For the last many days we’ve been living in a world with events that fill us with fear, distrust, anxiety, and all sorts of emotions that separate us from each other as we crawl into our shells seeking safety. To counter this, I want to start your week with a reminder that we’re all in this together and we’ll get through it together. To do that, we must reach out to each other. That’s what the man in this video does. It makes me want to reach out and hug each of you and everyone else I meet.
I’d forgotten the beauty in many Disney films. I was reminded by this short video from “Pocahontas.” It seems appropriate for one of my Sensible Saturdays. Enjoy…and take it to heart.
Would you choose to live with elderly people, many sick and dying, if you were a college student? How about if you lived there rent-free? How would the residents react? This is a Dutch experiment that is so successful it’s being tried elsewhere. It’s an interesting mix of generations living together for mutual benefit. Considering how poorly treated (and ignored) so many elderly Americanism are, I’d like to see this Humanitas program widespread in our country.
For a 2 1/2 minute overview, view this video.
For a more in-depth look, go to “My 93-Year-Old Flatmate.”
I just HAD to share this one with you (thanks to Jim Knudsen for sending it to me). It’s our National Anthem, but presented in a new, impressive, imaginative, “wow” way.
If you don’t make it to the end of the 1:40 minutes, you’re really missing out!
My friend, age late 40s, is just a weakling. Sure, he survived 4 tours in the hot spots of the Mid-East. And he has served in the Marines for 18 years while raising a family. But he’s weak because he has PTSD.
That’s what Donald Trump would call him. That’s what he intimated to a group of veterans at the Retired American Warriors PAC–that many (not all) in the group could handle the horrors of war but others weren’t strong and couldn’t handle it. In other words, anyone with PTSD is the opposite of strong, that is, weak.
Here’s what he said: ““When people come back from war and combat and they see maybe what the people in this room have seen many times over, and you’re strong and you can handle it, but a lot of people can’t handle it.”
Read more details and see a video clip at this Huffington Post article. Or if you don’t trust that paper, search the words “Trump PTSD veterans weak” to find a multitude of other sources.
Do I sound upset? No, I’m mad! My friend and countless others who serve our country have to be strong to do their jobs. Seeing man’s inhumanity to man on a daily basis does NOT make them weak. In fact, I think they can just not hold back their morality any longer.
Go ahead. It’s okay to be selfish. But in a special way. Some small acts can help others but also result in physical and emotional benefits to you. Watch this short video and find out how.
Have you ever watched a harvest moon rising? Do you even know what it is? You just missed it by a few days, Sept. 22. But you can see short a video of one, with an explanation of what it is, at http://my.xfinity.com/video/harvest-moon-rises-in-time-lapse-video/767937603948/Comcast/TopVideoClips.
It’s really spectacular!
There are two sides to every story. No, I’m not talking about the non-documented people to be deported, or even their families. I’m talking about our everyday lives resulting from those deportations–the selfish side that so greatly affects our own lives.
This short video gives us something to think about:
https://www.facebook.com/ATTNVideo/videos/1592271161077839/
Congratulations to all those on the Solar Impulse project, and congratulations to our making a giant step toward saving our home planet.
(I love the fact that one of the pilots and a driving force behind the project is named “Piccard,” as in Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise. Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg truly have “gone where no man has gone before.”)
Watch the video of the landing below or at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7jnzzx5y1c.
People are getting hooked. They watch these Alaskan bears at Brooks Falls for awhile, then keep coming back. This is a live cam from the Katmai National Park in Alaska. The bears seem never to tire of being bear-ish, which makes them fascinating to watch. Take a look: