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Hope, courage and strength
Our hearts all yearn for a better tomorrow, but hope is not simply wishful thinking. Hope is ‘confident expectation in a change in direction’.
Sherwin Nuland, is a surgeon, author and inspirational speaker. In this TED Talks presentation he mentions that the Oxford English Dictionary lists 14 definitions of hope but none truly hit the mark. Nuland speaks of moral imagination and the world as a patient in its original sense. We are the healers of the world through compassion, commitment, and persistence. Source
Are your cosmetics hazardous to your health?
We live in youth obsessed society and the vast array of cosmetics available to us are evidence of our determination to pursue and project a youthful external image to the grave. Pervasive and persuasive advertising cosmetics industry campaigns have created a highly lucrative and growing market for anti-aging and presumed beauty creating products. There’s also cross-over marketing that targets beauty product consumers by purporting such products can do much for their health. But is that true? Continue reading
On the Beach
I’m enjoying my vacation with friends and our catching up on each others lives and sharing new experiences has been so wonderful and so exhausting. I feel like I’m asleep on my feet or living a dream right now. We have developed an pattern of relaxing on the beach early in the mornings and late in the evenings. Our conversation topics have ranged from the intensely personal realm to politics. We have exchanged opinions on everything from off shore oil drilling and oil tanker traffic to reciting spoken word poetry.
Last Saturday night I had the experience of reading a poem written by my friend to a small gathering. I knew I did a good job of it because when it ended my audience was so engaged that there was a delicious 2 minutes of silence before the applause. I can’t post my friend’s poetry as it’s yet to be released officially, but I can tell you we both admire Mindy Nettifee’s poetry. Here’s one of her pieces for you to enjoy.
Love Poem to Long Beach
“When award-winning Long Beach poet Mindy Nettifee speaks … you’re powerless—you have no choice but to raise your wine glass high over your osmosis head and join her pledge of allegiance to graphic truth. Her poems have the grace of cursive letters and the guts of a truck driver.”
-District Weekly
