Were you Born with Wings?

"You were born with potential.

You were born with goodness and trust.

You were born with ideals and dreams.

You were born with greatness.

You were born with wings.

You are not meant for crawling, so don’t.

You have wings.

Learn to use them and fly."

Rumi

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Article: Born with Potential

https://www.virtuesforlife.com/rumi-you-were-born-with-wings/

Rock n Roll Homeroom Playlist: Fulfilling Potential

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MslDnwerQRA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4tSE2w53ts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avYxiIRG4xQ

Boredom Busting Website: Check out the World with Google Earth

https://earth.google.com/web/

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!

 A Thanksgiving Quote (from last year) worth repeating!

“Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. 

It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity...

it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”

Melody Beattie  

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This Week and Always...

"Start Each Day with a GRATEFUL Heart"

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Wishing you a most beautiful day and Thanksgiving!

 Gratitude: great to have, better to give!

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of the virtues,

but the parent of all of the others."

Cicero (106–43bc)

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Article: Gratitude, Parent of all virtues: 

https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-20/edition-1/gratitude-parent-all-virtues

RocknRoll Homeroom Playlist: On Gratitude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voNEgCKzves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TO48Cnl66w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLKiyo48VJI

Inspiring Video of the Week: Une chorégraphie Originale par Sadeck Waff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCdsIkQqAmE&t=8s

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!

 Cultivating Equanimity

(I'm trying!)

"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, 

and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. 

It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."

Carl Jung

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This Week's Care Package

Articles, videos, podcasts, thought provokers, and other nutrients for these challenging times...

Article: Equanimity: A Practice for Troubled Times

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-art-now/201710/equanimity-practice-troubled-times

Rock n Roll Homeroom Playlist: Music to help you find some equanimity; Weightless - Marconi Union. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzBvtLxg3M0

A Boredom Busting Video: A Story about a whale saving a woman's life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXNCCdcBhcY&t=327s

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!

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By the way, did you know that the Quote of the Week is Cruelty-Free?  

I do not test the Quote of the Week on innocent lab animals. 

  I can relate to this...

"I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do 

to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment."

Willem Dafoe

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This Week's Care Package

Articles, videos, podcasts, thought provokers, and other nutrients for these challenging times...

TED Talk: Want to be happier; Stay in the moment

https://www.ted.com/talks/matt_killingsworth_want_to_be_happier_stay_in_the_moment?language=en

Rock n Roll Homeroom Playlist: Living in the moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUFs_1vKYlY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJRWUOkJVVI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnQ8N1KacJc

A Meditation: Feeling Fully Present in The Moment 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVeyjwnxlIA

Boredom Busting Website:  Enjoy a Retro TV Experience

https://www.my90stv.com/#fqrfvijEJgs

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!

 Light up Others!

A candle loses nothing

by lighting another candle.

Italian Proverb

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This Week's Care Package

Articles, videos, podcasts, thought provokers, and other nutrients for these challenging times...

Article: How to Be the Light of Inspiration

https://terrikozlowski.com/be-the-light-by-being-authentic/

Rock n Roll Homeroom Playlist: The Light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkBtrPWSKM8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcWVL4B-4pI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ttqE4Bd2fA

Boredom Busting Website: Into Puzzles? This table may be for you!

Made me Smile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5VQUDpK9Iw

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!

 Your Soul Knows

"Your soul knows the geography of your destiny.

Your soul alone has the map of your future,

 therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. 

If you do, it will take you where you need to go, 

but more important it will teach you a kindness 

of rhythm in your journey."

John O'Donohue

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This Week's Care Package

Articles, videos, podcasts, thought provokers, and other nutrients for these challenging times...

Article: Does the Soul Exist? Evidence says Yes

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/biocentrism/201112/does-the-soul-exist-evidence-says-yes

Rock n Roll Homeroom Playlist: Soul Songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpI1fcJdFrA&t=10s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqKVFYD8Obc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9olaIio3l8

A Boredom Busting & Calming Video: Zen garden - Pattern explorations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxflcCxqebU&t=6s

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!

 This quote was inspired by my recent visit to

 New Hampshire's The White Mountains

“Keep close to nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in a while, 

and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. 

Wash your spirit clean.”

John Muir

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This Week's Care Package

Articles, videos, podcasts, thought provokers, and other nutrients for these challenging times...

Article: The Healing Power of Nature

https://time.com/4405827/the-healing-power-of-nature/

Rock n Roll Homeroom Playlist: Songs about Nature

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMMiXjwhODU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3-JreXuvCs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU_NdXcqYTw

A Boredom Busting Website: How Mushroom Time Lapses Are Filmed

https://kottke.org/21/09/how-mushroom-time-lapses-are-filmed

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!

 Enjoy the beauty of waiting and the anticipation of what’s to come.

Trust the wait. 

Embrace the uncertainty. 

Enjoy the beauty of becoming. 

When nothing is certain, anything is possible.

Mandy Hale

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This Week's Care Package

Articles, videos, podcasts, thought provokers, and other nutrients for these challenging times...

Article: On Waiting

https://philosophynow.org/issues/96/On_Waiting

Rock n Roll Homeroom Playlist: Songs about "Waiting"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJngWval8Bc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMyCa35_mOg&t=6s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkBvsBpgGbo

A Boredom Busting Website: Watch some great video shorts...

https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks?utm_campaign=Recomendo&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!

 Who rekindles your inner spirit?

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.  

It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.  

We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." 

Albert Schweitzer

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This Week's Care Package

Articles, videos, podcasts, thought provokers, and other nutrients for these challenging times...

Article: Why Friends Matter

https://hbr.org/2010/07/why-friends-matter-at-work-and.html

Boredom Busting Website: Bike Riding the Rails through the California Redwoods

https://vimeo.com/555048261

Rock n Roll Homeroom Playlist: Friendship Songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C58ttB2-Qg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNZUKm0ApEM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMsvwwp6S7Q

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!!!

 Nothing lasts Forever

"Nothing lasts forever; so live it up, drink it down, 

avoid the negativity, take chances and never regret 

because at one point it was what you wanted." 

M. Scott Peck

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This Week's Care Package

Articles, videos, podcasts, thought provokers, and other nutrients for these challenging times...

Podcast: Oprah talks with M. Scott Peck 

https://omny.fm/shows/oprah-s-supersoul-conversations/oprah-dr-m-scott-peck

Rock n Roll Homeroom Playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpkLxquBg8s

A Boredom Busting Website: Cats and Dominos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nn7NZI_LN4&t=8s

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!

 Positive Psychology in 100 Words

“Live courageously, through creation and adversity.

Take maximum responsibility. Belong. Share a purpose.

Fulfillment over instant gratification. Resilience over happiness.

Gratitude over habituation. Savour the good. Expect the good, realistically.

Work from strengths, in flow, autonomously.

Less comfort, more growth. Realize meaning by helping others.

Kindness as religion. Give, give, give, receive.

Passion over profit. Laugh and play while you can.

Express yourself soulfully. Explore your ego, check the narrative.

Reflect don’t ruminate. Just be, mindfully present, vulnerably now.

Forgive. Accept yourself, unconditionally. Perceive emotions as data.

Love what’s broken. Embrace the uncontrollable.

Hug one second longer… Till… The end.”

PositivePsychology.com

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This Week's Care Package

Articles, videos, podcasts, thought provokers, and other nutrients for these challenging times...

Rock n Roll Homeroom Playlist: Positive Songs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUmE-tne5U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBpsOu8jyU8 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEeaS6fuUoA

Article: 19 Most Practical Positive Psychology Worksheets, Activities, and Techniques

https://positivepsychology.com/positive-psychology-worksheets-activities/

Boredom Busting Website: What if every sport was a bowling ball

https://vimeo.com/587597297

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!

 Life & |Obstacles

"For a long time, it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. 

But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, 

some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. 

At last, it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life."

Alfred D. Souza

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This Week's Care Package

Articles, videos, podcasts, thought provokers, and other nutrients for these challenging times...

Article: 10 Reasons to Love the Obstacles in Your Life

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/10-reasons-to-love-the-ob_b_5306521

Video: The Obstacle is the Way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1lHP1Pf-xk

Rock n Roll Homeroom Playlist: Overcoming Obstacles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t99KH0TR-J4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FMhUNSIxks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkwJ-g0iJ6w

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!