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Celebrate World Dream Day
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman
World Dream Day has been established for the purpose of encouraging individuals, communities, businesses, schools, and families to take some time to concentrate on their dreams and make an effort to turn them into a reality. You will find a lot of exciting resources and inspirational tools online to empower people to embark on the journey to make their dreams more than just a figment of their imagination. It’s time to go out there and get what we really want in our lives!
Dream Day is a vital day in terms of honoring the role that dreams play in all of our lives. Even more importantly, it is a day whereby we all inspire one and other, helping our loved ones, peers, and even strangers to put a plan in action to make positive changes in their lives and the wider world.
There are a number of different things that we can all do in order to put the wheels in motion and start achieving our dreams. The first step is finding something you want to believe in and being inspired. You may feel lost at the moment. You may not know what your dreams are. This is okay. Don’t put pressure on yourself. Dreams don’t have to be about glory or fame to be considered significant. It is all about what matters to you. What gives you a sense of purpose? What do you want from your life? You need to look deep inside and figure out what fulfills you. Be honest with yourself. Don’t feel like you need to pick a certain dream for the sake of someone else. This is personal to you.
One thing that tends to stop most people from achieving their dreams is fear. They are scared of the challenges that lie ahead. They are worried that they will fail on their quest to achieve their goals. It is important to try and adopt a healthy mindset when it comes to embracing the unknown, rather than simply running away from it.
Once you have decided on your goals and you feel focused, you should pursue your passions actively and take action. Do not allow your visions and dreams to exist passively as mere ideas. You need to concentrate and take action. One step at a time! In order to make big things happen, you do not need to make large decisions. Instead, you can divide this up into smaller goals, which can be just as fulfilling. Also, don’t be disheartened if you lose your way a little bit. The path to success is not always easy. Things may go off track and you may make mistakes along the way. You know what they say; the things worth having in life do not come easy. So, you need to persevere, and if you find yourself struggling, take a deep breath and even have a little break! Don’t be so hard on yourself.
History of Dream Day
It is time to sit back and relax and enjoy Dream Day!
But do not use it as an excuse to slip back into bed – Dream Day was set up by an instructor at Columbia University in 2012 as a way of helping us all achieve our dreams and to make the world a better place. The creator of the day is Ozioma Egwuonwu; a transformational strategist and educator. It was her aim to create a day that would help to heal and inspire humanity.
After all, a lot of things in our world have started out as a dream. Think about all of the different inventions that have occurred over the years. They usually start off as a dream. The same goes for all of the different books and songs that have been written over the years. Of course, there are dreams that have had a huge impact around the world in terms of civil rights. Martin Luther King. Jr made one of the most famous speeches of all time, which began with the words “I have a dream.” You can read the speed in full online, and we definitely recommend that you do so. Martin Luther King. Jr dreamed of an end to racism. He worked hard and dedicated his life to making this dream a reality.
Drone photography has become all the rage in recent years for professional photos. And why not? Instead of snapping that coveted pic of say, the Grand Canyon, from the same vantage point as thousands of others, drones offer a view that few — if any — have ever seen before.
Joke of the Day
thanks, Beth
Check out this stunning contrast of the blue river delta against the red landscape of the Point Reyes National Seashore, a protected coastline in Northern California.
Word of the Day
seat-of-the-pants
1. Using experience, instinct, or guesswork as opposed to methodical planning.
2. Done without instruments.
Norris McDonald; Methodical Racer Kellett Takes Aim at Indy 500; Toronto Star (Canada); Aug 22, 2020.
This photo won second place in the “Urban” category of National Geographic’s fourth annual Dronestagram contest.
Idiom of the Day
Agony aunt
An agony aunt is a newspaper columnist who gives advice to people having problems, especially personal ones.
This Irish castle looks stunning in the evening.
This Day in History
1513 - The Pacific Ocean was discovered by Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa when he crossed the Isthmus of Panama. He named the body of water the South Sea. He was truly just the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.
1789 - The first U.S. Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution. Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.
1890 - The Sequoia National Park was established as a U.S. National Park in Central California.
1953 - Liberace made his debut at Carnegie Hall for a sellout crowd.
1965 - Willie Mays, at the age of 34, became the oldest man to hit 50 home runs in a single season. He had also set the record for the youngest to hit 50 ten years earlier.
1978 - Melissa Ludtke, a writer for "Sports Illustrated", filed a suit in U.S. District Court. The result was that Major League Baseball could not bar female writers from the locker room after the game.
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court when she was sworn in as the 102nd justice. She had been nominated the previous July by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
1986 - An 1894-S Barber Head dime was bought for $83,000 at a coin auction in California. It is one of a dozen that exist.
1987 - The booty collected from the Wydah, which sunk off Cape Cod in 1717, was auctioned off. The worth was around $400 million.
1992 - In Orlando, FL, a judge ruled in favor of 12-year-old Gregory Kingsley. He had sought a divorce from his biological parents.
1997 - Mark & Brian received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2001 - Michael Jordan announced that he would return to the NBA as a player for the Washington Wizards. Jordan became the president of basketball operations for the team on January 19, 2000.
DAILY SQU-EEK
If You Were Born Today, September 25
You are warm, passionate, protective, creative, and you have a true appreciation for the dramatic, but at the same time, others readily respect you. You are able to mix business with pleasure, and you enjoy doing it! You are attracted to, or you attract, people who are success-oriented, accomplished, and practical. Although likable and charming, you are also a little difficult to get to know, and some level of mystery surrounds you. You thoroughly enjoy communicating, sharing your ideas, and reaching out to others, and many of you are skilled writers. Certainly you consider others' ideas important, and you are at your best in one-on-one situations. Famous people born today:
1764 Fletcher Christian, English sailor who led the mutiny on the HMS Bounty, born in Eaglesfield, Cumberland, England (d. ~1790-93)
1897 William Faulkner, American author (Sound & Fury-Nobel 1949), born in New Albany, Mississippi (d. 1962)
1906 Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (The Gadfly), born in St Petersburg, Russia (d. 1975)
1915 Ethel Rosenberg, American communist, born in New York City, New York (d. 1953)
1929 Barbara Walters, American broadcast journalist and 1st female nightly network news anchor (Today, 20/20, ABC-TV), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1944 Michael Douglas, American actor (Coma, Wall St, Jewel of the Nile), born in New Brunswick, New Jersey
1951 Mark Hamill, American actor (Luke Skywalker-Star Wars), born in Oakland, California
1952 Christopher Reeve, American actor (Superman, Somewhere in Time), born in New York City, New York (d. 2004)
1968 Will Smith, American rapper ("Parents Just Don't Understand") and actor (Men in Black, Independence Day, Fresh Prince of Bel Air), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1969 Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress (Chicago, The Terminal, The Legend of Zorro), born in Swansea, Wales
thanks, Michelle
READERS INFO
1.thanks for the Offbeat Holiday, PattySEPTEMBER 25: NATIONAL ONE-HIT WONDER DAY
2.SEPTEMBER 30
James Dean was driving his brand-new Porsche 550 Spyder to an
auto rally in Salinas, California, when he was involved in a head-on collision.
3.Yom Kippur in 2020 is on Sunday, the 27th of September.
Note that in the Jewish calendar, a holiday begins on the sunset of the previous day, so observing Jews will celebrate Yom Kippur on the sunset of Saturday, the 26th of September.
4.Coronavirus Style by Sylvia, CAN DO Correspondent
My church had put out a call to pray against intolerance and racism this Sunday afternoon.
How timely.
I have been going through the movie offerings on Amazon Prime and noticed in the Bollywood section several historical flicks about uprisings against the British. I was watching one and had to stop, I didn’t realize just how brutal the corporate greed was with the East India Company, how vast the uprisings, and its use of the British Army as virtual mercenaries.
My grandfather was a British warrior, and kept running away from school and lying about his age to be in the army. Evidently his father had to buy out his commission several times to get him through school, and we had a photo of him as a teen when he was stationed in India. I hated that photo, because though he died before I was born, all I had heard about him was how wonderful he was. When I saw the picture, with his pillbox jauntily cocked, his chest all puffed out, and the smug sneer tilting over his chin strap, I was horrified to find I did not think I would like him. As I grew older, more about him emerged. A gentleman rider with Teddy Roosevelt in his youth, was not so bad maybe. Camping like boy scouts with guns fighting yellow jackets. But after Wild Bill Cody’s Show died out, where he was a cowboy, he took to sniping at the Irish when he was old enough to know better. Then WWI after his younger brother was killed, and he himself caught some shrapnel that would eventually kill him. He was like a combat artist, I saw his paintings. But I never understood why, beyond his good looks and charm, anyone would think him wonderful. He drained my grandmother’s inheritance, took my father and uncle with him for tea with his mistress, and beat them mercilessly every Wednesday just for anything he had not caught them at.
My father had his own charm and good looks. He was a combat artist himself, and my mother spent most of her career at the Pentagon; but he made my mother’s life as miserable as she made his. She was an overt narcissist with bipolar/borderline disorder, and he was a covert narcissist. He had superiority issues and twisted philosophies that I could not accept. I adored him, but by the time I left home, I was terrified of him.
I feel jaded because my indelible streak of naiveté does not let me truly get how people can be so bloody inhuman to each other. We are all the same under our skin. We all breathe it in when it’s hot and humid, when it’s icy and dry. We all bleed. But it seems some of us have a way of being absolutely blind to everything except the superficial. As blind as others are incredibly spiritually x-ray visual, empathetic to what’s beneath, with emotions that live like 3D story plots within us as to the way things should really go. That shiny little God spark that dimly remembers heaven.
Wheat and tares…so much to pray for this coming Sunday.
auto rally in Salinas, California, when he was involved in a head-on collision.
My church had put out a call to pray against intolerance and racism this Sunday afternoon.
How timely.
I have been going through the movie offerings on Amazon Prime and noticed in the Bollywood section several historical flicks about uprisings against the British. I was watching one and had to stop, I didn’t realize just how brutal the corporate greed was with the East India Company, how vast the uprisings, and its use of the British Army as virtual mercenaries.
My grandfather was a British warrior, and kept running away from school and lying about his age to be in the army. Evidently his father had to buy out his commission several times to get him through school, and we had a photo of him as a teen when he was stationed in India. I hated that photo, because though he died before I was born, all I had heard about him was how wonderful he was. When I saw the picture, with his pillbox jauntily cocked, his chest all puffed out, and the smug sneer tilting over his chin strap, I was horrified to find I did not think I would like him. As I grew older, more about him emerged. A gentleman rider with Teddy Roosevelt in his youth, was not so bad maybe. Camping like boy scouts with guns fighting yellow jackets. But after Wild Bill Cody’s Show died out, where he was a cowboy, he took to sniping at the Irish when he was old enough to know better. Then WWI after his younger brother was killed, and he himself caught some shrapnel that would eventually kill him. He was like a combat artist, I saw his paintings. But I never understood why, beyond his good looks and charm, anyone would think him wonderful. He drained my grandmother’s inheritance, took my father and uncle with him for tea with his mistress, and beat them mercilessly every Wednesday just for anything he had not caught them at.
My father had his own charm and good looks. He was a combat artist himself, and my mother spent most of her career at the Pentagon; but he made my mother’s life as miserable as she made his. She was an overt narcissist with bipolar/borderline disorder, and he was a covert narcissist. He had superiority issues and twisted philosophies that I could not accept. I adored him, but by the time I left home, I was terrified of him.
I feel jaded because my indelible streak of naiveté does not let me truly get how people can be so bloody inhuman to each other. We are all the same under our skin. We all breathe it in when it’s hot and humid, when it’s icy and dry. We all bleed. But it seems some of us have a way of being absolutely blind to everything except the superficial. As blind as others are incredibly spiritually x-ray visual, empathetic to what’s beneath, with emotions that live like 3D story plots within us as to the way things should really go. That shiny little God spark that dimly remembers heaven.
Wheat and tares…so much to pray for this coming Sunday.
Meteora, or “The Valley of Fog,” a rock formation in Greece, using a specialized drone camera.
Pictures of the Day
knit
thanks, Connie
knit
thanks, Martha
Crochet Patterns of the Day:
crochet ... Halloween
thanks, Lois
thanks, Helen
crochet
Quarantine Cooking Recipes
RECIPE
40-Cloves-of-Garlic Chicken Alfredo
“Summer Trim” won first place in Nat Geo and Dronestagram’s annual photography contest in the “Nature” category.
CROCKPOT RECIPE
VEGAN/ VEGETARIAN RECIPE
Both vegetarian and vegan diets may provide health benefits, including reduced body weight, lower cholesterol levels, and decreased risk of cardiovascular disease. However, it is important for vegetarians and vegans to ensure that they are meeting all of their nutritional requirements.
SWEETS
ADULT COLORING
thanks, Kitty
PUZZLE
WORD SEARCH
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SUDOKU ... easy
solution:
He would soon be most recognizable for his fists as weapons, but here’s a mid-1960s image of Bruce Lee as a thug in an early TV appearance in Los Angeles.QUOTE
CLEVER
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