PUTTING YOUR BEST FOOD FORWARD

photo by Ralph Hockens

What can I say?  I freaking love the Met Gala!   If you have an ounce of creativity or curiosity, scroll through at the link, and tell me your favorite dress 'art!'   This is breaking news.   (Bonus:  Enjoyed that Courtney Love and Francis Bean went together.  A sign their constant fighting may be fake news.)      news                 
 

Principle in the type:  "Don't let the voice of critics paralyze you - whether that voice comes from the outside or the inside."     Dieter F. Uchtdorf

GOOD SWEAT

photo by wsh1266

Listen, I get it.  I'm part hermit myself.  But the missing Richard Simmons?  What's up?   The "fitness guru, who hasn't been seen in public for three years, is fine, fine, fine," says older brother Lenny Simmons.   While rumors still swirl, what didn't change from Simmons' previous life, was his example, at teaching positive body image and good health practices.          story    

Principle in the type:  "We should regularly be highlighting all that our bodies are able to do.  Even a body with many physical limitations is able to do some wonderful things like smile, laugh, and cry."  Justin McPheters

SUPER YOU

photo by Lorie Shaull

                                    ***Happy Super Bowl, America!  Commercials included.  You're the best!!***



                                   

Principe in the type:  "Because you're the only person who decides how you feel, who you are and who you're going to be    Gina Rodriguez

GEORGIE LOVE

photo by Bambrette

Wham, and George Michael's music were straight up Pop magic.    Wake Me Up equals 80s personified.  This is for real how we looked and how we danced, all night in da'club.


George Michael once said, "I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really."   Kind of fascinating because, who can't relate?   article      




                                       
 

Principle in the type:  "Sometimes ... we find ourselves repeatedly struggling with the same difficulties.  As if we were climbing a tree-covered mountain, at times we don't see our progress until we get closer to the top and look back from the high ridges.  Don't be discouraged."   Neil L. Andersen

                                                                                                  Happy Weekend, Peeps

INNER VOICE

photo by Ernest Duffoo

Recently engaged to longtime girlfriend Kristen, The Voice winner Jordan Smith (who is not a lookalike to his The Voice coach Adam Levine), told People magazine winning was a "big confidence booster."  No doubt!  But also "the show's proven to me that what matters is on the inside.  Each week, I've proven there's a place for people like me in the industry."  An industry that sometimes centers too much on a certain look or physique.    story    

Principle in the type:  "Most people never fulfill their human promise and potential because they remain perpetually helpless children overwhelmed by a sense of inferiority. The feeling of being okay does not imply that the person has risen above all his faults and emotional problems. It merely implies that he refuses to be paralyzed by them."  Thomas Harris 

WHAT PLANET ARE YOU FROM?!

photo by Ron Cogswell

The weekend's poor performing movies, "left room for holdovers to take top spots."   Reclaiming its thrown, "The Martian" pulled in "15.9 million" in sales.   news            Maybe folks relate to feeling like they are from a different world?    

Principle in the type:  "Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.  Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.  Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different actions or adjustments will have to follow.  But any action is better than no action at all.        Norman Vincent Peale