 and NATO summits. What a dazzling world-wide, media-covered opportunity for anyone who has something to say…
Among the groups that registered to demonstrate on Friday May 18 in the streets of Chicago are nurses – The National Nurses United. The group describes itself on their website as registered nurses. The nurses plan to come to Chicago to protest in the face of the G8 summit meeting against the inequities that ail the world.
The nurses united got a problem. There is no longer a G8 summit in Chicago.
The G8 summit was moved elsewhere. Even the president of Russia will not attend the G8 summit because he has more pressing things in Moscow than hang out in Camp David MD. So this summit is reduced to a G7 summit.
But the National Nurses United members have no sick patients to take care of on a Friday. They are left with their fringe political agenda that hangs dry in Chicago. So they united up with a punk-rock guitarist, Tom Morello who seeks a platform to sell his albums… This nurses’ partner to street demonstrations is quoted in the Chicago Tribune saying: “I have to have one or two sips of (Irish whiskey) before I step on a stage with Bruce”.
Was Morello referring to a special brand of medicinal alcohol?
So much for the nursing profession’s empowerment and pride.
The following is a guest blog entry written and published by Howard Crampton Jr.
I’ve done a lot of stupid things in the past, but I’ve had a lot of fun. I live such a good life because I have no regrets as to what I’ve experienced.
I have been hurt, and have hurt others. I have forgiven, and been forgiven.
Life is about self-expression, so go out there and be yourself and be conscious of not taking away from someone else’s experience. If you do, forgive yourself and apologize.
Say “Yes!” to Life. Say “Yes!” to Self-Expression. Say “Yes!” to Experience. When you fall down, pick yourself back up and brush yourself and go out there and do it again.
You are as much a leader as you are a follower. No one person is better or more important than anyone else. See yourself in others, and be open so as others can see themselves in you.
Put yourself out there and have fun along the journey. Life is not short, it’s Forever! But our experience as being human is limited only in this dimension, and you’ll have another opportunity, and another, and another…
There is a fine line separating street protests from street anarchy.
The would be protesters in Chicago, May 19-21, 2012, are in search of a cause. During a press conference in Chicago on April 30, a would-be protester who cannot retire from his Vietnam era experience shouted at the Chicago NATO Host Committee director:
“Why are you bringing war criminals like Madeleine Albright and Condoleezza Rice to Chicago? Why are we losing our human rights”?
The shouting professor – lives in his past. He did not have the sense to cite a future or current, “threatening” event worthy of his planned protest. Both former Secretaries, Albright and Rice, are respectable public figures. They endure criticisms originated by their work in public service. But they saw accomplishments too during their term in office. One can disagree with them, however protesting today against Madeleine Albright who served as Secretary of State during 1997-2001, serves only one purpose – promoting the sales of her newly published book: “Prague Winter”.
The coalition against NATO/G8 in Chicago lost steam when the G8 meeting was taken away from it…
Hopefully this coalition will not turn into anarchists looking for a cause of protest.
Airlines and air travel remain the last frontier. Last frontier like in the wild, wild west.
On 1-22-12, I bought an early bird roundtrip ticket on United from MBS to ORD, in anticipation of the third weekend in May, for the summits in Chicago. Sure enough the airfare was twice more expensive for this long weekend than the prevailing fares in January for other travel dates. No matter that at the time I was the only passanger on the flights…
Now we are informed that O’Hare airport will idle an undisclosed number of runways for the arrivals and departures of VIP planes. Think of it – NATO consists of 28 member countries. Lots of VIPs coming and going with entourages and their press corps…
How about spreading the pain of incnvenient air-travel to Midway airport by utilizing its runways more intensively? Regional flights can be diverted temporarily to MDW.
Where are the federal and local aviation and transportation planners?
Mandy Lender 