This Week 7’s (12.14 – 12.31) Affirmation: Mindfulness – I will reach for mindfulness each day.
Date – 12.26.17
B-Book 44: Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
The key message in this book: Often we stop dead in our tracks …
First category I added when I started this blog many moons ago. I jot stuff here I can't otherwise categorize.
The section you will see a swear or two in. Not that I am a big fan, but sometimes situation can't be helped
Here you will find books that I have read, reading or intend to read. More Recent Reads => CLICK HERE.
I intend to use this area to catalog my writing journey and collect tidbits of information on the authoring process.
These are areas I am very much interested in. From time to time, as I am so moved, I free think here as well
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-15
My Daily Read: Red wine-heart research slammed with fraud charges http://t.co/NXuqRu4b #
My Daily Read: Frequent red meat eaters at higher risk of stroke http://t.co/Yr0hYn3a #
My Daily Read: Stephen Hawking: Heaven is "a fairy story …
RupeFit: Tester Post
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Namaste: Honoring the Spirit in You
Namaste is a Hindi salutation or greeting. The word Namaste is a combination of the two Sanskrit words: nama, and te. Basically, nama means “to bow” and te means “you.”
Interpretation:
The God/Goddess Spirit within me recognizes …
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-08
My Daily Read: What Jobs Numbers Mean For Obama’s Employment http://t.co/CVJNLyTw #
My Daily Read: Will anti-fat bias affect the 2012 election? http://t.co/bGmOy5X9 #
My Daily Read: Santorum takes heat on values http://t.co/EorAj7bA #
My Daily Read: A …
Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes: Love Lift Us Up
I am still having a bit of a nostalgia here. This is one of the top songs of the 1980’s. The expression of triumph with love is timeless. Hope it is not too sappy…enjoy.
Twitter Daily Updates for 2012-01-07
My Daily Read: New Defense Guidance Embraces Strategic Decline http://t.co/0yuc07J6 #
My Daily Read: The Rise of the American Oligarchy http://t.co/qC6Xa9Td #
My Daily Read: The Strange Death of the Republican Moderate http://t.co/NslcUykg #
My Daily Read: Copernicus’s …
Bee Gees: How Deep Is Your Love
To say the Bee Gees is one of my top 3 favorite groups of all times is putting it crazy mildly. I pretty much grew up having my puppy love crushes with these songs playing …
Twitter Updates for 2012-01-06
My Daily Read: Top 1% of Mobile Users Consume Half of World’s Bandwidth, and Gap Is Growing http://t.co/LLdbGNQy #
My Daily Read: Prosecutors in Egypt Call for Mubarak to Be Hanged http://t.co/eQCAOcBx #
My Daily Read: Physicists …
Twitter Updates for 2012-01-05
My Daily Read: 2 Navy Pilots Among Dead in Murder, Suicide http://t.co/aITAP51O #
My Daily Read: Exclusive: Pakistan Taliban commanders "at each other's throats" http://t.co/Yus3Dt48 #
My Daily Read: Google Bases a Campaign on Emotions, Not Terms …
A Visual Slide Show: Acupuncture
What Is Acupuncture?
Acupuncture is an age-old healing practice of traditional Chinese medicine in which thin needles are placed at specific points in the body. It’s primarily used to relieve pain but also has been used …
Dangerous Workout Fads
About 10 years ago, a friend of mine—who was a strength coach for a Major League baseball team—told me about an all-star outfielder who was absolutely crazy about fitness. So much so that the player …
AIr Supply / Mariah Carey: Without You
This is one of my favorite songs. I first fell in love with this song as a teenager, when Air Supply first introduced it back in the ’80s. Then Mariah came and blew it away. The …
Egyptian court rules against virginity tests
To read the full story click source link below…
Source: CNN
My Comments:
The fact that a court in this day and age had to make such a ruling is troubling…you have got to be kidding me. Â Again, …
Weeping for the Dear Leader
Comments:
You have got to be freaking kidding me. Â These folks cannot be serious. Â I am sure in some delusional way this makes perfect sense, but it is unbelievable. Â A total mind-F#$$% of a population. Â I …
For Black Girls, Lack Of Exercise Heightens Obesity Risk
The evidence of America’s obesity epidemic is all around us. But the problem is particularly acute among African-American women.
About half of African-American women in the U.S. are obese, compared to 30 percent of white women. …
Pastor Yousef: Convert or Die – Tehran delays execution to try to force Christians to apostalize
Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, the Iranian Christian cleric facing death for the crime of apostasy against an Islamic faith he never held, has been given a temporary stay of execution. Iran’s top judge, Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani, instructed presiding Judge Ghazi …
18-year-old in India named world's shortest woman
Standing just over 2 feet tall, Jyoti Amge of Nagpur, India, was confirmed Friday as the world’s shortest living woman.
Guinness World Records, known as the global authority on record-breaking — albeit odd — achievements, flew …
Title: The Evolution of God
Title: The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
Summary:
In this sweeping narrative, which takes us from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Robert Wright unveils an astonishing discovery: there is a hidden pattern that the …
Saudi woman beheaded for ‘witchcraft and sorcery’
A woman was beheaded in Saudi Arabia for practicing witchcraft and sorcery, the kingdom’s Interior Ministry said, prompting Amnesty International to call for a halt in executions there.
Amina bint Abdel Halim Nassar was executed Monday …
Remembering December 2011
[simpleviewer gallery_id=”9″]So I have been taking it easy at home, sort of trying to get used to not having to fight the daily grind each day. Â Not sure how much of this I can take, …
Rupe’s YoB: Update
So I have not posted anything on my physical fitness here in about 6-8 weeks.  Yep, it has been a pretty busy period lots of transition on the  professional front.
Well, there is more to it …
Title: Stiff
Title:Â Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Summary:
An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem.
For two thousand years, cadavers (some willingly, some unwittingly) have been involved in …
Title: The Year of Magical Thinking
Title: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Summary
“Life changes fast….You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.” These were among the first words Joan Didion wrote in January 2004. Her …
Rupe’s YoB: Phase III-Day 33(M31) – Cardio
Narrative:
Went for a pretty hard run today…definitely felt it. Â The run was hard because it was all road work with car going back and forth. Â I haven’t had one of those in a very long …
Firms to charge smokers, obese more for healthcare
Like a lot of companies, Veridian Credit Union wants its employees to be healthier. In January, the Waterloo, Iowa-company rolled out a wellness program and voluntary screenings.
It also gave workers a mandate – quit smoking, …
Thousands of veterans living on the streets
They served their country, and now they’re being left out in the cold.Soldiers who have returned from battlegrounds in Iraq and Afghanistan are twice as likely to be living on the streets than other Americans, …
Rupe’s YoB: Phase III-Day 32(S29) – Cardio
Narrative:
First workout day after being off for over week. Â I have been pretty much down with the flu for roughly a week straight – aches, sneezes, coughs and all. Â So today I slid back into …
Mandy: Westlife
Mandy by Westlife (Original done by Barry Manilow)
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I remember all my life
Raining down as cold as ice
A shadow of a man
A face through a window
Crying in the night
The night goes into
Morning, just another day
Happy …
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