Hi all, it is Sunday in beautiful Laguna Beach, California.
I was thinking about my life, about you who visit my website on Living in Courage. BE HAPPY flooded my mind. Try this fun way to have a better week. Start on Sunday every week and make the decision to be happy all week. Choose one thing each day to concentrate on without distraction. Maybe Monday you compliment people on their smile, kindness, courage, grace, patience, attitude, etc. Tuesday can be a day of gratitude – all day remind yourself to be grateful for everything in your life. Wednesday you could call a friend or family member to connect. Thursday do something for another out of the kindness of your heart. It could change their day or their direction in life. Never forget the impact you can have in another persons life. Friday do something fun to celebrate your great week and to pat yourself on the back for all your accomplishments. Saturday, have a self-indulgent day for just you or a day with he family or friends. Sunday, start the whole process over and please relax – it’s Happy Sunday.
Andy Dooley is just plain fun. This image represents the 2008 Olympics in Beijing to me. Olympic athletes visualize the end result and give their sport heart, soul, blood, sweat and tears. These athletes carry courage and dedication in every step they take, some become heroes. Encouragement is part of life for athletes and a quality we would be wise to hold close in our daily lives.
Aye Aye Win won the”Courage in Journalism” award for her job reporting on Burma while under military scrutiny. This award is annually presented to women in journalism who “show extraordinary strength of character and integrity while reporting news under dangerous or difficult circumstances.”
Aye Aye was under constant surveillance, her house staked out by Burmese authorities and her phones also tapped. Aye Aye used disguises to move around when needed, and showed a great amount of courage while reporting under very difficult situations.
On Oct 16, 2008 in Los Angeles as well as Oct 21, in New York - the awards for “Courage in Journalism” will be presented. Aye Aye Win, along with Fraida Nekzad from Afganistan and Sevjul Uludag from Cyprus will all be presented with this well deserved prize.
Living in Courage Online would like to congratulate these amazing women for their strength of character, their efforts in the strive for freedom and their amazing courage in the face of adversity and challenge. Thank you for making this world a better place to live and showing the strength of women around the world.
As I sit here pondering Courage and Love, I have to ask some questions about love. What kind of love do we indulge in? Love that is scintillating, ecstatic in its newness and grows like the sands of time. Love that leaves you sad, empty, lonely, jealous or grieving. All human love is based on positive and negative. Then I began to think about a different kind of love. An all encompassing pure, true love that is the essence of who we are when we are not in duality (positive or negative).
This kind of love can seem impossible to acquire, yet it exists in each one of us. It seems to me that we are all one mind, one heart that has fragmented into thousands, millions of languages and skin color. Yet we are all one, all connected. People around the world talk about the connection we all have with each other.
In situations of your life, whether you are trying to create, accomplish, correct, start new, leave behind, overcome or anything you can throw out there, it seems that there is so much resistance acting. When there is not enough love, resistance acts. I am not talking about human love, I am talking about a love that is our core..that we have been disconnected with as a human race. This love holds the Unity of Light ( masculine, the mind) and Love (feminine, the heart) and holds all the powers of the Universe. It has intelligence, will, power and everything in it. There is not one thing missing. Have you thought about this? I really want to anchor some key ideas about this and let it integrate deep into the soul, the heart, where love is.
Love loves to fulfill, to make things happen. It is part of the Earth, a force that gives life to everything. My best thinking tells me that when we disconnect from the mass collective consciousness of fear, there is a much higher consciousness to tap into. When you tap into pure love, one of the effects is that the mass consciousness has less power over your mind, feelings and body. We all want miracles in our lives, where are they going to come from? Can you carry a different kind of love?. Are you ready for it? I know I am. There is a better way. Use the courage you came into this world with and make some powerful decisions about how you want to live your life. Love or Fear. You have free will and you get to choose. Our free will is what sets us apart from other life forms on earth.
There is a magnetic force in the atmosphere that assists us to manifest. This magnetic force is compromised because of the free will people have used for good and evil. Our energy is tapped, we get tired, sometimes the clarity is not there. When we move towards pure love that is timeless and selfless, there is this great storehouse of love waiting to broadcast out to the world, bringing into reality our purpose for this life on earth. I wish you great success in your life’s journey.
Tom Lamb has courage and a purpose – the nation’s endangered great panda population at China’s Wolong Nature Reserve. This was a home to to a large population of the endangered pandas.
On May 12th 2008, hundreds of Chinese school children were killed in a devastating earthquake. The panda reserve was a few miles away from the epicenter of the quake. The reserve was preparing for some new modern construction for the breeding center, when the quake hit. Many existing buildings were compromised as well. Lamb said it will take at least 2 years to rebuild the villages and buildings at Wolong, as the Quing and Tibetan people who resided throughout the reserve lost virtually everything. For more information, please visit www.uscef.org. The panda’s natural habitat is threatened now from the earthquake and outside influences.
Tom Lamb is a Laguna Beach resident and multi faceted photographer. Being into preservation, Lamb is the vice president of USCEF. This is a non-profit, non governmental, environmental agency in China that is largely responsible for the Wolong Giant Panda Nature Reserve and Breeding Center, which is virtually now unreachable by car or plane. Major destruction from the earthquake has destroyed roads leading in. To learn more about the projects and how to become involved in helping the panda’s, visit the site and give your support.
Nike pushes forth with what it is calling the largest campaign in the brand’s history. Based around the Olympics in Beijing, Nike debut a new global spot called “Courage,” continue to promote the Nike Hyperdunk shoe and launch the “Human Race” event.
Maya Angelou says ” A mentor is a rainbow in the clouds.” Be someone’s rainbow today.
It doesn’t take much effort to give someone a lift or some encouragement. One of the best effects is how it makes you feel when you support another person when they need it. What a wonderful way to live in courage and encourage others to do the same. I hope you enjoy this video. Maya Angelou is a true mentor to all.
I was reading my daily dose of Early to Rise and found this post to be of interest. Some of the items are new to me, but learning about our world, especially nature, is the best. I love monarch butterflies. Which is your favorite?
It’s Fun to Know: The 8 New Natural Wonders of the World
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has added eight new entries to its World Heritage List, which denotes cultural and natural sites that are deemed of value to humanity. The new entries join 878 sites in 145 countries.
1. Joggins Fossil Cliffs (Canada) – site of a plethora of fossilized animal and plant remains
2. Mount Sanqingshan National Park (China) – home of unusual granite formations
3. Lagoons of New Caledonia (France) – a system of reefs with tremendous coral and animal diversity
4. Surtsey (Iceland) – an island created by volcanic eruption in the 1960s
5. Saryarka (Kazakhstan) – a vast grassland that’s home to several endangered species
6. Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve (Mexico) – the winter home of this migrating insect
7. Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona (Switzerland) – valued by scientists for its geologic features
8. Socotra Archipelago (Yemen) – known as the Galapagos Islands of the Indian Ocean for its plant and animal diversity
The Olympics are officially here. The opening ceremony was spectacular. There will be many stories of courage during the Olympics, which will be featured here at Living in Courage. May the 2008 Olympics be a time and place for people to come together in peace.
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