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• "Stay together, friends Don’t scatter and sleep. Our friendship is made of being awake." ~ Rumi
• “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” ~ Marianne Williamson from "A Return To Love"

Hey mom, dad - can I be this guy when I grow up?

Sad. Did this guy live to tell about it? Or, will he after the next time?

Why Arizona has no Daylight Saving Time

The state of Arizona listened to the Wise Old Indian.

When told the reason for daylight saving time the old Indian said,

“Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket.”

Today’s Government section of the paper has three articles side-by-side titled as follows:

McCain says he’s been tested in crisis

Obama: McCain has ‘outdated ideology’

Palin says Obama will cause crises

I wonder what crisis we’re really talking about here?! Geez.

“They hurt so bad, aren’t they just so cute though?”

If that statement was said about a relationship, you’d be asked to call the cops!

Women and shoes. (Click on those words and find the 2008 New York Fashion Week video to further explain my thoughts here.)

Women do things men would never think (or pay) dearly to do – buy and wear high heeled shoes that hurt so badly they have to take them off and change within hours. Spend a paycheck on the same, plus some clothes and accessories that don’t always make sense and may never be worn again.

Have I ever worn too high shoes that hurt my feet? Yes, one pair in college. 3 1/2 inch block heels. I wore them a few times throughout a semester and that was it. The pain I had in the balls of my feet was too much for me to justify creating lifelong problems, for a few glances from “the guys” and the one time through “oh, cool!” remarks from some women.

A stiletto heel is named from the Latin word ”styli” or “stylus,” meaning “slender dagger.” I suppose “dagger” is perfect for the piercing, knife-like pain women feel when wearing them for only moments.

Oprah had a “shoe show” last year, and plenty of comments that followed.  She said she has pairs that she only wears out to the stage and then can’t move around in them they hurt so badly. “They are my 1/2 hour shoes. But, they look good!”

Stiletto heels can vary in length, or height, from 1 inch 8 inches or more if a platform sole is used. They are also sometimes defined as having a diameter at the ground of slightly less than half an inch.

So, you’re not only walking with your foot “ballerina on pointe,” but on a heal that cannot truly hold up your frame correctly for the best back, leg and feet health.

There are plenty of stories about those “hot” shoes years later too, but mostly about painful feet that never go away.

It’s right up there in the “what-ev-er” category I suppose. People are going to do what they’re going to do, lame as it is.

Oh, and . . . for whom do women wear make-up, stilettos, new hairdos and “fashion?” Men!

An amazing thing we do in life. Hopefully the payoff is a good one!

• Question everything.

  "The important thing is not to stop questioning." ~ Albert Einstein

• Kim Wolinski, MSW . . . . . . . . . . . "Dr. DeClutter"

  

• Raising our collective consciousness is our only hope.

  “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” ~ Albert Einstein
• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew." ~ Abraham Lincoln