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I got life, mother
I got laughs, sister
I got headaches and toothaches
And bad times too
Like you

I got my hair, I got my head,
I got my brains, I got my ears,
I got my eyes, I got my nose,
I got my mouth, I got my teeth,
I got my tongue, I got my chin,
I got my neck, I got my tits,
I got my heart, I got my soul,
I got my back, I got my ass,
I got my arms, I got my hands,
I got my fingers, got my legs,
I got my feet, I got my toes,
I got my liver and my blood

I got life, mother
I got laughs, sister
I got freedom, brother
I got good times, good time man
I got crazy ways, daughter
I got million-dollar charm, cousin
I got headaches and toothaches
And bad times too
Like you

I got my hair, I got my head,
I got my brains, I got my ears,
I got my eyes, I got my nose,
I got my mouth, I got my teeth,
I got my tongue, I got my chin,
I got my neck, I got my tits,
I got my heart, I got my soul,
I got my back, I got my ass,
I got my arms, I got my hands,
I got my fingers, got my legs,
I got my feet, I got my toes,
I got my liver and my blood

Got my guts
Got my muscles
I got life, life, life, life
Life !

Etter framkomst rusla eg meg ned til kapellet her, nede ved vatnet. Ein ledig krok i hjørnet ved sakristitrappa på nedsida. Fjellet rett i mot, rett opp, fjellsida utover mot Bråtveit. Fosse-sus lenger innanfrå. Berre vere stille her. Skapar og skapning.

Skal innleie til samtale på ei kveldsamling no. Godt å vere framme. Undervegs.

In making our homes a sanctuary, Rachel Anne suggested making a list of things we could do in 5, 10, or 15 minute pockets of time to make our homes and lives more livable.

Out of that, as happens with a lot of suggestions I come across, I've come up with a list of ways to strengthen your marriage and encourage your wife or husband in 5, 10, or 15 minute intervals on those days when you don't have a lot of time to give. Soon, you'll find that some of these items will serve to enhance your marriage on a regular basis and be a great lead-in to those times that you can devote more time and energy to one another.

So, without further ado ...

• Take a walk around the block together
• Take a few extra minutes to set the table with the "good" dishes and maybe flowers and candles, even if you are serving macaroni and cheese to your husband and kids
• Call her in the middle of the day just to say "I love you"
• Write a note to your in-laws to let them know how glad you are to be married to their son/daughter
• Ask "What can I do to help?"
• Get up 15 minutes early to prepare breakfast and serve it in bed
• Watch the sunrise or sunset together
• Post a positive blog about your husband and send the link to him
• Come up with a small thing that will make him laugh and feel loved at the same time
• Ask her about her day and listen intently to her answer
• Rub his shoulders
• Call the florist and have flowers delivered to your wife
• Enjoy a quickie
• Rub her feet
• Call your wife and ask her out for a date
• Prepare a healthy snack to share while watching TV
• Apologize
• Spruce yourself up a little before you meet again at the end of the day
• Keep the kids busy for a few minutes to give your wife 15 minutes to herself
• Connect over a cup of coffee or tea
• Choose one item on your honey-do list and complete it
• Call a friend to tell him or her something great your husband or wife has done - and do it when he/she can conveniently overhear you
• Mix up a batch of brownies
• Pick up the latest book from his favorite author and set it by his plate
• Make your own list of 15 minute marriage enhancers

There is no end to what you can do to encourage your spouse in 15 minute intervals once you start thinking about it. Feel free to use my list or come up with a list of your own, but I encourage you to make wise use of your time and invest in your marriage with every free minute you have.
Yours for the celebration of marriage,

Claudia

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Again a thought
For tossed mind

Even if one thinks forward
Or behind
One's laying in the present
whatever the bind

Today never dines
before tomorrow
And yesterday
Was fine, though
It is passed and shown

What a statement
of the obvious
A thought
For tossed mind
Needless onus
In too many corpus

The time you spend
Reaching an eternity prime
It has rolled on to another one
But still now in the meantime

Carpe diem
Is a non-ending story
Elapsing all wisemen's theory
Again a thought
For tossed mind
Longtime crime
For the brainy

Mae Linat © 2008

The first key to living your dreams is to believe them possible and to foster utter faith in yourself.  You'll find that the crazier your dream, the more likely your friends and family are to think that you will fail, while strangers would be incredibly supportive.

That's interesting information to have but it doesn't matter.  Know thy dream and cultivate the fortitude to bring that dream to reality, regardless of whether others approve or disapprove.

What is the second key?

Action

Most people think the second key is research but it isn't.  I am not saying that planning and research are not important to creating your new life, but that it should not be the second action you take.  If you begin to 'plan' and 'research' before you have taken any action, then the planning is simply a more kinesthetic way of indulging the fantasy of your dream.

Take action first.  Then  begin your research and planning.

It doesn't have to be a big action, just a powerful one that sets your intention.  Update your resume.  Talk with your Beloved.  Join an organization related to your goal.  Connect with people who are already doing what you wish to be doing.

Then get to planning to goal setting.

Why don't we take action first?

• Because we think we have to know the how.
• Because we want to plan the entire journey, step-by-step.
• Because we are waiting for someone else to take an action that will jumpstart our dream.
• Because we are waiting for someone else to make us an authority.
• Because we think that creating a to-do list is an action.

Don't wait for anyone else. 

Start now. 

Start today. 

I've started with a website, a CraigsList post, a "Hire Me!" page.  It's that simple.

I worried that I didn't have a degree or certification to do what I want to do.  "No one will take me seriously!"  I thought I needed someone else's approval to begin.  But the truth of the matter is that both you and I know that a degree, a certification, doesn't make a master. 

What makes a master is someone who has mastered.  What have you mastered?  What ability do you have absolute faith in?  What have you created for yourself?

I know plenty of people who grabbed a certification to become a realtor, a financial planner, a degree and license for counseling married couples.  But are these people living authentically?  Are they practicing what they preach?

You can never be inspired by those who present philosophy.  What is inspiring, how you will inspire, is by living and being the truth in practice of such ideas, so that the principles you espouse are no longer philosophy but conviction.

Who is taking action?

Derek of iWillNotDie kicked off his fundraiser.  Sean of WriterDad began writing (we)e-books.  Kip de Moll is a phenemonal book editor and is ready for more!  Lindsey of EmphaticAsterisk is writing a book on Homosexuality and Christianity.  SanityFound is getting the heck out of South Africa.  Dreemwhrld is engaged in total immersion traveling.  Mssc54 has adopted two beautiful children.  Connie is rocking her 50th birthday.  Marlajayne is writing a book.  Cory of aGoodHusband has expanded his passion for fully integrating men in HusbandsandDads.  Corey of SimpleMarriage has expanded his message to a whole new medium.

You?

Ein skikkeleg petimeterjobb! Slit! Undervegs tastar vi feil og slettar litt, men gyv laus igjen. Og no er det gjort! I morgon gjenstår litt skriving (ein heil del, faktisk) - før eg fredag set meg på Haukeli-ekspressen (buss) og reiser mot Røldal, Nes og Sauda der det skal vere lokale Kulturdagar samt gudsteneste på sundag. Så retur til Oslo og så til Roma. Så her må vi verkeleg leggje til: Deo volente; om Gud vil! Etter sju siders bibliografi m.m. seier eg: God natt!

Give me a crew of 160 people, and I get to know most of them. Total strangers? Not afraid to chat them up (Unless they're a hot guy, but really can you blame me on that one? I guess you can; I get so intimidated sometimes...). I could schmooze all day. I like to entertain, and laugh, and cheer people up. So, I wonder whether or not my escaping the reality of daily transactions is due to exhaustion from performing, or because I am not allowed (or allowing myself) to perform enough. I'll be honest that I find making people laugh to be quite energizing, so what part of me feels like I need a break from it? What part of me has me thinking that I don't enjoy people, when really I do?

I think that it may be part of my "training." Society doesn't want people who just chat and cajole all the time! No, dammit! They want workers! (Hey! I work hard! I just talk a lot, too. "Work first then slack" is my motto...) I remember this first became an issue in Grade 1. My teacher was the appropriately named Mrs. Savage, and she hated children. I think it was mostly precocious young girls that found her ire, because Jackie, one of the neighbourhood girls I used to hang out with (and another bright child), also got the brunt of her mockery and subtle mental torture.

Basically, I got labelled as a "social butterfly" and was forced to sit all by myself in a darkened corner of the classroom. In my loneliness, I would desperately try to talk to anyone who had to visit the classroom sink, usually older kids getting things for the overhead projector unit, and then get in trouble for it.

Mrs. Savage then decided that I was being anti-social. Back then I was upset, but now, I'm like "Really?" because I'm pretty sure you stuck me in a corner, and told me not to talk to anyone.

After that, she decided that I was a mental retard, so we had I.Q. tests performed. Lo and behold! Danielle could read at a Grade 3 level, and was in no way behind her age group in any other think-y areas. It just went on and on; I wasn't the only student that got the brunt of her mad (literally!) teaching skillz.

I used to feign sickness to get out of school; I totally got busted, because, well, 6 year olds aren't the most tricksy people in the world (it was the "magical" recovery time, I'm thinking, I shouldn't have recovered as soon as I was off school property, damn).

Anyways, I wasn't necessarily encouraged to be social in any of my endeavours. My friends had to live next door for me to visit them for play dates. School was for learning, not social galas. And really looking back at my upbringing, parental and otherwise, and I am astounded that I ended up with any social skills at all. I know I got taught manners straight out of the gate, but making friends, and the like? Dad sat in front of the telly all the time and Mom sat in front of a book all the time. I'm lucky it sort of comes naturally to me, because I am not sure that it is the same for all people (true comic/sci-fi geeks, anyone?).

Hmmm, I kind of wandered off my original topic, which, in my mind's eye, had more to do with Mary Poppins, because today is the hallowed occasion of Dame Julie Andrews' birthday!

I've already mentioned that I love children's movies, "Labyrinth" and "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" being two favourites, but who could resist the sugary sweet stylings of Mary Poppins? The movie was all about not hiding in fear (my original segue, butchered now, you have my apologies), but about embracing life in all it's random glory. Dick Van Dyke singing "Chim-chim-cher-ee" in his mournful way was entrancing to me as a child, as much as the joyful park romp "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." I think everyone can probably sing along to "Let's Go Fly a Kite," which is a rousing anthem for seizing the day.

I want to be Mary Poppins.

I think that some people would prefer to just know her, but I would love to be as savvy, smart, patient, and strong as the imaginary Nanny. I can't picture anyone else playing her but Dame Julie Andrews, and somehow by proxy, I suppose this means that I would love to be her as well. If you look at her life, it is about overcoming obstacles and grace under fire. Who wouldn't want to cultivate a little DJA in their lives? I'm going to start right now!

Mrs. Savage certainly could have used some grace and love. After all, how can you be so cheap about being loving, if you're not greedily hoarding what "little" loving you think you're receiving-even I could tell you that's not how love works, silly!

Oh, and Happy B-day Dame Julie Andrews! With best wishes from us for many more!

I had planned to post another day of one of the 30 Day Challenges today, but thought it was time for a break - and time to offer something to those of you who aren't doing the challenges (see 30 Day Challenges in the sidebar if you are interested).

I woke up in the middle of night, which seems to be normal for me these days, and realized that today is not only the first day of October, but it's also the first Wednesday of the month - the day our city tests the emergency sirens, the day I started, months ago, writing a post entitled What If ... that I had every intention of writing every first Wednesday of the month but somehow forgot about when warm weather came and the closed windows blocked out the siren's cry.

But enough history.

One of the comments I get a lot is that my outlook on marriage is positive, an outlook we don't hear much these days.  In light of that, I wanted this What If post to be positive as well.

As I was looking for what if statements that might have already been posted somewhere, Google, in its most helpful way, offered a few suggestions that I wasn't aware of.  One of them is this song by Melissa Lawson.  The lyrics are uplifting and they help me think about the good that can come from today, not the bad.

What if every day you looked for it all to go right and not to go wrong?  How would your life be different?
 

What If It All Goes Right, by Melissa Lawson

what if that road that you're taking's a dead end
What if love leaves you all jaded and broken
what if that limb breaks you're climbing out on
yeah, what if it all goes wrong

But, what if it all goes right
what if it all works out
what if the stars line up
and good luck rains down
what if you chase your dreams
and it changes your whole life
Yeah, what if it all goes right

What if that road is a beautiful slow drive
what if that love ends up lasting a life time
what if that limb holds you, oak tree strong
what if this time nothing goes wrong

what if it all goes right
what if it all works out
what if the stars line up
and good luck rains down
what if you chase your dreams
and it changes your whole life
Yeah, what if it all goes right

what if you climb to the mountain top
and touch the sky
grab a cloud as it passes by
you might fall you might fall
but then again you might fly

what if it all goes right
what if it all works out
what if the stars line up
and good luck rains down
what if you chase your dreams
and it changes your whole life
Yeah, what if it all goes right

Yours for the celebration of marriage,

Claudia

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Speculaţii despre despărţirea dintre cei doi au fost multe în ultima perioadă. Zvonul a fost confirmat de Andreea Raicu. Tudor Chirilă în schimb nu a răspuns la telefon. Nici pe blogul lui nu apare nimic. (paranteză- Şmecheria acum este să termini relaţia atunci când eşti întrebat de ziariştii de la cancan? Asta înseamnă să fii un om ocupat, să nu ai timp nici să îţi închei oficial socotelile...)

Frânturile relevante din declaraţia smulsă de reporter de pe buzele Andreei Raicu:

Ne-am despartit si atat... cum ti-am spus. Am avut o discutie civilizata, matura, asumata si eu sunt foarte fericita cu aceasta decizie

Cum Andreea e o tipă care vrea să fie în tendinţe a preluat şi ea modelul despărţirilor "civilizate" gen Miahela şi Elan. Doar nu era să o copieze pe Ana Maria Ferenţ care a spus şi cui nu a vrut să ştie de certurile cu fostul ei soţ. Erau lucruri mai plăcute şi mai utile de aflat... Comparaţia e  întâmplătoare, am vrut cel mult să dau un contraexemplu, şi ca persoană, şi ca situaţie. O stimez pe Andreea Raicu.

[...]eu imi doresc o relatie profunda si temeinica. Eu mi-am dorit totdeauna si imi doresc, in continuare, un copil. El are alte planuri individuale, asa incat mi s-a parut mai intelept sa ne separam destinele

Andreea Raicu a recunoscut în repetate rânduri că îşi doreşte un copil iar în ultimul timp lucrurile s-au precipitat destul de mult în această direcţie: renunţarea la fumat, vizitele destul de dese la ginecolog (se pare că nu erau doar cerneală pentru umplut paginile cu poze supradimensionate). Tudor nu a manifestat acelaşi interes. Mai mult decât atât, cred că insistenţa fostei sale iubite pe această temă chiar l-a speriat. (Să fie oare spiritul specific Vama Veche (staţiunea) - carpe diem (trăieşte clipa)? ...hehe...)

Bărbaţii au acest obicei enervant, cei care nu s-au maturizat suficient mai bine zis. Propoziţii precum "Pot să-mi las periuţa de dinţi la tine?"; "Vreau să fiu aleasa ta (by Andra...)" şi "Ceasul meu biologic a început să ticăie" au acelaşi efect cu a trage cu praştia către un stol de vrăbiuţe. Cele mai multe îşi iau zborul. Femeile foarte tinere îşi mai permit să îmblânzească "bestia" cu vorbă bună şi cu multă răbdare dar cele care nu vor să ajungă la 40 de ani fără să fi întemeiat o familie trebuie să pună "biciul" pe animalul confuz, să-l privească direct în ochi şi să evalueze dacă sunt sau nu şanse să-l aducă acolo unde vrea ea, acolo unde ar trebui de fapt toate relaţiile serioase să ajungă.

Pierderea unei persoane care a însemnat enorm pentru ea poate că a grăbit lucrurile, astfel de momente te fac să îţi reevaluezi întreaga viaţă, confruntarea cu moartea lasă răni adânci şi de multe ori dorim să grăbim cicatrizarea lor printr-o direcţie mai bună în care să meargă existenţa noastră privilegiată ...prin simplul fapt că noi putem să conjugăm verbul "a fi" la persoana I iar alţii... nu.

Pentru un conflict ai nevoie de doua parti. Eu nu sunt un om conflictual, asa incat scenele la care te referi au avut un singur protagonist in trecut. Iar viitorul meu, il exclude

Aceasta este de departe cea mai interesantă dintre declaraţii. Cu subtilitate şi fineţe, Andrea Raicu ne spune că el era cel cu gura mare, că el punea paie pe foc, că el isca cearta cu alte cuvinte. Faptul că imediat după aceea răspunde că acum "e liniştită" la întrebarea "dacă este tristă" confirmă acest lucru (Nu, nu am descoperit roata, dar unii pur şi simplu nu pot să citească printre rândurile unui discurs elegant).

Eu una nu am avut sentimentul de "linişte" decât atunci când legături foarte zbuciumate s-au sfârşit. Dar la fiecare e diferit. Important e că relaţia respectivă îi făcea rău şi că s-a debarasat de ea. Iar pentru cine se întreba ce se va întâmpla cu acea casă despre care toată lumea spunea că va fi căminul LOR, ei bine, va rămâne la Andreea, din simplul motiv că ea a proiectat-o, ea a finanţat-o şi se pare că NUMAI EA avea de gând să locuiască acolo. Mai relevant este faptul că a dărâmat un castel poleit cu aur dar cu încăperi friguroase şi neprimitoare, iar pentru noi s-a mai dărâmat un mit.

Of the 16 (29 out of 2288 as of 12:30pm on 9/3/08) folks who gave it an Oh, No! rating, the few that commented mostly said that the acting was poor, the Christian message was offensive, and the firefighters never fight a fire.

I'm not a professional movie reviewer, but my husband and I, the couple we went with, and the overwhelming majority of people who were in the packed theater enjoyed it as well.

Yes, I've seen better acting, but the movie was nonetheless enjoyable.  The message - never leave your partner - came across loud and clear, and the light moments interjected by the neighbors and the fellow firefighters were quite humorous.

It is true that there was one house fire and one car accident to which the firefighters attended, but the movie isn't about firefighting per se.  It is about holding a marriage together when only one partner has any interest in doing so.

Yes, there is an overriding Christian theme and numerous referrals to the Love Dare, but anyone who knew anything about the move beforehand knew that going in.  These themes are clear in every one of the trailers and advertisements that I've seen for this movie.

Overall, I enjoyed the movie and will recommend it to anyone who is married or thinking about getting married.  No, I will not trick them into seeing it as one angry Oh, No! reviewer noted happened to him.  Evidently, his friends tried to use it as a tool to expose him to Christianity, and he was offended by that.

If you invite non-Christian friends, tell them the overriding themes of the movie.  Don't try to trick them.  That will only serve to upset them and maybe turn them off even more if they are offended by the "trick."

For those of you want to learn more about working on your marriage

• Get a free pdf of my 30 Day Wife Encouragement Challenge by emailing me at claudia @ theanniversaryshop.com (be sure to remove the spaces around @ intended to fool spammers)
• Follow the 30 Day Wife Encouragement Challenge or the 30 Day Husband Encouragement Challenge posted here regularly
• Check out some of the books that my husband and I have found useful over the years
• Get further resources from the makers and partners of Fireproof
• Attend a marriage conference (see an abbreviated list in the sidebar)
• Find a counselor in your area who can help you and your spouse work through your problems
• Seek the counsel of a trusted friend or relative

Marriage is worth fighting for - even if you are fighting for it alone.
Yours for the celebration of marriage,

Claudia

For a couple more reviews, visit pluggedinonline.com and Good News Daily.

Eg må då presentere min god ven, Dag Tofteng, www.tofteng.no, proff gitarist og også god på data; han har hjelpt meg med noko av det tekniske her. Så no sit eg på kjøkkenet til han og kona, Siri, etter messa i St Dominikus, der dei begge går trufast og også syng i ein liten schola (kor) under messene. Etter nettopp å ha feira rund fødselsdag , må eg berre seie: Nest etter Gud er vener den største av gåvene i livet! Deo gratias!

Si am inceput sa radem ca niste isterici dupa ce am epuizat subiectul. Au fost cateva ceasuri bune in care nu am fost prezenti deloc.

Cum mama dracului sa muncesti ca lumea daca mintea iti este prin nu stiu care club sau pe nu stiu care plaja sau prin nu stiu cate decoltee bronzate!?

Cum dracu vrei sa rezolvi probleme daca nu ti-e mintea la ele?

Dar hai sa dam munca si problemele la o parte din schema asta. Hai sa ne gandim la ce putem face noi ca sa ne simtim bine sau hai sa ne gandim mai degraba la tot ceea ce nu facem!

Nu-i asa ca ti-ar placea sa fii pe o plaja in Bahamas, inconjurat de cine vrei tu in bikini? TZEAPA! Din pacate esti aici si mori de ciuda!

Nu ti-ar placea sa fii in biroul tau separat, intr-o companie tare si intr-o super-functie? Sa suni secretara si sa-i ceri o cafea in timp ce faci relaxat revista presei? IAR TZEAPA! Esti intr-un birou cu alti 10 insi, esti intr-o masina care nu iti mai place, esti blocat in trafic, iar seful urla la tine si te cheama la birou!

Om bun! Singurul loc din lume unde esti este AICI. Trezeste-te si gandeste-te: unde poti fi fericit? AICI sau la mama dracului unde ti-e mintea? Unde poti fi trist sau deprimat? Nu tot AICI?

So, get real… Incearca sa iti constientizezi pozitia fizica. Unde esti de fapt? Cum stai? Ce este in jurul tau? Cum poti folosi totul in favoarea ta? Cum poti stoarce tot ce e mai bun posibil din acest loc? Miorlaindu-te toata ziua ca nu iti place? No way!!!

Noi facem adesea una din cele mai mari erori de pozitionare: daca nu ne simtim bine acolo unde suntem, incepem sa halucinam catre zone de confort. Partea proasta este ca mintea noastra va resimti si mai puternic disconfortul la revenire. Ca odata si odata tot ne trezeste cineva. Si pierdem timp pretios in care ne-am putea gandi la solutii.

O alta mare eroare este aceea de a nu trai in prezent. Ne sabotam experientele curente prin a ne raporta la trecut sau la un viitor incert. Stiti voi principiul ala de discutie: “inainte era mai bine”, ”pe vremea mea fetele erau mai serioase”…etc. Stam si ne lamentam inutil cand laptele e deja varsat!

Sau ne facem griji cu privire la eventuale dezastre; stiti povestea cu drobul de sare, nu? Iti faci griji despre un cutremur prezis de Mama-Omida si daca are dreptate scorpia, in loc sa mori linistit pe neasteptate, ai o saptamana de preview din cauza propriei prostii. Iar daca nemernica se inseala tu ramai cu o saptamana de toata cacaua in care te gandesti cum o sa-ti cada caramizile in cap la cutremur. Oricare ar fi adevarul, tot prost iesi din afacerea asta.

Si mai e o capcana. Cea a viitorului: lasa ca muncesc acum cat sunt tanar si pot, mai tarziu o sa ma retrag si o sa calatoresc si o sa ma odihnesc si o sa stau cu copiii. Si in timp ce vorbesti despre asta, BUF, a dat o masina peste tine si esti muci, iti canta popa “Stalpii” la cap, super-hit!

Are rost sa traiesti in afara prezentului? Cand poti fi fericit? ACUM. Cand poti fi deprimat si trist? Tot ACUM.

ACUM este singurul moment in care poti face alegeri, iar AICI este singurul loc unde poti sa o faci. Principiul acesta iti poate simplifica enorm viata.

Eeeeeei, dar de ce sa fim asa de fixisti?

Poti profita de trecutul tau in multe feluri. De exemplu ai putea face un recensamant al greselilor si ai putea apoi sa te concentrezi ca sa nu le repeti. E pacat sa repeti greselile cand sunt altele noi de facut. JOS CU MONOTONIA! Un om destept zicea ca daca nu inveti nimic din greselile tale, atunci nu are niciun rost sa le mai faci. Corect?

Sau poti accesa, de exemplu, amintirile tale placute pentru a te reincarca cu energie pozitiva atunci cand simti nevoia, nu?

Iar cu viitorul este la fel de frumos daca nu pici in capcanele grijilor inutile: poti visa lucruri frumoase si iti poti face planuri concrete ca sa iti implinesti visele.

Oricum, un lucru e sigur pe lumea asta: numai tu poti alege unde si cand vrei sa traiesti!

Carpe diem si mai vorbim noi (in viitor, nu?).

Acest articol a fost scris cu ocazia conferintei anuale Training 08, evenimentul de training general, de HR, vanzari si e-learning cel mai complex al anului.

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Publications, Endorsements, Honors

Publications

Growth Point, social and therapeutic journal, Summer Edition 2007, Thrive, The Geoffrey Udall Centre, Beech Hill Reading RG7 2AT email info@thrive.org.uk My Journey thus Far

Brain Injury Association of Texas newsletter, Summer Edition 2007, Austin, Texas email info@biatx.org, My Journey thus Far

In Touch, newsletter, Summer Edition 2007, Westminster, Colorado, email Elaine@ImAlreadyHome.com

The Brain Injury Handbook, Rehab UK, September 2007, 62a, Peach Street Wokingham Berkshire, RG40 1XH email ninahillier@rehabuk.org

Transformation Times, October and November issues. Transformation Times is a mini-magazine, serving men and women of the armed services and their families and is published by Operation Life Transformed. My articles are listed under , Traumatic Brain Injury and Activities of Daily Living with in the mini-magazine. You can access the mini-magazine through http://lifetransformed.org/Documents/Oct_T_times_final_(3)[1].pdf . Operation Life Transformed can be contacted through contactus@lifetransformed.org

Note: Operation Life Transformed has also been recently accepted into the Department of Defense, America Supports You Program, the ultimate resource for finding homefront groups that support the military and their families.

European Brain Injury Society, E.B.I.S Newsletter Automne 2007 http://www.ebissociety.org/automn/newsletter-angl.htm http://www.ebissociety.org/ Rue de Londres, 17 - 1050 Bruxelles - Belgique My Journey thus Far

Brain Injury Association of Niagara, Newsletter January 2008 http://www.niagara.com/bian/default.htm , Traumatic Brain Injury and Displaced Energy

Virginia Commonwealth University’s Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Neuropsychology http://www.tbi.pmr.vcu.edu/ , My Journey thus Far, TBI Today Volume 6 Issue I — winter 2008 issue News, Ideas and Resources from the Virginia TBI Model System

Synapse — The Official Journal of the Brain Injury Associations of Australia — Winter 2008 ISSN 1448-9856  www.braininjury.org.au , Traumatic Brain Injury and Life

Site Meter — Second Chance to Live selected Featured Site of the Month August 2008 — http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=SECONDCHANCETOLIVE , Interview

Brain Injury Association of Niagara, Newsletter September & October ‘08 http://www.niagara.com/bian/ , Traumatic Brain Injury and Resilience

Endorsements

Hinds Feet Farm

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 2842, Street Address: 14625 Black Farms Road Huntersville, NC, 28070-2842 Office (704) 992-1424 Fax (704) 992-1423 www.HindsFeetFarm.org

Spring, 2008

To Whom It May Concern:

This open letter endorses the powerful message Mr. Craig Phillips, MRC, BA, eloquently writes about as creator and author of the website, Second Chance to Live, (http://secondchancetolive.wordpress.com/), and speaks about as an advocate and motivational speaker for people living with brain injury. Hinds’ Feet Farm is thankful that Mr. Phillips is part of our innovative, post-rehabilitation, community-based, day program as a contributing educator to our community.

The Hinds’ Feet Farm Day Program is a paradigm shift from the traditional medical, treatment, model for people living with brain injury, to a model that embraces a holistic health and wellness orientation, empowering members toward occupation and meaning in life post injury. Hinds’ Feet Farm is a person-centered, member empowered, self-determined, free choice, conceptualized and driven program. Members are self governing through the fluidity of the program by self-designing opportunities to engage in reestablishing and empowering occupation. Program staff, family and professional caregivers, in-kind community volunteers and student interns are guides for members in opportunities for exploration, discovery, confidence and self-esteem in their new identity and meaning in life post-injury.

Hinds’ Feet Farm initially invited Mr. Phillips to be a one time, guest speaker at our program. However, after hearing his message of hope and inspiration, members of our brain injury community wanted to hear more of how they too could embrace a second chance to live. With the driving force of triumph and celebration of the human spirit post brain injury, Mr. Phillips joins us monthly to share his life’s wisdom. Mr. Phillips’ is a peer mentor and life coach cheering our members on towards greater life fulfillment.

Mr. Phillips has a unique role in the local brain injury community of North Carolina and internationally, as a person living with a brain injury and as a professional in the rehabilitation counseling field. He knows first hand the brain injury continuum of care both as a survivor, and as a “thrivor”. My Phillips experience, strength and hope as a traumatic brain injury survivor and a masters level rehabilitation counselor enables him to immediately identify with both survivors and professionals simultaneously.

Mr. Phillips tailors each of his monthly session to our community’s needs and based on his blog postings, such as The Flight of the Butterfly, Traumatic Brain Injury and Isolation, What is my Destiny?. Mr. Phillips invites the members of our brain injury community toward a greater quality of life and their own second chance to live through well formatted presentations, opportunities for introspection to rediscovering one’s mission and vision in life through meaning and purpose, employing professional counseling skills, harnessing the power of group dynamics and process. Ever sensitive to and conscientious of his audience, Mr. Phillips welcomes the immediacy of feedback and lively dialogue. Mr. Phillips’ heartfelt message is masterfully crafted, awakens his audience to “carpe diem,” to pursue our dreams, and to live life to the fullest.

Hinds’ Feet Farm endorses and appreciates Mr. Phillips’ message that invites and empowers persons living with brain injury toward their own health and balance in their life journey. We are thankful for our reciprocal relationship with Mr. Phillips. Thank you Craig!

Please feel free to contact me if I can be of further assistance.

Sincerely,

Martin B. Foil III, CBIS
Executive Director

William P. DeGrauw, MS, CRC, CCM, CBIS
Day Program Director

Brain Injury Association of Niagara

Normandy Resource Centre, 111 Church Street
St. Catharines, Ontario L2R 3C9
Phone: 905 984-5058 Fax: 905 984-5354
Website: niagara.com/bian Email: bianstaf@niagara.com

September 4, 2008

Craig J. Phillips

Subject: Second Chance to Live

As program director for The Brain Injury Association of Niagara, one of my responsibilities is to serve as facilitator for the peer groups for individuals who have sustained an acquired brain injury.

We appreciate your expressed consent to allow us to share a selection of the articles in your Second Chance to Live blog with our participants.

Craig you personify not only what it is like for individuals who have sustained brain injury, but more importantly, to strive to be the best you can be, and make the most of your talents and gifts that you so generously share through the process of reciprocity…….by giving back so others may learn………families, caregivers, and especially providing enlightenment for those individuals who have sustained brain injury, who may identify, learn and gain wisdom from your insightful writing. It is important for us to promote awareness about brain injury as this does not resonate with the general public, unless it has touched their lives on a personal basis, as opposed to the topic of cancer, or diabetes for example.

You serve as a beacon to show the way……….reminding us that we do have control over the choices that we make…how we choose to act as oppose to react, maintaining a positive attitude and “by” not being limited by our circumstances or situation but encouraging us to look at our possibilities. Living life one day at a time and applying these strategies become an integral component in order for us to continue to moving forward in our personal journey post injury and that there is life after brain injury with many possibilities yet to unfold.

Your inspirational blog provides opportunities for others to abstract and apply some of these positive messages in their daily lives, and we hope that you will continue to share your messages of hope and encouragement by inspiring others to strive to new levels of achievement by turning adversity into opportunity! While we cannot change the direction of the wind, we can adjust our sails to meet the winds of change. Craig you remind us that those who weather change best are those who choose to embrace and adapt to it. Your inspirational messages continue to inspire others to chart their own course.

Kindest personal regards,

Pat Dracup, Program Director

Honors

Second Chance to Live — Selected SiteMeter.com Featured Site of August 2008

Hello and welcome back to Second Chance to Live my friends. A little over 1 year ago I was extremely fortunate to be able to establish a rapport with Site Meter — the world wide renown stat counter. During the past year I have maintained contact with the staff at Site Meter. Approximately 1 month ago — after Second Chance to Live had been published through out the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia — I decided to contact Site Meter. The purpose of making contact with Site Meter at this time was to ask that they share Second Chance to Live with anyone who might benefit from my message of hope.

Several weeks went by and then I received an email from Site Meter. The email asked if I would be interested in having Second Chance to Live featured with in Site Meter’s newsletter and as their Featured Site of the Month. As you might imagine I was both thrilled and honored to be given such an awesome opportunity. My answer was YES. My contact at Site Meter asked me to complete a written interview to introduce Second Chance to Live to the Site Meter community. The written interview was completed earlier this week and my contact at Site Meter told me that Site Meter would be updating their web site and sending out their newsletter later this week.

When I arrived home this evening and checked my email, I received word from Site Meter that their web site had been updated to include Second Chance to Live as their Featured Site of the Month. The interview that I completed has also been added and posted on Site Meter’s Web Site. The web address for that interview can be accessed through this link: http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=SECONDCHANCETOLIVE/. Site Meter will be releasing their newsletter — which will introduce Second Chance to Live and my interview to the members of the Site Meter community world wide beginning tomorrow morning July 31.

Thank you so very much Site Meter for selecting Second Chance to Live to be your Featured Site of August 2008. I am both honored and humbled by your kindness.

All material presented on Second Chance to Live is copyright and cannot be copied, reproduced, or distributed in any way without the express, written consent of Craig J. Phillips, MRC, BA

       Unii oameni îşi măsoară viaţa în ani, alţii în experienţe şi amintiri, eu îi estimez valoarea în cutii. Nu am crezut niciodată că îmi va păsa cât de puţin că părăsesc Suceava. Timp de un an nu am avut alt gând în cap şi acum în ajunul plecării la facultate, simt un nod în stomac şi o frică teribilă [nu de nou, ci de vechi; teama că s-ar putea să îmi fie dor, până la regret]. Am împachetat absolut tot ce a însemnat al meu din casă, şi ea a mea. 19 ani de viaţă devin 8 cutii, 3 valize şi o cameră încuiată cu cheie. Nu ai trăit cu adevărat până nu ai umplut cutii de carton cu amintiri, până nu te-ai mutat din casa în care ai copilărit, până nu ai părăsit copilăria. Poate că sună absurd [tind să exagerez zilele astea], dar şi în liceu [dacă nu şi în facultate] încă mai copilăreşti.

       Momentan ştiu doar că trebuie să plec, că plec şi gata. Destinaţie necunoscută [expresie care sună mai bine pe muzică decât pe viu], timp limitat, greutăţi pe suflet şi în bagaje, despărţiri de tot. Nevoie de noroc, speranţe de bine, îmbărbătare de sine, succes! [pentru mine şi pentru cei care în perioada asta pleacă de acasă, hai prieteni să o facem şi pe asta, carpe diem!]