Give your brain a break !! …item 4B.. “If” by Joni Mitchell …item 5.. How Much Blaming Should We Do? — “A person sees all wounds except his own.” (Jul 11th, 2012) …
Some cool where can i find short love poems images:
Give your brain a break !! …item 4B.. “If” by Joni Mitchell …item 5.. How Much Blaming Should We Do? — “A person sees all wounds except his own.” (Jul 11th, 2012) …
Image by marsmet543
We have a tendency to uphold our own self-images by blaming our problems on our surrounding circumstances. When things at work fall apart, it is our co-worker’s incompetence or slacking off; when our house is a mess it is our spouse’s fault; and when we are driving it’s always the other person cutting us off.
As our sages teach us, “A person sees all wounds except his own.” We like to see ourselves in the right and blame others for our failings.
……..***** All images are copyrighted by their respective authors …….
.
If you can keep your head…While all about you…People are losing theirs and blaming you…If you can trust yourself…When everybody doubts you…And make allowance for their doubting too.
.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
.
…..item 1A)… song lyrics … Elyrics.net … www.elyrics.net … Phil Collins … Everyday
www.elyrics.net/read/p/phil-collins-lyrics/everyday-lyric…
Everyday lyrics
I got lost, couldn’t find my way
And I guess there’s nothin’ more to say
Love can make you blind, make you act so strange
But I’m here and here I will stay
So everyday I cry
Yes everyday I fall
Do you ever wonder why, why I love everythin’ about you?
But everyday I say, "I’ll try to make my heart be still"
‘Til then every way there is to cry, ourselves to sleep we will
It picked me up, knocked me off my feet
I’ve got no way to explain
Still I love you, love you, love you but this fire inside
Will never see the light of day
So everyday goes by and everyday I fall
It makes me wonder why?
My life’s worth nothing without you
But everyday I say, "I’ll try to make my heart be still"
‘Cos every way there is to cry ourselves to sleep, we will
[ From: www.elyrics.net/read/p/phil-collins-lyrics/everyday-lyric… ]
You’ll never know, no, no, no ,no ,no
You’ll never know just how close we were
You’ll never know, no, no, no ,no ,no
You’ll never know
No you’ll never see
The book closes and we try to forget
But I know that things won’t change
How we feel, how life goes on
And that seems so strange
And so the light fades away
Try, try, try as I may
I can’t stop thinkin’ about you
It seems my life’s worth nothing without you
But everyday I say, "I’ll try to make my heart be still"
‘Til then every way there is to cry, ourselves to sleep we will
Everyday, everyday, you know I try so hard
Everyday, everyday, it gets a little harder
Everyday, everyday, you know I try so hard
Everyday, everyday, it gets a little harder
these lyrics are last corrected by zhongwenMike
.
.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
.
…..item 1B)… youtube video … Phil Collins – Everyday (LP Version) … 5:40 minutes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQpsXA36uq4&feature=relmfu
Uploaded by philcollins on May 17, 2010
THE NEW ALBUM IS NOW AVAILABLE ON iTUNES: www.smarturl.it/goingback
Phil Collins – Everyday (LP Version)
Official Website:
www.philcollins.com
Official Facebook:
www.facebook.com/philcollins
Official Twitter:
www.twitter.com/PhilCollinsFeed
Official MySpace:
www.myspace.com/philcollins
Category:
Music
Tags:
Phil Collins Everyday Video Phil Collin Official
License:
Standard YouTube License
.
.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
.
…..item 2)…. youtube video … The Three Stooges : Pardon My Scotch … 18:49 minutes
The Three Stooges : Pardon My Scotch
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLtkXENQrl8&feature=relmfu
Uploaded by Crackle on Jun 8, 2010
The Stooges are running the local drugstore and mix up a potion that a desperate businessman decides to sell as scotch.
Watch hundreds of free full-length streaming movies and TV shows on www.crackle.com
Crackle Twitter: twitter.com/crackledotcom
Minisode Twitter: twitter.com/MinisodeNetwork
Be a Facebook Fan! www.facebook.com/crackle
Tags: The three 3 stooges stoges moe howard curly curley joe shemp larry fine ted healy palma besser vaudeville nﾒyuk nyuk calling doctor episodes black white Watch Free Video Online Now Streaming Full-length Television Tv Show
Category:
Comedy Entertainment Classic TV
Starring:
Curly Howard Moe Howard Larry Fine Shemp Howard
Tags:
three stooges stoges moe howard curly curley joe shemp larry fine ted
License:
Standard YouTube License
.
.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
.
…..item 3)… aish.com … Jewlarious … Introducing jPhones
May 26, 2012 / 5 Sivan 5772
Think different… Very different.
www.aish.com/v/hu/50574392.html
A short Jewlarious film … 1:11 minutes
.
.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
.
…..item 4A… song lyrics … jonimitchell.com/music …
jonimitchell.com/music/song.cfm?id=311
If
by Joni Mitchell
If you can keep your head
While all about you
People are losing theirs and blaming you
If you can trust yourself
When everybody doubts you
And make allowance for their doubting too.
If you can wait
And not get tired of waiting
And when lied about
Stand tall
Don’t deal in lies
And when hated
Don’t give in to hating back
Don’t need to look so good
Don’t need to talk too wise.
If you can dream
And not make dreams your master
If you can think
And not make intellect your game
If you can meet
With triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same
If you can force your heart
And nerve and sinew
To serve you
After all of them are gone
And so hold on
When there is nothing in you
Nothing but the will
That’s telling you to hold on!
Hold on!
If you can bear to hear
The truth you’ve spoken
Twisted and misconstrued
By some smug fool
Or watch your life”s work
Torn apart and broken down
And still stoop to build again
With worn out tools.
If you can draw a crowd
And keep your virtue
Or walk with Kings
And keep the common touch
If neither enemies nor loving friends
Can hurt you
If everybody counts with you
But none too much.
If you can fill the journey
Of a minute
With sixty seconds worth of wonder and delight
Then
The Earth is yours
And Everything that’s in it
But more than that
I know
You’ll be alright
You’ll be alright.
Cause you’ve got the fight
You’ve got the insight
You’ve got the fight
You’ve got the insight
© 2007; Crazy Crow Music
.
.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
.
…..item 4B)…. youtube video … "If" by Joni Mitchell … 4:18 minutes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m78cSts3tJw&feature=related
Uploaded by journeyingrick on Apr 28, 2010
an interpretation of Joni Mitchell’s song "If," which she based on the classic poem by Rudyard Kipling. video loop by theworkofthepeople.com
Category:
Music
Tags:
joni mitchell rudyard kipling if shine
License:
Standard YouTube License
.
.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
.
…..item 5)…. ORTHODOX UNION … www.ou.org/life … Enhancing Jewish Life …
How Much Blaming Should We Do?
By Yakov Danishefsky | Jul 11th, 2012
www.ou.org/life/inspiration/self-critique-confidence-yako…
“Be careful on the road! I just heard on the news that there’s a crazy man driving the wrong way on the highway!” yelled the nervous woman into her phone. Her husband frantically responded, “What do you mean one man driving the wrong way?! Everyone here is driving the wrong way!”
.
…………………………………
img code photo … Be careful on the road!
www.ou.org/life/files/iStock_000013371714XSmall-300×199.jpg
…………………………………
.
We have a tendency to uphold our own self-images by blaming our problems on our surrounding circumstances. When things at work fall apart, it is our co-worker’s incompetence or slacking off; when our house is a mess it is our spouse’s fault; and when we are driving it’s always the other person cutting us off. As our sages teach us, “A person sees all wounds except his own.” We like to see ourselves in the right and blame others for our failings.
To be sure, this natural inclination is not entirely bad. It serves us well by protecting our ego and sense of self-worth. Seeing our shortcomings as products of exterior causes allows us to maintain our optimism and faith in ourselves. People who lack this skill often see themselves as deficient and fall prey to pessimism and depression. Dr. Martin Seligman, in his acclaimed book Learned Optimism, considers this ability to be one of the foremost ingredients to being a successful optimist and successful in life.
Nonetheless, we cannot allow this perspective to be our only view of life’s occurrences. We must balance it with a healthy sense of personal responsibility. Whether at work or at home, with friends, family, or fellow highway speedsters, our buttons are always being pushed. Qualities of patience, benefit of the doubt, courage, faith and others are of invaluable importance in all areas of life. If every time something happens it is someone else’s fault, we will never develop any of these virtues and we will never grow as individuals.
Frustrating and difficult situations are opportunities to turn inwards and see how we could have acted differently. By looking into ourselves, accepting a slight blow to our ego and letting our picturesque self-image falter just a little, we are able to locate areas of our character that could use some strengthening. When things at work go awry it is an opportunity to identify your role in the chain and see where you can improve, whether as a person or a professional. When things at home are tense and tempers are flaring, instead of blaming your children or spouse, take a moment to identity your piece in the puzzle.
It may be difficult to do this in the moment of frustration, but after all the dust settles, take a step back and think–would it have been helpful had I been less judgmental or more patient? What could have happened had I spoken in a softer tone or given an extra compliment? Would the office run smoother if I were more effective in balancing my workload by delegating and being more organized? These are the questions that bring about character development and growth. Excessive amounts of self-critique can be damaging, but a healthy diet of self-introspection can go a long way.
King Solomon, in his infinite wisdom, took this idea a step further. “As water reflects a face back to a face, so one’s heart is reflected back to him by another,” he said. In other words, “You are what you hate.” The blemishes a person sees in others are often a reflection of his own weaknesses. When you are in that moment of anger and frustration, blaming your co-worker for being lazy or your spouse for being moody, it is not enough to take responsibility; rather, it is imperative to realize that it is specifically the aspect you are most infuriated by that is most likely your own greatest flaw. While this is often very difficult to swallow, it can be used as a helpful tool to identifying the parts of our personality that need the most improvement.
The golden path is the path of equilibrium and balance, as Maimonides states. An overload of personal responsibility and blame leads to an unhealthy lack of self-confidence and can paralyze your ability to march on through the difficulties of failure. On the other hand, placing all shortcomings on other people and factors external to yourself disables a person from truly growing and developing respectable character. Real optimism means seeing the glass half full but still recognizing that there is a missing half that we can–and need–to fill. When you feel that everyone around you is driving the wrong way, it is time to realize that you yourself need to turn around.
SHARE
.
.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
.
.
Malayan tapir
Image by Egui_
Melbourne Zoo.
"Tapirs are large browsing mammals, roughly pig-like in shape, with short, prehensile trunks. They inhabit jungle and forest regions of South America, Central America, and Southeast Asia. All four species of tapir are classified as endangered or vulnerable. Their closest relatives are the other odd-toed ungulates, horses and rhinoceroses." – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapir
"The Malayan Tapir (Tapirus indicus), also called the Asian Tapir, is the largest of the four species of tapir and the only one native to Asia. The scientific name is somewhat misleading, as the Tapirus indicus is not native to India; the name refers rather to the East Indies.
The animal is easily identified by its markings, most notably the light-colored “saddle” which extends from its shoulders to its rump. The rest of its hair is black, except for the tips of its ears which, as with other tapirs, are rimmed with white. This pattern is for camouflage: the disrupted coloration makes it more difficult to recognize it as a tapir, and other animals may mistake it for a large rock rather than a form of prey when it is lying down to sleep." – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayan_Tapir
Stefan Seitz, who spent sixteen hundred hours (!) in front of tapir enclosures recording animal behaviour and visitor reactions, says that he recorded over 2,000 misidentifications of the animal by zoo-goers: "Across cultures and continents, when zoo-goers notice a tapir (Tapirus sp.), they are likely to misidentify it. This is not surprising. The tapir’s stocky body, short proboscis, and multi-hoofed feet make it look like `something between’ [an Asian myth says that the white-saddled Malayan tapir is a mixture of everything left over after the creation of the rest of the animals (Sanborn and Watkins, 1950)], and because people tend to categorise a new object in terms of what they already know, the tapir is often misclassified."
This is from a truly fascinating paper entitled "IN THE NAME OF THE TAPIR: CONFUSIONS AND CONCLUSIONS" found at www.zoonews.ws/IZN/300/Tapir.html.
Seitz ends his paper with this nifty little poem:
TAPIR:
not a common name,
though they deserve much wider fame;
so brace yourself for facts and features
on these snouting, squeaking creatures.
Kin they are to horse and rhino,
but have no mane or horn that I know
(except the lowland tapirs sport
a ridge of neck-hair, very short.)
Some can weigh eight hundred pounds.
All speak in clicks and whistling sounds.
The body’s stocky, with short tail,
which helps the tapir clear a trail
through dense, damp forests, tropically,
of Old and New World, topically.
And of their presence, these are proofs:
imprintings of all fourteen hoofs.
The short and splodgy trunk works well
for grabbing, touching, sniffing, smell.
This snout helps tapirs in the wood
to find and eat their favourite food:
enjoying all the night and day
soft leaves, sweet fruits, and grass, and hay.
In the water, tapirs thrive;
they swim quite well. They even dive!
We used to think that tapirs walked
alone, disliked each other, balked
at friendship, always stayed apart;
but now we find that, at the heart,
the tapir is a social beast
and goes by twos or threes, at least.
In thirteen months, a mom gives birth:
one offspring starts its life on earth.
The young have spots and stripes (how cute);
but as they grow, their colours mute,
except the Asian’s – he turns black
with one white saddle on his back.
With good teeth and nose and ears,
a tapir lives some thirty years,
except . . . well . . . they’re endangered. Man
will skin and eat them where he can,
but even worse, deforestation
means all tapirs in creation
die.
And so I write this paper:
Save the rainforests, save the tapir.
You didn’t know? It doesn’t matter.
Now you know the tapirs better!
The Barber Garden: Poppies
Image by bill barber
From my set entitled “Poppies”
www.flickr.com/photos/21861018@N00/sets/72157607186465572/
In my collection entitled “The Garden”
www.flickr.com/photos/21861018@N00/collections/7215760718…
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy
A poppy is any of a number of showy flowers, typically with one per stem, belonging to the poppy family. They include a number of attractive wildflower species with showy flowers found growing singularly or in large groups; many species are also grown in gardens. Those that are grown in gardens include large plants used in a mixed herbaceous border and small plants that are grown in rock or alpine gardens.
The flower color of poppy species include: white, pink, yellow, orange, red and blue; some have dark center markings. The species that have been cultivated for many years also include many other colors ranging from dark solid colors to soft pastel shades. The center of the flower has a whorl of stamens surrounded by a cup- or bowl-shaped collection of four to six petals. Prior to blooming, the petals are crumpled in bud, and as blooming finishes, the petals often lie flat before falling away.
Poppies have long been used as a symbol of both sleep and death: sleep because of the opium extracted from them, and death because of their (commonly) blood-red color. In Greco-Roman myths, poppies were used as offerings to the dead. Poppies are used as emblems on tombstones to symbolize eternal sleep. This aspect was used, fictionally, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to create magical poppy fields, dangerous because they caused those who passed through them to sleep forever.
A second meaning for the depiction and use of poppies in Greco-Roman myths is the symbolism of the bright scarlet colour as signifying the promise of resurrection after death.
The poppy of wartime remembrance is the red corn poppy, Papaver rhoeas. This poppy is a common weed in Europe and is found in many locations, including Flanders Fields. This is because the corn poppy was one of the only plants that grew on the battlefield. It thrives in disturbed soil, which was abundant on the battlefield due to intensive shelling. During the few weeks the plant blossomed, the battlefield was coloured blood red, not just from the red flower that grew in great numbers but also from the actual blood of the dead soldiers that lay scattered and untended to on the otherwise barren battlegrounds.
Thus the plant became a symbol for the dead World War I soldiers. In many Commonwealth countries and in the United States, artificial, paper or plastic versions of this poppy are worn to commemorate the sacrifice of veterans and civilians in World War I and other wars, during the weeks preceding Remembrance Day on November 11. It has been adopted as a symbol by The Royal British Legion in their Poppy Appeal.
In North America, poppies are known as Clown Shoes by the Royal Canadian Legion, who sell them each fall prior to Remembrance Day. The design of the Canadian poppy has changed recently. Formerly the poppy was red plastic with a felt lining with a green centre held on by a pin. The green was to represent the green fields of France. In 2002 the design was changed with some small controversy to a black centre. This is to reflect the actual colour of the French poppy.
In New Zealand and Australia, paper poppies are widely distributed by the Returned Services Association leading up to ANZAC day (April 25th).
The golden poppy, Eschscholzia californica, is the state flower of California.
Poppy is widely consumed in many parts of Central and Eastern Europe. The sugared, milled mature seeds are eaten with pasta, or they are boiled with milk and used as filling or topping on various kinds of sweet pastry.
Poppy seeds are widely used in Bengali cuisine, Oriya cuisine, German cuisine, Malabar Cuisine (Northern Kerala) and the Cuisine of Austria (Papaver somniferum).
In Mexico, Grupo Modelo, the makers of Corona beer, until the 1960s used red poppy flowers in its advertising, where almost any image it used had poppy flowers somewhere in the image.
Although the drug opium is produced by "milking" latex from the unripe fruits ("seed pods") rather than from the seeds, all parts of the plant can contain or carry the opium alkaloids, especially morphine and codeine. This means that eating foods (e.g., muffins) that contain poppy seeds can result in a false positive for opiates in a drug test.
This was considered "confirmed" by the presenters of the television program MythBusters. One participant, Adam Savage, who ate an entire loaf of poppy seed cake, tested positive for opiates just half an hour later. A second participant, Jamie Hyneman, who ate three poppy seed bagels, first tested positive two hours after eating. Both tested positive for the remainder of the day, but were clean eighteen hours later. The show Brainiac: Science Abuse also did experiments where a priest ate several poppy seed bagels and gave a sample, which also resulted in a false positive.
The results of this experiment are inconclusive, because a test was used with an opiate cutoff level of 300 ng/mL instead of the current SAMHSA recommended cutoff level used in the NIDA 5 test, which was raised from 300 ng/mL to 2,000 ng/mL in 1998 in order to avoid false positives from poppy seeds. However, according to an article published in the Medical Science Law Journal, after ingesting "a curry meal or two containing various amounts of washed seeds" where total morphine levels were in the range 58.4 to 62.2 µg/g seeds, the urinary morphine levels were found to range as high as 1.27 µg/mL (1,270 ng/mL) urine . Another article in the Journal of Forensic Science reports that concentration of morphine in some batches of seeds may be as high as 251 µg/g.[5] In both studies codeine was also present in the seeds in smaller concentrations. Therefore it is possible to cross the current standard 2,000 ng/mL limit of detection, depending on seed potency and quantity ingested. Some toxicology labs still continue to use a cutoff level of 300 ng/mL.
The sale of poppy seeds from Papaver somniferum is banned in Singapore due to the morphine content. Poppy seeds are also banned in Saudi Arabia due to various religious and drug control reasons.
What may be the most famous literary use of the poppy occurs both in L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and in MGM’s classic 1939 film based on the novel.
In the novel, while on their way to the Emerald City, Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion walk through a field of poppies, and the opium from the flowers puts both Dorothy and the Lion to sleep. The Scarecrow and the Tin Man, not being made of flesh and blood, are unaffected. They carry Dorothy to safety and place her on the ground beyond the poppy field. While they are considering how to help the Lion, a field mouse runs in front of them, fleeing a cougar. The Tin Man beheads the cougar with his axe, and the field mouse pledges her eternal gratitude. Being the Queen of the Field Mice, she gathers all her subjects together. The Tin Man cuts down several trees, and builds a wagon. The Lion is pushed onto it, and the mice pull the wagon safely out of the poppy field.
In the 1939 film, the sequence is considerably altered. The poppy field is conjured up by the Wicked Witch of the West, and it appears directly in front of the Emerald City, preventing the four travelers from reaching it. As in the novel, Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion fall asleep, but in a direct reversal of the book, the Scarecrow and the Tin Man are unable to carry Dorothy. Glinda, who has been watching over them, conjures up a snowfall which kills the poppies and enables Dorothy and the Lion to awaken. Unfortunately, the Tin Man has been weeping in despair, and the combination of his tears and the wet snow has caused him to rust. After he is oiled by Dorothy, the four skip happily toward the Emerald City.
In Baum’s other Oz books, Oz’s ruler, Princess Ozma, is often shown wearing poppies in her hair as decoration.
Poppies stand as a prominent feature of In Flanders Fields, one of the most frequently quoted English-language poems composed by front-line personnel during the First World War. It was written by John McCrae, a doctor serving in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, and appeared for the first time in Punch magazine on December 8, 1915.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders Fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders Fields.
– John McCrae
In Persian literature, red poppies, especially red corn poppy flowers, are considered the flower of love. They are often called the eternal lover flower.
Comments are closed.