Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge.
The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child. The winner was:
A four-year-old child, whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman, who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy
went into the old Gentleman’s’ yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.
When his mother asked him what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy just said, ‘Nothing, I just helped him cry.’
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Teacher Debbie Moon’s first graders were discussing a picture of a family.
One little boy in the picture had a different hair color than the other members. One of her students suggested that he was adopted.
A little girl said, ‘I know all about Adoption, I was adopted..’
‘What does it mean to be adopted?’, asked another child.
‘It means’, said the girl, ‘that you grew in your mommy’s heart instead of her tummy!’
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On my way home one day,
I stopped to watch a Little League baseball game that was being played in a park near my home.
As I sat down behind the bench on the first-base line, I asked one of the boys what the score was.
‘We’re behind 14 to nothing,’ he answered with a smile.
‘Really,’ I said. ‘I have to say you don’t look very discouraged.’
‘Discouraged?’, the boy asked with a puzzled look on his face… …’Why should we be discouraged? We haven’t been up to bat yet.’
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Whenever I’m disappointed with my spot in life, I stop and think about little Jamie Scott.
Jamie was trying out for a part in the school play. His mother told me that he’d set his heart on being in it, though she feared he would not be chosen.
On the day the parts were awarded, I went with her to collect him after school.
Jamie rushed up to her, eyes shining with pride and excitement. ‘Guess what, Mom,’ he shouted, and then said those words that will remain a lesson to me… …’I’ve been chosen to clap and cheer.’
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An eye witness account from New York City, on a cold day in December, some years ago:
A little boy, about 10-years-old, was standing before a shoe store on the roadway, barefooted, peering through the window, and shivering with cold.
A lady approached the young boy and said, ‘My, but you’re in such deep thought staring in that window!’
‘I was asking God to give me a pair of shoes,’ was the boy’s reply.
The lady took him by the hand, went into the store, and asked the clerk to get half a dozen pairs of socks for the boy. She then asked if he could give her a basin of water and a towel. He quickly brought them to her.
She took the little fellow to the back part of the store and, removing her gloves, knelt down, washed his little feet, and dried them with the towel.
By this time, the clerk had returned with the socks. Placing a pair upon the boy’s feet, she purchased him a pair of shoes.
She tied up the remaining pairs of socks and gave them to him. She patted him on the head and said, ‘No doubt, you will be more comfortable now..’ As she turned to go, the astonished kid caught her by the hand, and looking up into her face, with tears in his eyes, asked her:
‘Are you God’s wife?’
Our Family Christmas Photo
Just had a spectacular Christmas with my family!
My elder daughter Teal (she’s the one immediately to my right) had a great idea that we should do a family photo.
So we did.
Not your average family photo.
More reminiscent of the Adams family than the Brady Bunch.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU!
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Free Paleo Cookbook
I received this as an email today.
I have something very exciting to share with you today…
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That’s right — as a special promotion, they’re offering their brand new Paleo fat loss cookbook to you for free (Chef Pete lost 60 lbs using these recipes!) — All you have to do is just cover a small shipping cost (international shipping is a bit more). Click this link to visit the site.
The cookbook is called Paleo Eats, and it’s filled with over 80 chef-created, insanely tasty Paleo recipes — which means they are free from gluten, soy, dairy, and refined sugar. But most importantly, they are EASY and FAST to make when you see how Pete simplifies gourmet cooking.
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Scientist who discovered that GMO’s cause tumors wins lawsuit
This was the second such court victory for the professor’s team, following a November 6 victory in a defamation lawsuit over an article in the French Marianne magazine which categorized the Séralini team research as “scientific fraud”.
http://www.sott.net/article/308623-Scientist-who-discovered-that-GMOs-cause-tumors-wins-lawsuit
Neuroscientist Shows What Fasting Does To Your Brain & Why Big Pharma Won’t Study It
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/12/11/neuroscientist-shows-what-fasting-does-to-your-brain-why-big-pharma-wont-study-it/
One book review of The Fasting Cure, referenced in the talk, says at https://books.google.com.au/books?id=bcoEAAAAYAAJ&redir_esc=y:
If the clogged up pinhead who wrote the previous review had bothered to read the book, he would know the Upton Sinclair did not recommend fasting for 50 days nor did he recommend fasting until one became a “skeleton”. Sinclair was a proponent of periodic fasting, but he himself never fasted more than 12 days at a stretch.
The book is a collection of anecdotes, and testimonials received from people who read his article on fasting which was published in Cosmopolitain back in the day. Some of those testimonials came from people who did extend their fast to 40 or 50 days, and even longer. The letters came from people who obtained tremendous relief from various ailments, some of which were more serious illnesses common at that period, like “consumption”.
I do not agree with all his recommendations on diet, especially his advice on how to end a fast. But in all fairness, he does state that his recommendations do not work for everyone, and that everyone has to discover that for themselves.
I am a big fan of fasting, and have been doing it for years. I like intermittent fasting, and am especially a fan of the once weekly 36 hour fast. I like to start mine Saturday night and end it sometime on Monday. The longest fast I have ever done was 8 days. I was planning on a 10 day fast but stopped short, not due to hunger or any negative symptoms, but because of the awkwardness of having to explain the rapid weight loss to friends and co-workers. The weight came back quickly once I broke my fast, along with improved digestion, improved fasting blood sugar levels, and a leaner more muscular physique.
Might I also suggest Brad Pilon’s book on intermittent fasting Eat Stop Eat. It is a more moderate and scientific approach to fasting. He does present scientific studies, fully referenced, which demonstrate the positive physiological changes which occur during fasts of different length.
Here’s the link to “The Fasting Cure”: http://sci.pam.szczecin.pl/~fasting/upton.pdf