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Monthly Archives: November 2014
A New Way to Look at Stress
My sister found this on Ted Talks. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal has a new take on Stress and what it can do in our lives, in a positive manner.
Just watching it gave me a new perspective, and new goals in dealing with the frankly large amount of stress I deal with, and have been dealing with for years.
I hope this will be as enlightening to you as it was to me.
Versatile Blogger Award
Thank you to the lovely Megan Elizabeth for nominating me for the Versatile Blogger Award. I’m just getting to know this lovely addition to my WordPress Family, and I’m looking very much forward to learning more and continuing to read her excellent blog!
“When you consider nominating a fellow blogger for the Versatile Blogger Award, consider the quality of the writing, the uniqueness of the subjects covered, the level of love displayed in the words on the virtual page. Or, of course, the quality of the photographs and the level of love displayed in the taking of them. Honor those bloggers who bring something special to your life whether every day or only now and then!”
Here’s the rules:
If you are nominated, you’ve been awarded the Versatile Blogger award.
- Thank the person who gave you this award. That’s common courtesy.
- Include a link to their blog. That’s also common courtesy — if you can figure out how to do it.
- Next, select 15 blogs/bloggers that you’ve recently discovered or follow regularly. ( I would add, pick blogs or bloggers that are excellent!)
- Nominate those 15 bloggers for the Versatile Blogger Award — you might include a link to this site.
- Finally, tell the person who nominated you 7 things about yourself.
About me:
- My sister says I have to tell you I am impatient.
- Sometimes, though, I can be very patient.
- I am full of dichotomies (that’s what my late husband always said)
- I love to read historical fictions, women’s journals and diaries, and poetry
- My favorite color is fire-engine red
- My favorite sound is the sound of a child laughing
- My favorite smell are autumn smells of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, apples, zucchini, squash — all cooking in my kitchen
My nominations are:
Visual Trip Across America
Why am I taking you on a visual trip of America? Because I want you to remember all we have here. This is our America.
These pictures are symbols of what we vote for. We vote because we have the right to vote and have since the Founding Fathers. We have the duty to each other and to America to speak up and let government officials know how we feel. We must vote, or everyone that has died fighting for our country and way of life will have died in vain. Even if you are not happy with our present government and if you see racism and sexism and judgmentalism as black marks against us, go out and vote. Just go. Send your message, send your thoughts, send a message of what must change. Send a message that is representative of your voice. It is ELECTION DAY. Go to the polls and vote. It is not too much to ask.
Smokey Mountains Photographed and copyrighted by Barbara Mattio 2013
To Majestic Mountains Photographed and copyrighted by Barbara Mattio 2012
My flowers in glorious bloom. Photographed and copyrighted by Barbara Mattio 2012
To your own home Photographed and copyrighted by Barbara Mattio 1013
To country roads Photographed and copyrighted by Barbara Mattio 2013
To butterflies. Photographed and copyrighted by Barbara Mattio 2007
To lakes Photographed and copyrighted by Barbara Mattio 2011
And oceans and islands Photographed and copyrighted by Barbara Mattio 2012
Carolyn’s Tipz – Oppression
Oppression (Listen while you read)
Don’t lean to oppression, my friends; else it have its sorry way with you.
Don’t lean to oppression, my friends; it will cause you much harm.
It will take away your soul, your love. Indeed it will take away your life.
For what is oppression but a double edged sword.
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It shall rip you shreds to shreds. It will do with you as it will.
It has no fear of consequences, only its lust and needs to fulfil.
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Yes, my dear friends; oppression has, at its heart, one desire only; that is to fulfil its own desires, with no thought for you.
I hope you look after you; I hope you see through oppression. I hope you can tear yourself away, should oppression have its hold.
Carolyn Page ABC of Spirit Talk
Image Credit: swprod / Shutterstock.com
Election Eve
Hello to all of my readers. Do you know what today is? It is Election Eve. I know (for those in America anyway ) you are over all of the ads. Even worse the dirty commercials. Could that person have possibility have done that? What do I really think? My husband doesn’t agree with who I want to be our Governor. My best friend says I am completely wrong in my ideas. My kids think I don’t understand politics. Maybe I should just skip voting. It is supposed to rain tomorrow. I have several things I can do at the house. What should I do? Should I vote?
Ladies, this is an important election for us. Yes, there is a war on women. The GOP want us back in the home and they want us more restricted than we are now. Does that sound familiar? Perhaps you have heard it on the news from the Middle East. There are so many issues at stake, so many programs to help people that hang in the balance. The condition of our society depends on everyone voting. Our children’s education, your parents’ ability to receive good medical care, the ability to feed our children and keep a roof over their heads. We need to remember that Americans all live in one country. We look different but we have the same basic human needs. Despite economic conditions, if you flip burgers to support your children you are as important as the person who owns his/ her own company.
If you are an American man or woman, you have the right to vote. With that right that was granted to men by the Founding Fathers, and the feminist Suffragettes earned for us, comes a responsibility to use it. If you don’t vote you have no right to whine, complain, grouse or say negative things about who is elected. If you vote, then you can always say what you feel. It is your right. I have met many people who love to tell whoever will listen what is wrong with government. Inevitably, I ask if they voted. 90% of the time they have not.
You can research candidates with the League of Women Voters and in your local newspapers. It takes time, but not that much when you consider what is at stake. Take your state ID or Driver’s License with you in case you need to prove who you are. Don’t let poll workers prevent you from voting. It is your right and your vote is needed. Of all the democracies in the world, we have the lowest percentage of voter turnout. Right now, there are people who would give anything to have the right to vote.
Your vote is your voice. Your vote is your message to our leaders of what you want and it is really the only way they will hear you. So vote and let them know what you want. Let them know what you think America needs. VOTE!
A very good question.
The Suffragettes earned us the right to vote.
Get out and Vote tomorrow. You can make a difference.
One Lovely Blog
Thank you to LifeCoachWriter for nominating me for this lovely award the One Lovely Blog Award
The rules for this award are a follows:
7 Things about Me:
- I am a Taurus
- I love to grow flowers, especially roses and irises
- Faeries live in my flower garden
- I truly HATE winter
- I hope by next winter to live in the south
- I love peaches, red delicious apple, raspberries, watermelon, cantaloupe and mango
- I love to cook and eat artichokes
My nominations are:
- insaneowl
- Xena
- Graleview
- Inavukic
- Dr. Rex
- Petite Magique
- WillowDot21
- The Poetry Channel
- A Thursdays Child
- Ms Vee
- Elkat
- IrinaDim
- Gigi
- Marktoner1
- Sue Dreamwalker
Silence! We are Voting.
From the University of San Francisco (http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/hancock/pol204/history.htm)
1787
The passage of the U.S. Constitution giving white male property owners age 21 and over the right to vote.
1807 – 1843
Series of acts that changed voting requirments so that all white men 21 and older could vote.
1870
The 15th Amendment guaranteed the right to vote to all men that were 21 or older regardless of race or ethnic background.
1920
The 19th Amendment gave women age 21 and older the right to vote.
1964
The 24th Amendment made it illegal for states to charge poll tax to voters.
1965
The Voting Rights Act authorized the federal government to take over registration of voters in areas where state officials had regularly prevented blacks and other minorities from registering to vote or cast their ballots through usage of literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and intimidation tactics. This Act enforced provisions previously guaranteed in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments almost a century earlier.
1971
The 26th Amendment lowered the voting age across the nation to 18.
1982
The Voting Rights Act Amendments extended right to vote guarantees given in the 1965 legislation. Further provisions for Americans with disabilities, voters not able to read and write, and those not fluent in English were added to insure their freedoms.
1993
The National Voter Registration Act (Motor Voter) expanded the opportunity for convenient voter registration for every person of voting age by increasing the number of active government agencies serving as registries. The departments of Safety, Health, human Services, Mental Health and Retardation, and Veteran’s Affairs are required to include voter registration applications with their own department’s forms. Other government offices such as libraries, post offices, county clerk offices, and the Registrar of Deeds will also have voter forms available to the public.
1994
The Tennessee Early Voting Act replaced the previous absentee voting system used for the state. Tennesseans now have a period of 15 days in which to vote early before the actual election day without declaring a reason for this early casting of votes. Voters using this opportunity may vote at their county election office or any one of its satellite locations in that county during their posted hours of operation.
Vote and we become stronger and if you stay home and don’t vote, the rich hold us and our children and grandchildren captive.Tuesday is election day. Get out and vote. It is the right and responsible thing to do.
From the ACLU (https://www.aclu.org/timeline-history-voting-rights-act)
Tuesday is Election Day!
VOTE! Be heard.Each American needs to vote on Tuesday! It is your right and responsibility
For my contemporaries
It’s Saturday Night, the holiday is over, and I thought I would just take us back in time a few years, to when life was very different than it is now.
We were different, too. We were more innocent. For many of us, music filled our lives.
Here’s some of the music that filled mine, and whether you liked it or not, yours. I wasn’t a teenager then, but I was in my twenties, and oh, would I dance…
And I’m glad I did.
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