GIVE ME A 'Y' GIVE ME AN 'O'

photo by Cordelia Naumann

Where there are football players, there are cheerleaders!  These ladies (see link) worked hard, to make the Los Angeles Chargers squad.  In other news, you may not have to do the splits to make your own dreams come true.   (Sigh of relief emoji...)     news               

Principle in the type:  "Work without vision is drudgery.  Vision without work is dreaming.  Work plus vision - this is destiny."    Gordon B. Hinckley

GIRL POWER

photo by University of Michigan Library

International Women's Day.  I'm grateful for all the opportunities women Do have in the States.  And I'm grateful for good mothers; the hand that rocks the cradle.  Truly.   And in Italy, March 8th includes cake.  Every International Day is better with cake, no?    

Principle in the type:  "Never have women had greater influence than in today’s world.  Never have the doors of opportunity opened wider for them.  This is an inviting, exciting, challenging and demanding period of time for women.  It is a time rich in rewards if we keep our balance, learn the true values of life, and wisely determine priorities.”   Bella Smith Spafford

HERE TODAY

photo by JakobT_98

OMGolly!  Bob Harper a heart attack?  The Biggest Loser, Oprah, Sir Healthalot, Bob Harper?!   "He was working out in a NYC gym 2 weeks ago when he collapsed."   Luckily Harper is well on the mend.  Lessons.  If there is one thing we can expect in life, it's the unexpected.      news

Principle in the type:  "It is the knowledge that I'm going to die, that creates the focus, that I bring to being alive.  The urgency of accomplishment.  The need to express love, now, not later."   Neil deGrasse Tyson         

TOP TO BOTTOM

photo by Moyan Brenn

As the local Arizona Public Service rep, Kevin Hartigan is basically in charge of keeping the Grand Canyon open.  There are power lines, for instance, headed from rim to canyon bottom that are 7000 feet long.  "Without power, the water pumps in the park stop working.  If the pumps stop working, water no longer flows into faucets, toilets, showers and drinking fountains . . . . If there is no water, the park must close."   The buck stops with Hartigan.    Interesting read -  story     

Principle in the type: "Let us give full, honest effort to our jobs as though we owned the enterprise. In a very real sense, each of us is in business for ourselves, no matter who pays us."    J. Richard Clarke  

RESTING AND LABORS

photo by Kevin Dooley

I listened to this Ray Charles version during our fireworks display last July 4th.  It hit my sweet spot.  Enjoy.  And Happy Labor Day Weekend, you Americans you!!




                                  

Principle in the type:  "The truth is there is no perfect industry.  There are great people and great opportunities for all of us in whatever line we are in."     Rob Lowe

DETAILS, DETAILS...

photo by Eduardo Sciammarella

Sooo, where is NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory really located?  Pasadena, you say?  La Cañada, you think?  Well, "technically, La Cañada won JPL from Pasadena in 1976 when it incorporated as a city, but Pasadena has succeeded in annexing the campus in the court of public opinion."   (Think The Big Bang Theory, and The Martian, as two recent JPL 'Pasadena' groupies.)   True the mailing address shows Pasadena, but physically it is in La Cañada.   At least both cities know a good thing when they see it!   story           

Principle in the type:  "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works . . . "    Bible  

SWEEPING AGENDA

photo by David Goehring

Oh dear, sweet, politics.  How you torture us.
Here's to a simpler day:



                                      

Principle in the type:  "Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results."     James Lane Allen

 

                                                                                      Happy Weekend all you Peeps!