Illinois ladies facing bc
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The task is to recognize that you are uniquely special, have something to give, some talent no one else shares in quite the same way. This gift needs to blossom so we can appreciate and enjoy the benefits of it and acknowledge you for it. You owe this to yourself and to all of us to honor your gifts, for only when you share your unique joy with the world does the entire world benefit. Every advance humankind has known has come because of someone's effort. Don't let shyness rob you and the world of the power and the passion that lies within you. No one can be all that you will be except you yourself. Follow your passion.
Joel Garfinkle0 -
Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Joshua J. Marine0 -
Coming to appreciate your worth can, in some cases, dramatically improve your circumstances by changing the choices you make and the actions you take.And as you begin to treat yourself with more respect, other people begin to do the same, since we subconsciously "train" others how to treat us through messages we send through body language, tone of voice, and other subtle cues and behaviors. Discovering your innate worth and living from that place allows you to make more constructive choices--to choose the higher roads of life.
Dan Millman0 -
Mother Nature paid a visit overnight -- she put frost all over my car. Hmmm, I think it might finish off those few leaves still hanging on the trees. It will re-warm a bit, but likely not quite enough to suit me. We did get our new furnace installed -- have several pieces left to do. Likely may not get the a/c condenser installed until Spring --- but that is okay. More important is to get that heat going.
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Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands.But like seafarers on the desert waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz0 -
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
-- Marcel Proust0 -
There must be a place where hopes and dreams are nurtured,
and that place is only within ourselves.A place to clean the
grime of life, a place that waits for us to stay and look inside
that we might see the truth.
Cliff Robertson0 -
This came in late, and I wanted to put it in now -- I was afraid I'd forget to use it tomorrow. Lots of relevance for what it says.
"Silence brings peacefulness through which I hear my wisest voice. It helps me remember I am more than my analytical left brain and the doing nature of my conscious mind. I remember that I don't have to DO anything at all to experience Peace, Love, Joy and Freedom. I can simply be still and know that I am already those things."
- Valerie Sheppard
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No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it. Peace is a margin of power around our daily need.Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up.Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality.
Harry Emerson Fosdick0 -
Love today's quote!
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I suspect that the happiest people you know are the ones who work at being kind, helpful, and reliable—and happiness sneaks into their lives while they are busy doing those things.It is a by-product, never a primary goal. - Harold S. Kushner
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Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
Maurice Maeterlinck0 -
Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.
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There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem,
the more likely one will treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.
People who do not experience self-love have little or no capacity to love others.
Nathaniel Branden0 -
Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings,
of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home.
He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.
- Osho0 -
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.
Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama0 -
Imagine how our lives might be if everyone had even a bit more of the Wisdom that comes from seeing clearly. Suppose people everywhere, simultaneously, stopped what they were doing and paid attention for only as long as it took to recognize their shared humanity. Surely the heartbreak of the world's pain, visible to all, would convert everyone to kindness. What a gift that would be.
Sylvia Boorstein0 -
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you
have a right to do and what is right to do.
Potter Stewart0 -
Brr this morning here -- no snow, and I don't think we will get any but I'm thinking of all those in Chicagoland. Very cold there. I will I bet remember the gloves I "meant" to buy last time I was at Walmarts. After looking at the temp. gauge in my car at 16 degrees, and holding onto a VERY cold steering wheel. I know exactly how many blocks it takes for my car to warm and I was studiously NOT or hopefully so, thinking about the distance left before the heat would pour out and onto my hands. Thinking of you all, all of the time. Stay warm.
Jackie
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It was so cold last night that I had to wear UGGS plus a hat & gloves, drink hot coffee at the radio station in the evening, and turn off the ceiling fan in the bedroom. Walking around the house now in my thermals and slippers. When I go out tonight for my support group meeting, I will throw on a fisherman sweater and ugly yoga pants as a second layer (which might mean I’d need to wear a looser coat). Maybe even a muffler. (Yes, I am officially a Chicagoan now).
The rest of the week is gonna suck big-time. Tomorrow we won’t get out of the single digits, and the low will be below zero. Fri. & Sat. will have constant snow, and on Sunday (after an overnight subzero low) the snow will be mixed with rain & sleet. After a low of -10 (air temp, not wind chill), we’ll stay in the deep freeze Monday. And a week from tomorrow, we head to NYC…….assuming no weather-related flight cancellations. At the rate my back is “improving,” I will definitely need a wheelchair in the airports and my Rollator (or at least a cane) to get around on vacation. I had a setback this morning on arising—yesterday, major traffic jams en route to the station, 90+ min. for a normally 45-min. drive, and an hour getting home. Ugh. Back to hobbling. And I promised my NP I’d attend tonight’s support-group meeting!
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Many people do not know that they can strengthen or diminish the life around them.The way we live day to day simply may not reflect back to us our power to influence life or the web of relationships that connects us.Life responds to us anyway.We all have the power to affect others.We may affect those we know and those we do not even know at all. . . . Without our knowing, we may influence the lives of others in very simple ways.
Rachel Naomi Remen0 -
Cold here today in southern Illinois but hey --- I'm here and it is going to be a great day no matter what the weather. The bravado comes easy when you have a new furnace working well. Ah, life is so very good.
Jackie
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A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others,
is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
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Wayne Dyer ( along with so many others ) is a huge favorite of mine for quotes. He passed away several months ago, but his fantastic quotes insures that he lives on. Hope you all have a good day. I know the weather could be far better --- sort of the same way here though I do know it is better than yours. Thinking of all of you with love and care.
Blessings,
Jackie
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We are getting the slick, icy roads in Central IL tonight. Took someone 2 hours to go from Bloomington to Carlock on I-74 (20 minute trip most days if that ). Glad to be tucked inside with a good book, my computer and the kitty.
You Illinois ladies stay safe tonight---it is doing this all the way to St. Louis and probably to Chicago.....
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Yeah—the icy “wintry mix" is falling all the way north to I-80. We're getting just snow. I hate dealing with snow (though it's pretty to look at) and subzero weather, but I'm terrified of freezing rain & black ice—and have been ever since my first experience with it when I was 22 and a newly-minted driver in Seattle. I was on the way to Snoqualmie Pass for a group X-C ski lesson; and halfway across the Mercer Island floating bridge, my little Datsun began fishtailing and skidding. I pulled over to the shoulder and hit my flashers, heart pounding. Not long after that, a state trooper appeared. When I told him why I was stopped, he asked if I'd ever heard of black or “glare" ice—coming from Brooklyn, this was the first I knew of it. He told me to very lightly use the gas pedal and to remember from my driving lessons how to get out of a skid. And he drove alongside me till we were on terra firma again.
My other experiences with black ice were first, in Dec. 1990, when we were walking back to the parking garage from the Chicago Theater. It was drizzling…or so I thought. I immediately thought otherwise when, in the middle of crossing State St., my feet went out from under me and I felt my left knee twist. Only then did I run my hand across what looked like wet asphalt and realize the “wet" was ice. Managed to get to the garage and drive to the ER (I drive an automatic), get an X-ray, a knee immobilizer (I have enough of 'em now to start a pop-up store) and a referral for an MRI. It was an ACL sprain, but only slightly, so no surgery—just lots of PT. My knee was never really the same since then.
Second, flash forward to Feb. 2011. My singing partner & I were on I-57, in his Pontiac Vibe, en route to a folk music conference down in Memphis. The weather report said “light rain." Stopped just s. of Champaign for dinner, and when we came out there was ice all over the car windows, and it was beginning to snow. Uh-oh. We scraped it off and set out for Memphis. We saw trucks jackknifed along the shoulder, and my singing partner was trying valiantly to keep the car on a steady course, despite several fishtails in the intensifying snow over ice. Suddenly, just s. of Rantoul, we spun in circles, but my life didn't unreel before my eyes—instead, all I could think, strangely calm, was “so this is how it ends—it's been a good run." At that point, we flew over the shoulder, a ditch, a barbed-wire fence and came to rest in a snow-covered cornfield. We asked each other, “You okay?" and we both were. We took a beat, then uttered nearly simultaneously, “if we don't get a song out of this, we're in the wrong business.”
We went outside and amazingly, the car had only a few scratches. We called 911 to report the accident and then GEICO for a tow. It was snowing so hard that we saw several plows go by, only to watch the snow blow itself back on to the road surface. A Good Samaritan with a pickup spotted us and tried to pull us out, but his chain wasn't long enough to reach over the ditch & fence. Finally, the state police, followed by an IDOT tow truck, arrived. As he was hooking up the bumper, he said “third one tonight." Once we were back on the shoulder (we called GEICO back to cancel), we agreed we shouldn't try for Mt. Vernon, where we had Holiday Inn Express reservations. The trooper advised us to take it very slowly, no faster than 20 mph, and that there was a Holiday Inn Express 12 miles south of us in Mattoon. I took the wheel and we crawled all the way there, white-knucked—the longest 12-mile drive of my life. They had two rooms available, and I asked them to call ahead to the HIE in Mt. Vernon to cancel. The desk clerk handed me the phone, and the HIE clerk in Mt. Vernon at first refused to cancel, insisting we didn't give her enough notice! I calmly explained that we really hadn't known 12 hours earlier that we were going to spin out and nearly get killed. After some mumbling, her manager got on the line and said officiously, “OK, just this once we won't charge your credit card. But next time, give us 12 hrs. notice." What a d**khead.
Next morning, I came down to breakfast with a parody already written—the last line of which was “Shove it up your Winter Wonderland."
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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Drove home from Walmart's last night through ice. All was fine when we first went into the store --- how fast things can change. Didn't mean to spend much time there knowing that possibilities were grave and great. Well, we made it. Our store ( to us ) is on the far side of town. At any rate -- on exiting the store in what looked like in-convenient drizzle -- we shortly found ourselves "slipping" our way to the car. Fortunately I managed to get one of the few non-handicapped spaces almost opposite the front door.
So, we crawled the three and a half or so ( who knows maybe a bit more ) miles through town. Sure someone un-seen was changing a lot of the red lights to green just as I was approaching them. Got to the edge of town --- with about two and a half or so to get home. The last mile and a half is on blacktop roads which were far better than the highway --- we didn't dare go over 15 mph. on the highway. Even with those short distances -- the tenseness made me feel like I had done hard gym exercise. Such a relief to get home.
It is all right outside this a.m. Lots of fog but that will dissipate later. Sometime afternoon --- some freezing rain again which may get covered with snow, and I have one thing to say SIGH. Not liking that our winter Christmas season is starting this way --- not at all. No choice though so I will learn how to be very careful in my almost ( but new to me ) car. My old one was four-wheel drive which gave me cautious confidence and I never had a problem -- except for a couple of times when I had forgotten to turn it on. This new car has a button inside to push --- and it has one wheel that will grab on and give you traction. If there is ice on the roadway though --- extreme care no matter what your car has or hasn't.
Sandy -- Mt. Vernon is about 20 miles south of where I live --- we could have yelled hi almost had you KEPT and used your reservation. Glad you made other plans though.
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Did not leave the house today---and now we have more freezing rain coming down. I came so close to leaving my car at Dad's and bringing his Lincoln to my house Friday morning--but it won't fit in my one car garage, so I didn't. So glad I didn't since I would have had to warm it forever or scrape like crazy..... Not sure I will make it to Mass in the morning if it is a repeat of today........Also glad I did not light out for Shawneetown yesterday after my Onc appointment. I would have had to come back tomorrow and forecast isn't good for tomeorrow either.
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Yup—AWD and 4WD will get you going and keep you moving through snow, but carry no advantage over FWD or RWD when it comes to ice.
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