CONSTITUTIONALLY

photo by angela n.

Why did Presidential Inaugurations move from March 4th to January 20th, you ask?  It's a lame reason.  No, really.  Lame.  In 1933 Congress passed the 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, nicknamed, the "Lame Duck Amendment."  It was "crafted to cut down the time 'lame duck' lawmakers," those that lost re-election, "held office following Election Day."    story           

Principle in the type:  "I am introducing a new idea.  Try to care less.  Practice ambivalence.  Learn to let go of wanting it.  Treat your career like a bad boyfriend.  Here's the thing.  Your career won't take care of you.  It won't call you back or introduce you to its parents.  Your career will openly flirt with other people while you are around.  It will forget your birthday and wreck your car.  Your career will blow you off if you call it too much. . . . Your career will never marry you."    Amy Poehler

ALL A TWITTER

photo by Ester Vargas

I can tell you this:  On Twitter Katy Perry is number one.  But on Instagram Selena Gomez is king.   Taylor Swift you ask?  No. 3 on Twitter, with only 72.8 million followers.  What's a girl to do?   President Obama Tweets behind her at No. 4 in followers, and ... Well I could go on.   Just know that yes, Bieber and Rihanna, are heavy in the mix also.  Me, I'm in a race for 1,628,999 place on Instagram.  I'm keepin' it real.  

Principle in the type:  "We're spread.  We have so many more opportunities to connect with people, and yet --  to connect deeply and vertically and all the layers of things that take time and focus and shutting off everything, --the tv [your texting, your typing] .... there's so much competition for eyeballs --but really, there's so much competition for your soul.  Where do you connect?  Where do you put your feeling, and your love, and your need and your yearning and all that?   It isn't satisfied--no matter how far you go--in that wide network. ... you have to go deep for it."         Meryl Streep   

FOREST FOR THE TREES

photo by Carla Cometto

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    

                                                                  Happy Easter Weekend, Lovies!  I'm a Believer!

POPE MOBILE

photo by CT M

For his first ever visit to the States, "Pope Francis . . . chose to ride in a tiny Fiat 500. . . . "  Surrounded by bigger security vehicles (which I am sure are necessary) and President Obama's own gigantic ride that dwarfed the Pope's wheels, "there was no fancy limousine," for him.  news           Modest is hottest?

Principle in the type:  "Being humble means recognizing we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others."    Gordon B. Hinckley