by Tonya Hurley
Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
And if I should die before I awake,
I pray the popular attend my wake.
Words hurt, heal, motivate, and aggravate. They are powerful. They control emotions and can even control a person physically.
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As part of its fifth annual Pegasus Awards, the Poetry Foundation has selected Mary Ann Hoberman as Children’s Poet Laureate. Hoberman inherits the two-year position, which comes with a $25,000 prize, from Jack Prelutsky. The purpose of the award is to raise awareness of poetry among children. Hoberman received the honor at an awards ceremony earlier this week in Chicago. “Generations of readers who first discovered poetry in the books of Mary Ann Hoberman remember it not as a dry textbook encounter but as a moment of joyous play,” said John Barr, president of the Poetry Foundation, in announcing Hoberman’s appointment. “Her poems tease young minds even as they please young ears with rhythm and rhyme.” |
Inspired by 25 Skills Every Man Should Know, I pondered a list of the 25 essential skills every public speaker should have. How did I do?
Every public speaker should be able to:
... the article continues here - great reading (as usual)
"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."
-- Henry David Thoreau
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For years self-help gurus have taught about The Law of Attraction - the idea that you can get what you want simply by creating a clear mental picture of what you desire and using your imagination to see it with your mind's eye. It all sounds very tempting doesn't it - but is there really any such thing as the Law of Attraction? Well, I would like to share with you a little about my own experience learning about and then using this principle. The Law of Attraction
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes
by Mem Fox,
Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury
Mem Fox has done it again!!
As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes. . . . And here, from two of the most gifted picture-book creators of our time, is a celebration of baby fingers, baby toes, and the joy they—and the babies they belong to—bring to everyone, everywhere, all over the world
Will you complete this year's resolutions?
Did you complete last year's?
Wouldn't it be nice if life came with an instruction book that told us how to overcome this problem?
Well - guess what? It does and you are looking at the solution in this innovative online course.
"Can you imagine what would happen if for just one moment, with every fibre of your being, you allowed yourself to believe that you can have life exactly as you choose to have it? ... Until today, you may have limited, edited or restricted your thoughts about the good things that could happen in your life. Just for today, allow yourself to be totally involved with just one good thought. Give yourself permission to get your entire being involved. Then watch to see what happens."
- Tyanla Vansant
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| Many Harry fans came to the read-a-thon in costume. |
On September 1, 1998, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was released in the U.S. Since it was the first book of the series, no one was eagerly anticipating its release, as they did for the more recent installments, so there was no fanfare. Now that the book has been out for 10 years and has sold over 120 million copies, Scholastic decided to celebrate the aniversary with an all-day read-a-thon at its headquarters in Manhattan. Hundreds of Harry Potter fans sat in J.K. Rowling’s throne (the one she read from at Radio City) and read, bit by bit, the entire book over the course of the day, as thousands more fans watched via a live webcast from home or school. read more
