Some days you just have to decide you are on top of the world, no matter what happens.
Practicing that ‘religion’ is often harder than it sounds.
For me, music is my motivation. Nothing turns my mind around than finding a song to take me to a better time and place. For some people its smell or images. Any song works. Somedays it’s heavy metal, some days it’s Rock 104, and some days it’s an old song which made your sister happy.
Keeping your mind out of the downturn path has its challenges. Its easier to continue on the path than jump out of it.
I recently noticed a friend needing a change. I simply said “move your furniture”. It’s true. Feng Shui can work, if you believe in it. I hoped I wouldn’t have to remind him not to get his hair cut (some advice article in Glamour as a teenager said “don’t do anything drastic” like cutting your hair when you are in a funky mood).
I decided to take my own advice. Last weekend I threw out my couch. My beloved couch. I stopped trying to find room for it, and just threw it out. I took back a bunch of crap I had been storing for some loser, went to goodwill with my ‘clothes which aren’t me’ and moved on.
This week has been challenging, but I know where that couch and 6 boxes and two bags are.. not on my mind. There’s plenty to replace it, but it made me realize there are more important things waiting like my children, my friends and my future.
Here’s to the week ahead: May your hair look good, your wine go down smooth, and your outlook be sunny.
I’m headed that way whether I want to or not. Sometimes you just have to tell yourself you are going there.
Join the Conservative Breakfast Club this coming Monday, August 25 in downtown Fort Wayne where there will be an important announcement from Republican Candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett, and Republican Candidate for Attorney General Greg Zoeller regarding a major public policy issue.
The Conservative Breakfast Club is their first stop on a two-day statewide media tour.
Monday 7:30 am August 25th
L’Asiatique (Formerly Park Place) in downtown Fort Wayne.
I would be remiss if I didn’t post the admirable (is that what I want to say?) acceptance of guilt by Judge Felts today, whom I wrote about previously.
And I didn’t write about it in order to slam anyone, just the irony behind a very well-known person who chastised thousands of DUI offenders daily.
Judge Felts became a member of the club he punishes and it isn’t a good place to be, in spite of all the well-known company who surrounds him.
But today, he entered a Plea of Guilty, and took responsibility. Mitch Harper at Fort Wayne Observed provides the details. The Judge who sentenced him provided an interesting statement to him, which I am sure he hasn’t uttered to many in front of him before:
“Judge Nelson told Felts he was one of the most honored judges in the state, and commended him for coming in and doing the right thing. He asked Judge Felts if he had anything to say, to which Felts replied that he accepted full responsibility for his actions. He also apologized.”
He could have fought it, since he knows every angle possible (as he has watched it for years in the courtroom), but instead he didn’t waste taxpayer money on a drawn out trial and endless embarrassment for the Allen County Courts, too.
It will probably save his career. It certainly didn’t hurt his reputation.
First day of school this year and my darling 4th Grader brought home the following paper entitled Consequences of Inappropriate Behavior:
Name on the Board: This is a warning. No consequences other than the name being on the board.
Check Mark: All students who have at least one check will have to sit with the teacher in the room during lunch. No talking, whatsoever, is allowed. If a student laughs or says one word, he will be given another day of silent lunch.
Two Check Marks: Students with two checks will have a silent lunch and lose recess. The students being punished stay in the room with the teacher.
Three Check Marks: With three check marks by their names, student will have a silent lunch, lose recess and receive Discipline Referral.
Four Check Marks: Students will have a silent lunch, lose recess, receive a Discipline Referral and a phone call is made home about the behavior problems they have had that day. A conference may be set up with the parents, student, and teacher.
Heaven help me if the following story would ever happen, but I sure as hell would expect my child to be treated with extreme care in this situation.
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Shortly after midnight, Fort Wayne police responded to a report of a stabbing at 4715 Lillie Street. When they arrived on the scene, they found a man lying on a mattress in a bedroom with a laceration on the right side of his lower abdomen. Lawrence King told them that he had been stabbed by his son. A woman at the home, Felicia Anderson, confirmed that her 12-year old son had indeed stabbed King. Anderson said her son had ran out of the house after the stabbing.
Police found the boy at a home in the 4800 block of Lillie Street. He told police that he got scared when King began choking his mom because she has a bad heart. The boy went and got his pocket knife and stabbed King to make him stop. He said King had been bullying everyone around all day and had choked and slapped him along with other kids that were in the home. The boy said when he saw King hurting his mom it reminded him of when his real dad used to hurt her.
King was taken to a local hospital for treatment of the stab wound.
The boy was taken to police headquarters for further questioning.
The media outlets reported the boy was still detained throughout the day, today.
I am about sick of the lengths the Prosecutor’s office will go to detain people who defend themselves, and care and coddle the criminals.
Children are near and dear to their parents. They should never have to witness violence against them, ever, let alone repeatedly.
I am angry. I called the urban enterprise group to take advantage of programs that they offer to my community. Guess what happened? I got the run around, was told to go to Workforce Development, was talked down to and basically told my resume was not good.
Also I am very disappointed that none of our leaders check these programs out to see what services they offer. If I really were a depressed person, I would have committed suicide.
Fort Wayne black leaders, we need to do better. I will follow up and find out why this person who talked to me has been in this position for so long and why no else has questioned her tone and the way she talks to people. Oh, I know why-because we have just gotten into the habit of saying “that’s the way it is.”
I am a strong black women and I will not settle for the treatment I received, even though they might think we are not worth taking the time for and we are stupid.
I am not the greatest writer or the smartest person but I do know we have a problem in Fort Wayne. All the people who are in jobs to help black folk are white.
I will follow up on this situation.
-Barbara Davis
1) Can you image if a ‘white’ person would have written this about any ‘black’ person and any of the Fort Wayne Newspapers published it?
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan has qualified to run as an independent against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in November’s general election.
San Francisco election officials on Monday said they have verified enough signatures of registered voters on Sheehan’s petitions.
Sheehan, whose oldest son was killed in Iraq, became a symbol of the anti-war movement when she began a vigil outside President Bush’s Texas ranch.
She says Pelosi has failed the country by refusing to cut off funding for the war after Democrats reclaimed the majority in the 2006 elections.
If you watched the Opening Ceremony on Friday night, chances are you said something like, “no way that’s possible” at least once. It turns out you were right.
London’s Telegraph newspaper reports that some of the fireworks which appeared over Beijing during the television broadcast of the Olympic Opening Ceremony were actually computer generated. But — hold on — it’s not necessarily as bad as you think.
The faked fireworks were actually set-off at the stadium, but because of potential dangers in filming the display live from a helicopter, viewers at home were shown a pre-recorded, computer-generated shot. It sounds dishonest, but I’m not sure it’s such a terrible thing.
The Opening Ceremony is, at its core, just one big performance. And isn’t it accepted that some things might not be legit at a performance? The final torch bearer wasn’t actually running around the top of the stadium, does the fact that everyone could figure that out make it any less? It might have been unnecessarily deceptive, but the firework-faking isn’t that big of a deal. But, if I found out that the lighted-drum thing wasn’t on the up and up, then we’ll have problems..
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First day of school this year and my darling 4th Grader brought home the following paper entitled Consequences of Inappropriate Behavior:
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If you watched the Opening Ceremony on Friday night, chances are you said something like, “no way that’s possible” at least once. It turns out you were right.
