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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

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One Line Is All I GOT – Belladonna’s Flashlight

How you do one thing is how you do everything!

Commitment is the key to success in your fitness journey. If you’re only half doing something, then why do it at all? Let’s apply this concept to exercising and committing fully to our goals.

So often, people want to lose weight, and around the holidays and the first of the year, the number of “dieters” is insane. And more often than not, they do very minimal and expect BIG BODY CHANGES. 

It’s crucial to remember that significant body changes require more than minimal effort. But here’s the empowering part: you have the power to make those changes with considerable effort. You are in control of your fitness journey, and your efforts will yield the results you desire.

Put your heart and soul into everything you do, and if you can’t do that, then ask yourself, “Why am I doing this?”

How you do one thing is how you do EVERYTHING!

Let this concept inspire and motivate you in your fitness journey.

You could have chosen any blog to read, but you chose mine, and I’m honored!

Source: One Line Is All I GOT – Belladonna’s Flashlight

A Meaningful Story for Children and Adults – « Amazon Rainforest Magic, The adventures of Namowë, a Yanomami boy » – For ages 8 to 12 to 100!  – …

« Amazon Rainforest Magic describes the journey of a Yanomami boy through the Amazon rainforest to find a cure for his sick baby sister. He …

A Meaningful Story for Children and Adults – « Amazon Rainforest Magic, The adventures of Namowë, a Yanomami boy » – For ages 8 to 12 to 100!  – …

RFK Jr. Compared Trump to Hilter in Unearthed Audio

What do Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance have in common? They both called Donald Trump a Nazi before groveling at his feet for their own political advancement.

According to audio obtained by CNN’s KFile of Kennedy during his time as a host of the radio show “Ring of Fire,” in 2016 Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services compared Trump to authoritarians like Adolf Hitler, and lauded critiques calling his supporters “belligerent idiots” and comparing them to “outright Nazis.”

In one 2016 episode, during which he interviewed journalist Matt Taibbi, Kennedy heaped praise on his guest for his description of Trump’s base.

“One of the things that you write so beautifully, and your stuff is so fun to read, but you write about Trump, ‘The way that you build a truly vicious nationalist movement is to wed a relatively small core of belligerent idiots to a much larger group of opportunists and spineless fellow travelers whose primary function is to turn a blind eye to things,’” Kennedy said, quoting Taibbi’s writing. “‘We may not have that many outright Nazis in America, but we have plenty of cowards and bootlickers, and once those fleshy dominoes start tumbling into the Trump camp, the game is up.’”

Source: RFK Jr. Compared Trump to Hilter in Unearthed Audio

Food Play + Jokey Animals + Esther Chilton’s X-Naughty Tortie – Happiness Between Tails by da-AL

A turtle made out of a mushroom eats spinach. Food art by Khashayar Parsi.
No animals harmed here.

“Don’t play with your food!” When’s the last time you heard that? My passion is writing (click here for more about my books), so I’m especially lucky that my husband’s passion is cooking. His food-play fills our home with delicious aromas and fills our tummies with healthy dishes. (Click here and click here for some of his many food shares. Type “recipes” into the search bar for more.) On weekends, his beautiful brunches often include mushrooms. Myself a pescatarian animal lover, his food art can border on being too adorably realistic to eat. This critter’s mixed some melted cheese into mouthfuls of leafy greens…

Another turtle made out of a mushroom eats spinach. Food art by Khashayar Parsi.
None harmed here either.

Jokes and general play are the rainbows. Joy and friendship are the resulting pots of gold. Even many of our fellow beings can’t resist doing it. Our sorely missed tabby cat often snagged open Khashayar’s rattan bureau drawers, flung clothes onto the floor, then dashed out of our bedroom in delight! For sure, squirrels can’t get enough of hee-hee-taunting our dog, who saves her laughs for when we play hide-and-seek.

Do dome-shaped vegetarian tortoises and sleek omnivore turtles play? Since I dunno — here’s the next best thing…

Today’s guest blog post, a UK blogger/writer/editor/tutor/cat-fancier Esther Chilton knows her tortoiseshell cat is up to something….

Photo of writer/blogger/editor/tutor/cat-fancier Esther Chilton Esther Chilton and her multi-colored tortoiseshell cat at her desk.
Writer/blogger/editor/tutor/cat-fancier Esther Chilton Esther Chilton works alongside her home office clown, Lexi.

My Very Naughty Tortie by Esther Chilton

I’d heard of the saying ‘Naughty tortie’ and, to be honest, I wasn’t sure there was actually anything in it. True, I hadn’t ever had a tortoiseshell before, but I’d had cats my entire life and they’d all had very different personalities, from cuddly, to standoffish, to mischievous. 

So, when I adopted Lexi, a tortoiseshell kitten, from a cat shelter ten years ago, I was excited and looked forward to welcoming her home. I wasn’t worried by the tag attached to her markings. But little did I know I’d adopted a kitten with ‘tortitude’ – in buckets.

I already had a couple of other cats which meant I needed to keep Lexi away from them to begin with and introduce them steadily. I thought it would be a good idea to set Lexi up in my loft conversion, where I slept. I could then make sure she was okay.  

As I settled down to bed that night, Lexi scrambled up and snuggled up with me. Oh, how sweet, I thought. By the next morning, bleary-eyed through lack of sleep, I was beginning to think very differently. I know kittens like to play, and I made sure she had plenty of toys and spent time with her, but Lexi came alive at night. She thought it great fun to sneak under the covers and pounce on my legs, arms, toes – any part of me she could. And, if she wasn’t attacking me with her needle-sharp claws, she was licking me. Not the best way to be woken up! 

I hoped this was a phase – one that wouldn’t last long. It wasn’t, so I ended up leaving her in the loft overnight and sleeping downstairs. 

I like a cat with character and, as the months went on, it was soon apparent Lexi was a larger-than-life character. She doesn’t like being shut out of any rooms in the house. She clearly thinks she has a right to go where she pleases. If a door is shut, she’ll scrape away at the door (peeling the paintwork off) and/or tug at the carpet (pulling up tufts or a corner of the carpet itself), until she is let in. If I intervene if I don’t want her in a particular room, and try to distract her, she’ll turn to me and give me a right mouthful, just like a petulant teenager, then return to her task. 

Her favourite thing in the whole world is dry cat biscuits. She has one pouch of wet food in the morning and one in the early evening, then biscuits before bed. Though Lexi’s bedtime is a little different to mine. She thinks she should be given biscuits at 7pm and lets me know by pulling at the cupboard door where they are kept. If I don’t give in, she’ll keep on at the door, or me, making it very clear she’s starving and needs her biscuits. 

When I lived near my mum, if I went on holiday, she would look after the cats instead of them going into a cattery. One particular time when I was away, I received a frantic call from her to say she thought the house had been broken into. My heart was in my mouth. I asked Mum what had been taken. 

“Well, I can’t see that anything has gone,” she said. “But all the drawers in your chest of drawers upstairs have been pulled open and the clothes are all over the floor.”  

“It’s alright, Mum, it’s just Lexi,” I said. I’d forgotten to warn her that Lexi thinks it’s terrific fun to pull drawers open and yank all the clothes out.

Although she’s cheeky, I wouldn’t want it any other way. I adore my feisty tortie and she really is the most caring girl. She always knows when I’m not feeling good, or if I’m upset, and she’ll cuddle up to me, placing her paw on my arm as if to say, “It’s going to be okay.”

And, at least life is never dull with Lexi around!

Does your pet play tricks on you?

 

Source: Food Play + Jokey Animals + Esther Chilton’s X-Naughty Tortie – Happiness Between Tails by da-AL

A diferença entre dieta e reeducação alimentar é um tema muito relevante e que provoca confusão em muitas pessoas

De maneira geral, a dieta é frequentemente vista como um plano restritivo que tem como objetivo a perda de peso em um curto espaço de tempo, enquanto…

A diferença entre dieta e reeducação alimentar é um tema muito relevante e que provoca confusão em muitas pessoas

Eindrücke von verschiedenen Reisen in den USA – Senioren um die Welt

Die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, die USA, sind ein sehr großes und abwechslungsreiches Land, das für jeden Besucher etwas zu bieten hat. Aufgrund der riesigen Ausmaße ist die Landschaft außerordentlich vielfältig, auch was die Menschen und die Kultur anbetrifft. Es zu jeder Jahreszeit sehr interessant, sich einiges von diesem ungewöhnlichen Land anzusehen.

Grand Canyon Nordseite

 

Mesa Arch im Arches NP

Green River vor dem Zusammenfluss mit dem Colorado River (Canyonlands)

 

 

 

Einer der schönsten National Parks den USA ist der Arches NP mit den Steinbögen, die ihm den Namen gegeben haben…

Source: Eindrücke von verschiedenen Reisen in den USA – Senioren um die Welt

RFK Jr sexual assault accuser says she chose to speak out after Super Bowl ad | Trump administration | The Guardian

Cooney initially told Vanity Fair about how she went to work for Kennedy in 1998, when she was 23 and he was a 45-year-old environmental attorney. Describing a series of unwanted advances, she said Kennedy ultimately “came up behind her … and began groping her, putting his hands on her hips and sliding them up along her rib cage and breasts”, before being interrupted by someone walking into the room.

In July, it was widely reported that Kennedy sent a text to Cooney after the Vanity Fair story was published.

He wrote: “I read your description of an episode in which I touched you in an unwanted manner. I have no memory of this incident but I apologize sincerely for anything I ever did that made you feel uncomfortable or anything I did or said that offended you or hurt your feelings. I never intended you any harm. If I hurt you, it was inadvertent. I feel badly for doing so.”

Cooney told USA Today: “I don’t know if it’s an apology if you say, ‘I don’t remember.’ In the context of all his public appearances, it seemed a little bit – it didn’t match. It was like a throwaway.”

Source: RFK Jr sexual assault accuser says she chose to speak out after Super Bowl ad | Trump administration | The Guardian