Our self-image and our habits tend to go together.

Our self-image and our habits tend to go together.

Change one and you will automatically change the othe."

— Napoleon Hill: Early pioneer of personal-success literature;

"Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become."
-Maxwell Maltz: American cosmetic surgeon and author of Psycho-Cybernetics

Living with ms is like a life sentence in prison

Sleep Interrupted

For months, I've been weak and in intense pain that makes sleep difficult.  

Combining multiple sclerosis nerve damage with old injuries creates some novel pain and restless leg syndrome limits sleep and causes a kind of bone numbing exhaustion.  

MS requires rest and sleep or you will suffer more than need be.  So you see the frustration it can cause having sleep interrupted.  

Generally, talking about ms is pointless because there are no effective treatments, it sounds like whining and complaining to try explaining what symptoms accrue with a chronic, progressive disease with no cure.  

It gets depressing to talk about and I grew up wanting to be strong so being sick is a form of failure.

Buddy Rich / One O'Clock Jump

  

Buddy Rich / One O'Clock Jump 

Bill Cunliffe arrangement featuring Steve Marcus - tenor sax, Mike Davis - trombone, Simon Gardener & Tony Gorruso - trumpet. Berlin Jazz Festival, November 3, 1984

https://youtu.be/nzIQYJ0bjFA 

YO YO MA and ITZHAK PERLMAN PLAY DVORAK

YO YO MA and ITZHAK PERLMAN PLAY DVORAK

A CELEBRATION OF DVORAK.

CONDUCTOR: SEIJI  OZAWA

Link: https://youtu.be/JZnzjzjYkK0

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.

I wish I could show you

When you are lonely or in darkness

The astonishing light of your own being!

 

 

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.

If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.

Thich Nhat Hanh

One moment at a time Enjoy the good stuff Breathe through the hard stuff New moments and days are coming.

Otis Spann - Trouble In Mind

Thinking about the death and destruction in Australia is giving me PTSD.

I'm thinking a digital detox is something that could calm my troubled mind... turn off the news for a few days.

Otis Spann - Trouble In Mind



From The Album: Must Have Been The Devil

Copyright 2003, 2012 Grammercy Records

For More Information About This Album, Please Visit Our Website At

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Link: https://youtu.be/JaYNGdHOmfk

Top 10 Tips to Keep Your Brain Young | Elizabeth Amini

  

Top 10 Tips to Keep Your Brain Young |  Elizabeth Amini 

Elizabeth Amini is a social entrepreneur with a background in science. She learned data analysis while working as a scientist at JPL/NASA. Elizabeth earned a bachelors degree in Cognitive Science (the study of the brain) from Occidental College and an M.B.A. from University of Southern California. Her Anti-AgingGames.com business plan won the USC Business Plan contest as well as the YPO (Young Presidents' Organization) award for promising new companies.

Anti-AgingGames.com features fun and easy brain stimulation games designed by Nolan Bushnell, the Founder of Atari, and a team of expert neurobehavioral scientists.  Our system includes memory, concentration, focus, and relaxation games.  Anti-AgingGames.com includes tips distilled from over 17,000 medical studies that teach how to potentially reduce the risk of early memory loss through lifestyle changes.

We are a socially responsible company: 20% of our pre-tax profits go into an Impact Fund to improve quality and length of life around the world by providing medicine, clean water access, and supplies to places in need, as well as focusing on Alzheimer's, dementia, and stroke prevention research.

https://youtu.be/2tcEgqTWbxQ

Salman Khan, Founder of the Khan Academy

  

https://youtu.be/Q7VrfzxLxuk

Joy of Life (Le Bonheur de Vivre), 1905 by Henri Matisse

Le bonheur de vivre is a painting by Henri Matisse. 

Along with Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Le bonheur de vivre is regarded as one of the pillars of early modernism. Wikipedia

Artist: Henri Matisse

Otis Redding - Cigarettes And Coffee

Otis Redding - Cigarettes And Coffee - YouTube
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Lyrics

It's early in the morning

About a quarter till three

I'm sittin' here talkin' with my baby

Over cigarettes and coffee, now

And to tell you that

Darling I've been so satisfied

Honey since I met you

Baby since I met you, ooh

All the places that I've been around

And all the good looking girls I've met

They just don't seem to fit in

Knowing this particularly sad, yeah

But it seemed so natural, darling

That you and I are here

Just talking over cigarettes and drinking coffee, ooh now

And whole my heart cries out

Love at last I've found you, ooh now

And honey won't you let me

Just be my whole life around you

And while I complete, I complete my whole life would be, yeah

If you would take things under consideration

And walk down this hour with me

And I would love it, yeah

People I say it's so early in the morning

Oh, it's a quarter till three

We're sittin' here talkin'

Over cigarettes and drinking coffee, now, lord

And I'll like to show you, well

I've known nothing but good old joy

Since I met you, darling

Honey since I've met you, baby yeah

I would love to have another drink of coffee, now

And please, darling, help me smoke this one more cigarette, now

I don't want no cream and sugar

Cause I've got you, now darling

But just let me enjoy

Help me to enjoy

This good time that we'll have, baby

It's so early, so early in the morning

So early, so early in the morning

And I've got you

And you've got me

And we'll have each other

And we don't, we don't want nothing but joy, y'all

Nothing but joy
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Songwriters: Jerry Butler / Edward Thomas / J

We cultivate Hope

In his 102nd year, [humanist philosopher Hans-Georg] Gadamer was asked for his reaction to the attack on the World Trade Center in New York. He answered in German, “Es ist mir recht unheimlich geworden,” Meaning that the world had become strange, even uncanny, to him. He went on to add that “people cannot live without hope; that is the only thesis I would defend without any restriction.” Yet, when his pupil and successor Dieter Henrich visited him for the last time in Heidelberg, he repeated that one cannot live without hope, but added that this hope had become this small, and he raised his hand and showed the tiny gap of light between his thumb and index finger.

Simon Critchley

The Book of Dead Philosophers (2008)

Photo: Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002)

Raison d'être 


Link: https://beingsakin.wordpress.com/category/the-human-condition/page/2/

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Charles Bukowski