Positive Thoughts | Positive Actions | Positive Results
Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can’t control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.”
~ Tommy Newberry, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life
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And, remember … Feed Your Good Dog so your good dog always wins!
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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To honor the life and work of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.” ~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Read entire I Have A Dream speech here or listen to the audio from Internet Archives
Not only did the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. deliver one of the most powerful speeches of all time, in 1964, he became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means.
His biography on Nobelprize.org gives insight into Dr. King’s ideals and level of commitment. It also gives us an idea of the stamina he must of had to keep up with the incredible amount of work he did as he set out to make this world a better place.
In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, “l Have a Dream”, he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.
By the time of his death in 1968, he had refocused his efforts on ending poverty and opposing the Vietnam War, both from a religious perspective. Dr. King was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004.
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And, remember…Feed Your Good Dog, so your good dog always wins!
If you are a woman in your 40s, and are now rethinking some of what you learned growing up female, check out this blog post entitled “Learning the Force: ADHD and an Unexpected Jedi Knight” at Moon Stars Lovers. You will surely connect with the author, A.M. Bolling, as she treats us to her perspective on growing up a female Star Wars fan and her newly found suspicion that she has ADHD. She deftly ties the two together to make this essay interesting, memorable and educational. She is convincing in her musings that male and female alike can possess the “force”, that it is not only for men as once portrayed, and that the same is true for ADHD. As she contemplates what it means, and has meant, for her life to have ADHD, she doesn’t forget to think about the positive personality qualities one may have because of this “disorder”. She says: “Of course, there are plenty of positive things about having ADHD. Creative, courageous and adventurous attributes of my personality that I really like, if not love . . .” and then vows to learn how best to use them just like she would the “force”.
May the force be with us all…and, remember…feed your good dog so your good dog always wins!
Mother Teresa will be canonized. It is official! “. . . the Pope accepted the miracle attributed to Mother Teresa which has been being studied, namely, the healing of a Brazilian man inexplicably cured of brain abscesses.
Henry David Thoreau on Observation:
Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray, i.e. we are not looking for it. So, in the largest sense, we find only the world we look for. — Journal, 2 July 1857
Source: The Waldon Woods Project
And, remember . . . Feed Your Good Dog so your good dog always wins!