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!

WINNING AT LOVE

photo by BeckyCortino

There is such a thing as stamp news, and it's usually rather benign!   As was the recently released USPS sky-blue stamp, featuring "an illustration of a plane skywriting the word love.”   Awww, all the heart eyes.   If only love stamps had the power to solve the world's problems?     story    

Principle in the type:  "Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved."    Thomas S. Monson

CHILD'S PLAY

photo by Pedro Ribeiro Simoes

“ 'Tag' — perhaps the oldest childhood game around — has been banned at a California elementary school."   Gold Ridge Elementary staffers became concerned some kids were getting too rough.  I hope this is a temporary misunderstanding.  Oy vey.  Please, someone point me in the direction of a normal childhood.   news            

Principle in the type: "Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up an dust ourselves off."   Dieter F. Uchtdorf

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

photo by Wendy Cope

                                                                      ~International relations.  The lighter side~



                                

Principle in the type:  "Humor is the great thing, the saving thing.  The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations and resentments flit away and a sunny spirit takes their place."   Mark Twain  (Tom Sawyer)

                                                                                     Happy, Happy Weekend, Peeps!

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

HANDS

photo by m o n c h o o h c n o m

Another day, another sad news story.   I am thinking about the love we don't show each other, and the love we do show each other.   We are all God's children.   God's hands.



                                         

Principle in the type:  "God sees you not only as a mortal being on a small planet who lives for a brief season—He sees you as His child.  He sees you as the being you are capable and designed to become.   He wants you to know that you matter to Him."     Dieter F. Uchtdorf

                                                                                        Happy Weekend, my friends