Tuesday, January 28, 2014
An online daily putting "Hooray!" in your day

Glorious You!

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Today is a day for bursting forth, for leaving the past behind and for marveling at the glory that is you.
  
Why?  

Because every breath, every action, every experience, every kiss, every heartbeat has been building up to this point.  You have been on the bottom, the top and everything in between.  You have persevered through challenges.  You have hit high marks and landed on soft ground.  

You could have never achieved all that you have done without going through exactly what you have been through—it’s all been grist for the mill.  You are so remarkable and so beautifully YOU.  No matter how far you may have fallen, the Universe/Spirit has been there to lift you to higher and higher places.  How high do you want to climb?  How far will you reach?  It’s all possible.

Revel in the delight.  Taste the sweetness that is, in fact, your life.  You are more wonderful than you realize.  May your day be as glorious as you are!

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Poetry Plus

Only Breath
-- Rumi

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu
Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion

or cultural system. I am not from the East
or the West, not out of the ocean or up 

from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not
composed of elements at all. I do not exist, 

am not an entity in this world or in the next,
did not descend from Adam and Eve or any 

origin story. My place is placeless, a trace
of the traceless. Neither body or soul. 

I belong to the beloved, have seen the two
worlds as one and that one call to and know, 

first, last, outer, inner, only that
breath breathing human being.

Did You Know?

  • Kathleen Casey of Philadelphia was born at 12:00:01 A.M., Eastern time, on January 1st, 1946. This not only made her the first child born in the United States that year, but also made her the first "Baby Boomer."

  • In what countries are people most likely to help a stranger? In a 2010 survey, Liberia and Sierra Leone were #1 and #2.

  • Frank Sinatra was frustrated with his record company in 1960, so he formed his own label, Reprise Records. Many of his buddies (Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.) released records on Reprise, which is why they often referred to Frank as the Chairman of the Board.

  • Woodrow Wilson's first name was Thomas. Woodrow was actually his middle name.

WE CAN!!!!

A song to fill your heart, and some inspiration from children...Of course!

In 2012, the students at École Puntledge Park Elementary School in Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada completed a self directed project called "I Can" with the goal of making the world a better place. The project was so powerful that the teachers and staff decided to make "I Can" the school's theme for 2013, and adopted Jesse Ruben's, "We Can" as their song. This inspirational video captures Jesse's life-changing visit to the students in this small valley on Vancouver Island. - See more at: http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=3813#sthash.mBy0Z7gd.dpuf

Music by Jesse Ruben.

Video from KarmaTube

Here Are the Books On Our Bedside Table

What are you reading?  Check out these wonderful titles.  (By the way, some of these "on our bedside table" are actually on our Kindles and Nooks, and other reading devices!  What a world we live in, huh?  Simply amazing!)
Check out other favorites (and former "bedside table books") at Our Favorites!
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. 
When we are afraid, we pull back from life. 
When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer 
with passion, excitement, and acceptance. 
We need to learn to love ourselves first, 
in all our glory and our imperfections. 
If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open 
to our ability to love others or our potential to create. 
Evolution and all hopes for a better world 
rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision 
of people who embrace life.
-- John Lennon
I've tried
to become someone else for a while,
only to discover that he, too, was me.
-- Stephen Dunn
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves 
to recognize how good things really are. 
― Marianne Williamson
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
― Emily Dickinson
Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door.
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems

A Word About Books On THD

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We will be shifting to Amazon's Affiliate Program within the next week.  Until then, we hope you'll try out Barnes and Noble.  (We have supported them because they are still and bricks and mortar store, which makes it easier to browse.  There's nothing like flipping through the pages of a book to find a good read!)