MY SWEET

photo by aka Tman

Feelin' some good vibes today.  How 'bout you?  Perfect time to take a break from the news, and thank the great above.   Happy weekend, Peeps!


                                   

Principles in the type:  "Should we not cherish the light posts [God] has given that guide us through the darkness and the trials of mortality?"    Dieter F. Uchtdorf    

TALENT'Y

photo by IImicrofono Oggiono

Ah, you know, these guys are just cute.  If it's a set-up or not, I don't know.  But I'm a sucker for some of these Got Talent, clips.  I still cry at  Susan Boyle, I Dreamed A Dream.    What?  You thought I had a heart of stone?  I don't!


                                   

Principle in the type:  "The constant water balloon volleys from the sidelines may occasionally get you wet, but they need never, never extinguish your burning fire."      Neil L. Andersen

                                                                                         Happy Weekend, Peeps!

FINISH LINES

photo by breakmake

Kenya's Elisha Barno won the men's L.A. Marathon yesterday, with an expert time of 2:11:51.   At less than 3 miles to finish, when lead runner Daniel Limo began to pull ahead Barno told himself 'Let him go.'   However, Barno's heart told him different, and he battled back to win.   " 'There was a lot of pain, but I had to stay patient and I had to keep pushing,' Bruno said."     news  

Principle in the type:  "It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is the greatest need for having a fixed goal, for having an air castle that the outside world cannot wreck.  When few comforts come from without, it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw from within.  And the man or woman who has a star toward which to press cannot be thrown off the course, no matter how the world may try, no matter how far things seem to be wrong.”     B.C. Forbes  

ON POINTE

This old news (not fake), remains a great story.   Happy weekend, you rascals!



                        

Principle in the type:  [God] knows who we are, where we are, and what our mission is, and what we need in order to accomplish that mission."    Sheri L. Dew

DIRECTION

photo by Bill Jacobus

I gotta tell you.  I'm okay with humans still driving their vehicles.  Ohio's toll road may see self-driving cars next year.  "Not necessarily driverless...but with someone in the driver's seat whose role is to primarily make sure the vehicle's guidance system" is on task.  Testing begins in months.  I'm reading about a thousand details that need yet perfecting.  (If there is such a thing as perfecting those thousand details.)   Call me, Not On Board.     news

Principle in the type:  "Not all those who wander are lost."   Tolkien

BEARLY

photo by Dazeys supply

Oh My Gosh I have so many videos in queue Always for your entertainment!  What's a blogger to do?   Well this weekend, I'm pairing Wednesday's "black bear" wandering into a "La Canada Flintridge," California "neighborhood and"  cooling  "off in a swimming pool," with last year's same-neck-of-the-woods video of, well, you'll see.  I mean this is good stuff to us urbanites!   Big city news~        news



                                 

Principle in the type:  "If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."   Yogi Berra

                                                                                       Happy Weekend Wildlife Lovers!

COMING TO A FORK IN THE FAIRWAY

photo by Uri Tours

When the Ann Landers advice column suggested not washing one's golf balls in one's kitchen sink, hoopla erupted.  "We routinely wash fruits and vegetables in the kitchen sink, and they have dirt and chemicals on them. . . . Get over it!" said one reader.  Another, "everyone uses the ball washers at each tee or wets a towel and wipes them," not a big deal.  It went on and on from there.  The point is I think - make your reasoned decision, and do it!        story                  

Principle in the type:  "We wait and we question, we work the angles and list the pros and cons, while we move one step up and two back toward actually taking actions.  We delude ourselves that we are doing our due diligence when mostly we are just treading water in a perfectly heated pool of laziness, comfort and fear.  You can't study the map forever.  At some point it's time to start walking; there is only so much daylight."        Rob Lowe

YOUR PATH

photo by Phil Roeder

Snowstorms got you down??   East coast?  Midwest?   --Enter freakin funniest video of the last year.  (No I don't believe it's a fake!  Come on.  No Haters!)   Happy winter Peeps!   Chin up!




                                      

Principle in the type:  "If you are on the right path it will always be uphill."     Henry B. Eyring

MO

photo by Jason Weinberger

Hey, it was Mozart's birthday yesterday?  You knew?  Mozart wrote hundreds and hundreds of pieces of music.  Some pretty good stuff too.  Of course geniuses had more time on their hands back then.  They weren't endlessly watching Robot Wars, or The Kardashians.    When Mozart moved away to Vienna, it was after he'd been "fired for the third time . . . decided enough was enough," and left to be a freelancer.  Sometimes we gotta do what we gotta do.    story           

Principle in the type:  'That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality--your soul, if you will--is as bright and shining as any that has ever been.  Bright as Shakespeare's, bright as Gandhi's, bright as Mother Teresa's.   Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret, luminous place.  Believe that it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly."    George Saunders