Attention: Will the line for those exasperated by politically correct mumbo-jumbo please form down the middle! This morning's newspaper headline, "Alleged 'unstable' man ends hijacking" mademe crazy! Let's go ahead and call folk who play around with blowing up planes--for real or pretend--unstable,okay?? Own it, people!
Principle in the type: "The mostcourageous act is
still to think for yourself.Aloud." Coco Chanel
Alright everybody. Let's just pull ourselves together. If a chocolate Easter egg was developed to be called a chocolate Easter egg, it can be called a chocolate Easter egg. "Chocolate manufacturers in the U.K. have removed the word "Easter" from the holiday egg candy . . . " (Cadbury -- we're talking to you!) Yellow can be yellow, Easter can be Easter, the desert can be the desert, Passover can be Passover, veils can be veils, and so on and so on. news
Principle in the type: "Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that
space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and
our freedom.” Viktor E. Frank
The funny side of politics? Oh Please!! It's a nightmare right now! .... wait a second. Here's something that might make you chuckle. Take a load off from the presidential race, and enjoy:
(And below? A little theory on opposites, and competition.)
Principle in the type: "Various schools of thought about forest management have
been followed through the years . . . a test plot was selected for a practice
known as release thinning.Foresters identified what they felt were
potentially the largest and healthiest young trees in the test plot, and then
they cut and pruned out the less-promising trees and the competing
undergrowth.The supposition was that by
removing much of the competition for water, sunlight, and soil nutrients, the
chosen trees would be released to
grow and develop in extraordinary ways. . . . After some years it became
obvious that just the opposite was occurring.Once freed from competition, the chosen trees became complacent.Instead of stretching upward toward the
light, they slowed their vertical growth, put out many lower limbs that
eventually became useless when the canopy closed, and became fatter.None of the trees in the test plot compared
in size or vitality to the trees that had to compete and overcome opposition in
order to survive and thrive."Marlin K. Jensen
Model and body-activist Ashley Graham has become the first plus-size Sports Illustrated cover model. Though "she'd rather we do away with the" plus-size category altogether. "It's a pretty big deal," that she models on both the cover, and the inside of the magazine spread. Beauty comes in all sizes. Or better yet, beauty knows no size. story
Principle in the type: "[We are] becoming so concerned about having perfect
figures, or straight A’s, or professional status, or even absolute motherly
success that we are being torn from our true selves. We often worry so much
about pleasing and performing for others that we lose our own uniqueness, that
full and relaxed acceptance of ourselves as a person of worth and individuality.”Patricia Holland
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