Saturday Morning TV…If You Dare…

Television captures (literally) the audience so commercials can convenience the viewer to buy products. Not sure who coined the phrase “electronic baby sitter” but the phrase fits today’s media. Just think about how this has even morphed itself into DVD players built into cars so the kids in the back seat can be ‘entertained.’ Parenting did not get easier with electronics – just more complicated.

Humoring the Goddess

Have you watched Saturday morning TV lately?
In a while?
Ever?

Saturday morning television (and, I’m sure, Sunday through Friday too), is not quite what it used to be in the olden days. Since my grandkids have lived with me, I’ve seen weird talking sponges, bunnies and squirrels using cell phones, human families with wild superpowers, princesses and pirates, and idiotic starfish, to name a few.

Now, I don’t expect it to be much like when I was a kid. With the ease of computers, poppy music, and an overabundance of adorable, obnoxious, little kid actors and actresses, it’s not hard to put together a half hour of babble. There is money to be made in morning TV land, and somewhere there must be a study that says to sell to kids you must be loud, colorful, hip, and overbearing.  It is a sugar-filled, rude, sassy, whirlwind trip through psychedelics…

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Four Points in Black and White

Are you in a rut? Are you struggling to achieve that target? Don’t get bummed out. My friend at Humoring the Goddess has great advice here.

Humoring the Goddess

Contrary to what philosophers and psychologists think, life is really black or white.

Success or failure.

You can’t “almost” win a football game. You can’t “almost” get published. You either win the game or you don’t. You either get published or you don’t.

Yes, there are ever-increasing varieties of gray and cadet blue floating around between the two, allowing us to find a comfortable medium, but the reality is, as my friend Yoda says, “Do or Do Not. There Is No Try.”

This kind of cold reality does little to boost waivering egos. From kindergarten soccer players to ACT test takers, the world’s pressure to be a winner vs. a loser makes the grey evening darker and more obtuse.

How, then, in this truly black and white world, do we find — and retain — a healthy dose of ego? Of self worth? We merely need to how to play…

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Deep Water

Another great post from our family to yours.

Throw Me A Life Ring

You know that feeling you get when it seems like you are not making progress? Are you filled with busyness and feel like you are on autopilot going in circles? My friend Alene has some good practical advice that can help you find rest.

http://www.positivelyalene.com/overboard/

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Faith

Faith is believing in the unseen. Hebrews 11:1 defines faith as “the is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”

I thought I would share this post about faith from one of my blog followers.

http://dreambigdreamoften.co/2015/06/08/im-just-keeping-the-faith/

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