Showing posts with label opportunities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label opportunities. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

ANGELS AMONG US





photo by Marc Cooper





Is Los Angeles 234 years old or not?   That has become the quibble historians find themselves in.  And not all historians agree on its said original name either; El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles (which means, for you gringos like me, 'the Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels').   No matter.  Angels at any year are a good thing.    story

Principle in the type:  "Each of us has more opportunities to do good and to be good than we ever use."     Spencer W. Kimball           




 








Thursday, February 11, 2016

THESPIAN TOUCHBACK






photo by Benjamin Thomas





I detect a football theme this week.  So let's continue.  

Eddie George, the Heisman Trophy winner in 1995 and eight seasons Tennessee Titan, has a new gig.  And it's on Broadway.  He is playing Billy Flynn in Broadway's production of Chicago.  For years George struggled to both find himself and re-invent himself post football, when the acting bug finally bit and fit.  “I really enjoy getting on stage, moving myself and telling a story through a character’s eyes and to deliver that in an honest way. A lot of the stuff I was going through in terms of anxiety and fear and depression and doubt (after football), I channeled all that in to the arts,” he said.      story                 


Principle in the type:  "There are signs and gifts everywhere, particularly in setbacks, but you need to keep your eyes peeled.  They come wrapped in missed opportunities, in unfulfilled promises and lost jobs.  They come born out of disappointments you never saw coming and also in those you should have.  But they bring you better things and take you to where you were meant to be. . . . Our setbacks bring us forward; we wander in the wilderness so the road can bring us home."    Rob Lowe 














Thursday, December 3, 2015

YES NOT NO





photo by Disney / ABC Television Group




Television producer, writer, actress and general bigwig Shonda Rhimes wrote a book, Year Of Yes, inspired from"her habit of saying no to 'scary' opportunities," she told People magazine.  "Doing something you're afraid of makes it stop being something you're afraid of," shared Rhimes.    story    



Principle in the type:  "Fairy tales are more than true:  not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."    Neil Gaiman