Patrick Swayze

Dirty Dancing Co-Stars

During an early morning rehearsal for the iconic lift scene in “Dirty Dancing” (1987), Jennifer Grey froze. The barn was cold, the pressure was intense, and the entire crew stood waiting. Grey’s anxiety, which had been quietly mounting for days, finally spilled over. With her arms folded tightly across her chest and her eyes brimming with tears, she whispered that she couldn’t do it. Her voice trembled. Her legs felt weak. She turned away, hiding her face, overwhelmed by fear that she wouldn’t be able to live up to the moment.
Patrick Swayze, already in place, stepped out of the spotlight and walked straight to her. He didn’t signal for a break or retreat behind the scenes. Instead, he slowly knelt down beside her, placed a firm but gentle hand on hers, and looked up into her face with the steady calm of someone deeply present. “I’m not leaving you,” he told her, his voice low but sure. “We’re in this together. We’re going to do this one breath at a time.”
For a moment, everything else on set, the camera equipment, the lights, the expectations, faded away. The crew stood still. No one moved. Swayze, still holding her hand, encouraged her to breathe slowly with him. Inhale. Exhale. He matched her rhythm, grounding her, giving her space to fall apart and rebuild in front of him. His patience was quiet and unwavering. There was no rush. No embarrassment. Only presence.
Jennifer Grey had been worried their onscreen chemistry wouldn’t feel real. Off camera, their relationship had been strained. But in that moment, Swayze didn’t let any past tension cloud his compassion. He didn’t try to coach her through it with technical advice. He offered something far more rare in the high-stakes, fast-paced world of movie-making, emotional safety.
A crew member later said it was like watching someone protect a delicate flame from the wind. “He didn’t just calm her down,” they recalled. “He created a space where she could stop doubting herself.” That morning, they didn’t rehearse for hours. They rehearsed for moments. And Patrick stayed with her through each one.
When she finally nodded that she was ready to try again, he didn’t spring into action. He helped her rise to her feet slowly, as if returning her strength in stages. The next attempt wasn’t perfect, but it didn’t need to be. What mattered was that she felt safe enough to try, and that trust changed everything between them. The iconic lift, which later became one of the most celebrated scenes in movie history, was built not just on choreography but on the bond forged in that barn.
Swayze, trained in dance and martial arts, had a reputation for discipline. But that day, what stood out wasn’t his precision, it was his patience. His ability to recognize fear in someone else and respond not with frustration, but with gentleness. He knew what anxiety looked like. He had dealt with his own insecurities in the past, and he understood how isolating those moments could feel on a set filled with pressure and watchful eyes.
Later, Jennifer would speak in interviews about the emotional turbulence during filming, but she always remembered that particular moment. Not for its drama, but for the kindness it revealed in her co-star. Patrick didn’t need to say much. What he did was far louder than any words, he stayed.
That lift became more than a performance. It became a symbol of trust, of vulnerability met with care, and of what can happen when someone chooses to respond to another’s fear with quiet strength.
Patrick Swayze’s humanity lived not in his fame or talent, but in how he held space for someone else to find their courage.

Fear Of The Landlord

Fear Of The Landlord

Worrying about the rent is not a modern problem—one Roman’s fear of his landlord was found scratched onto a wall nearly 2,000 years ago.
His name was Ancarenus Nothus, and he was an ordinary person living in a crowded Roman apartment building, known as an insula, sometime between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD.
Like many people today, he seems to have had anxiety about making ends meet. Historians, like Mary Beard, have highlighted his story from a piece of graffiti he left behind, which expressed his dread of the rent collector coming around.
It’s a powerful reminder that history isn’t just about emperors and great battles. It’s also about the everyday struggles of normal people.
Ancarenus was far from the only one leaving messages on walls. The walls of Roman cities like Pompeii and Herculaneum were covered in thousands of pieces of graffiti.
People wrote everything you could imagine: jokes, love poems, shopping lists, and insults. It was the social media of the ancient world.
These inscriptions weren’t just made by the poor. Archaeologists have found graffiti in the homes of the wealthy as well, showing it was a common practice across all social classes.
These small, personal messages, preserved by chance through the centuries, give us an incredible window into the real, unfiltered lives of people in the ancient world.
Sources: Mary Beard Documentary Meet the Romans, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, Antigone Journal

Hot Air Propaganda – Targeting the Uninformed

Hot Air Propaganda - Targeting the Uninformed

Malcolm Roberts writes:
A lie collapses slowly, then all at once.

Climate Change is a scam, a fundraiser for large corporations using the nobility paradox to get away with increasingly harmful policies that damage our economy and take away abundance and opportunity for all.

24 years ago today, the great Thomas Sowell nailed this one: Global warming propaganda is targeted at the uninformed.

Quote of the Day

“Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.”  – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Writer (1749 – 1832)

Hand Powered Flashlight

Hand Powered Flashlight

At just 14 years old, Ann Makosinski harnessed the warmth of her own hand to create a flashlight that needs no batteries.

Her inspiration came from a friend in the Philippines who told her she couldn’t study at night and was failing in school because her family had no electricity for light.

Ann wanted to find a way to help. She knew she could capture energy from many sources, including the heat from a human body.

She looked into Peltier tiles, which produce an electric charge when one side of the tile is heated and the other is cooled.

Ann realized that the heat from a person’s hand on one side, and the ambient air cooling the other, could generate enough power for an LED light.

Using this principle, she designed the Hollow Flashlight. The design allows air to flow through the device, keeping the outside cool while the inside is warmed by the user’s hand.

In 2013, at age 15, her invention won her top prize for her age group at the Google Science Fair.

Her simple, yet brilliant, device showed a new path for sustainable, off-grid energy solutions.

Empirical Data Proves Vaccinations Harm The Body Overall

Dr Paul Thomas

Vaxxed vs Unvaxxed Stats

He proved unvaccinated kids were healthier. They revoked his license.

Dr. Paul Thomas studied 3,324 children and found unvaccinated kids had FEWER doctor visits and BETTER health outcomes. Here’s what his data showed:

Fever – 9.1× higher in vaccinated
Ear Pain – 3.4× higher
Otitis Media (Ear Infections) – 2.9× higher
Conjunctivitis – 2.4× higher
Eye Disorders (Other) – 1.8× higher
Asthma – 5.2× higher
Allergic Rhinitis (Hay Fever) – 6.9× higher
Sinusitis – 4.3× higher
Breathing Issues – 2.9× higher
Anemia – 5.5× higher
Eczema – 4.5× higher
Urticaria (Hives) – 2.1× higher
Dermatitis – 1.4× higher
Behavioral Issues – 4.1× higher
Gastroenteritis – 4.7× higher
Weight/Eating Disorders – 2.5× higher
ADHD – 0 cases in unvaccinated group
*Data based on how often children visited the doctor for each condition*

Instead of investigating the findings, the Oregon Medical Board suspended Dr. Thomas’s license—just days after the study was published. Months later, the study was retracted.

Dr. Paul Thomas isn’t the only one who faced swift punishment for publishing inconvenient science. Other doctors have faced similar consequences for exposing the same pattern. The question is: Why are doctors being punished simply for comparing vaccinated and unvaccinated kids?

The information in this thread comes from the work of medical researcher @MidwesternDoc

For all the sources and details, read the full 20,000-word report at:

https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-much-damage-has-mass-vaccination

Pacific Island Growth – No Rising Sea Level Here!

Jeh Island

Bookmark this: the next time a climate alarmist claims Pacific Islands are sinking under rising sea levels, blaming CO2 and urging us to subsidize solar panels & wind turbines, abandon petrol & diesel cars, and eat ze bugs, show them this 1943 WWII aerial photograph of Jeh in the Marshall Islands alongside a current Google Maps image. However don’t be surprised if the climate alarmist rejects the evidence before their eyes and ears, as that’s how they’ve been programmed.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GL088752