Doing the same things over and over expecting different results is insanity. The only way to get different results is to change what we do. The process of change begins in our minds. Our thoughts help shape and create our circumstances in life. Living life abundantly is a continuous process of training and transforming our minds to achieve optimal living.
My name is Marenda. I started this blog with the intentions of expressing my thoughts, provoking thought, bridging gaps, and sparking conversation. The agenda is to entertain, educate, and empower. The goal is to inspire, encourage, and uplift. The mission is to Live Life Abundantly and to share the lifestyle with as many people as possible.
When kids (teenagers) listen to music are they listening to the lyrics, the beat, or both? Do they know the difference between entertainment and reality or are the lines blurred? Are kids (teenagers really affected by the music they listen too, and if so how?
This video attempts to answer these questions and more:
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Wow I didn’t know people still watched Fox News lol, I’m an MSNBC girl. I received this interesting email forward from my friend Leslie, calling for people to sign a petition to stop Fox from smearing Barack Obama and polluting the air waves with fear and racism. Check it out…
Subject: Update: FOX smears Obama
More than 428,000 people signed a petition telling FOX to stop their
racist and hate-filled smears against Barack Obama-thanks for signing! If
we hit half-a-million signatures, we can draw media attention and put
pressure on FOX’s advertisers.
Can you help us reach half-a-million by forwarding this email to 5 friends
today?
They can sign the petition-and watch a new video about FOX’s smears:by clicking here to Sign the petition
Dear MoveOn member,
Last week, we kicked off a campaign to stop FOX from launching racist and
hate-filled smears against Barack and Michelle Obama.
Good news: Over 428,000 people have signed a message protesting FOX.
That’s unprecedented-thanks for signing! Early next week, our partners at
ColorOfChange.org will hold a major event to deliver boxes and boxes of
petition signatures to FOX’s headquarters.
Other media outlets will be invited to cover this event. If we can deliver
half-a-million signatures, this becomes a much more powerful media story.
And when that happens, FOX’s advertisers will get the hint that it’s not a
good idea to associate their products with FOX’s hate-speech.
Can you help us get to half-a-million signatures by the time of the big
delivery next week by forwarding this message to 5 friends today? They can
just click here to sign:
https://pol.moveon.org/donate/foxsmears.html?rc=sn
The petition reads:
“FOX must stop injecting racism, prejudice, and fear
into our political dialogue. We intend to hold FOX, its advertisers, and
its personalities accountable for FOX’s attempts to smear the Obamas.”
You can let your friends know that FOX is shameless: In the last several
weeks alone, they’ve “confused” Obama’s name with Osama’s, referred to
Michelle as “Obama’s Baby Mama,” and called an affectionate fist bump by
Barack and Michelle a “terrorist fist jab.”1
This morning, Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Films launched a short video
called “FOX Attacks: Michelle Obama” showing some of the latest FOX smears
on the Obama family. You can see it on our petition page. Greenwald’s
previous videos documenting FOX’s smears on Barack Obama and the black
community have been seen millions of times on YouTube.2
If we reach half-a-million signatures, we can generate media coverage that
sends a message to FOX that their racist and hate-filled smears go over
the line-and put the heat on FOX advertisers as well. Can you help us
reach that goal by forwarding this email to 5 friends today? They can just
click here to sign the petition:
https://pol.moveon.org/donate/foxsmears.html?rc=sn
Thanks for all you do.
-Adam G., Peter, Anna, Justin, and the rest of the team
P.S. Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) has a new book out, and we thought
you might be interested. The Nation called Wexler the country’s “Most
Valuable Congressman,” and he’s stood with MoveOn on numerous causes, from
ending the war to stopping warrantless wiretapping in FISA. Now he’s
written Fire Breathing Liberal, a fascinating account of life as an
outspoken progressive in the House of Representatives. Says comedian
Stephen Colbert, “I enjoyed Congressman Wexler’s book even more than I
enjoy cocaine and prostitutes.”
You can check it out here:
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=3906&id=13182-7701928-2k0Eidx&t=1
You can also sign up for Wexler’s email list here:
http://www.wexlerforcongress.com/join.asp
Sources:
1. “Fox News Jokes About Killing Obama,” YouTube video posted May 25, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjYpkvcmog0
“Fox News’ E.D. Hill teased discussion of Obama dap: “A fist bump? A
pound? A terrorist fist jab?” Media Matters, June 6, 2008
http://mediamatters.org/items/200806060007?f=h_clips
“Fox News in trouble again over Obama smear: ‘baby mama,’” Los Angeles
Times, June 12, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=3855&id=13182-7701928-2k0Eidx&t=2
2. “Fox Attacks: Obama,” Brave New Films at FoxAttacks.com, February 2007
http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/573-fox-attacks-obama
“Fox Attacks: Black America,” Brave New Films at FoxAttacks.com, June 2007
http://foxattacks.com/blog/572-fox-attacks-black-america
“Fox Attacks: Obama, Part 2,” Brave New Films at FoxAttacks.com, March 2008 http://foxattacks.com/blog/32376-fox-attacks-obama-part-2
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Have you thought about returning to school or entering college for the first time but felt like you were too old? Who said school was just for the 21 and under crowd? Living Life Abundantly is stepping outside of your comfort zone, stepping up to challenges, and living outside of the boxes society tries to place us in.
Going back to school at 40+ may seem intimidating at first, but you are never too old to go back to school.
Nola Ochs graduated from Fort Hays State University with a degree in General studies when she was 95 years old. Mozelle Richardson graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma at age 90.
If they can do it, so can you. Returning to school is an opportunity to:
The more you know the more you grow, education is key to living life abundantly.
There are many programs and scholarships for non traditional students. My friend Stephanie sent a heads on the AARP Foundation Women’s Scholarship Program. For more information visit: http://www.aarpfoundationwlc.org
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There are certain things from childhood that just stay with you…When I was a kid, I went to summer camp at the YWCA, where I met all of these wonderful kids that I thought would be my lifetime friends.
We use to sing “That’s What Friends are For” and I guess I really took it to heart lol. Once we hit 5th and 6th grade we out grew the Y, went our separate ways, and lost contact with each other. So much for lifetime friendship right? Maybe not.
If Myspace isn’t good for anything else, its certainly good for reuniting long lost friends. Thanks to Myspace, I reconnected with Lisa!
Lisa and I went to the Y together and we had not seen each other in over twenty years…(that makes us sound so old omg)… We sent several messages back and forth and said lets meet up but we never did. You know how sometimes life gets in the way…
Anyway, we finally talked on Friday and decided to meet for lunch this Sunday 
On my way to meet Lisa, all of the songs we sang at camp came to mind. There was a song that we used to sing every morning in the “friendship circle”, called “It’s a Beautiful Day.” That song is etched in my brain forever… considering the weather and occasion the song was more than appropriate for today.
It goes a lil something like this:
See the sun shining in the window
it’s gonna be a beautiful day
can’t you hear the song birds singing
I want to sing out loud and say
it’s a beautiful day
for running in the sun
a beautiful day has just begun
a beautiful day
to do what I want to do
its a beautiful day just to be alive
it’s a beautiful day
so glad that I
got a beautiful day
and I want to share it with you
Lisa was there in the lobby we recognized each other right away. There were no awkward moments its like we somehow picked up where we left off in 1987. We laughed and talked and had so much fun. On my drive home I thought yup… It’s a Beautiful Day!
People come into your life for a Reason, a Season or a Lifetime.
When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person.
When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally, or spiritually.
They may seem like a godsend, and they are! They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part, or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end.
Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done.
The prayer you sent up has been answered, and now it is time to move on.
Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share, grow, or learn. They bring you an experience of peace, or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it! It is real! But, only for a season.
LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons: things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person, and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life.
It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.
—Reason Seaon Lifetime Author Unknown
Special Dedication to Lisa and all of our folks from the old West LA YWCA…
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My friend Shonda sent this to me, enjoy!
It’s been said that God first separated the salt water from the fresh, made dry land, planted a garden, made animals and fish… all before making a human. He made and provided what we’d need before we were born. These are best & more powerful when eaten raw.
We’re such slow learners…God left us a great clues as to what foods help what part of our body
A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye.. and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.
A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.
Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.
A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.
Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.
Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don’t have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.
Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today’s research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) mo nths to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of n utrition in each one of these foods (mo dern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).
Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.
Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actual ly bal ance the glycemic index of diabetics.
Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries
Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.
Onions look like the body’s cells. Today’s research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.
thanks for sharing this Shonda
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A few months ago I got an email about a mad man known as “The AIDS Man” who goes around intentionally infecting women with HIV. The email had a link to video , I clicked it and was deeply disturbed by what I saw and heard. This video is pretty intense but I’m posting it anyway so that you can see and hear it …
watch this video (warning extremely foul language)
After watching this I had a flood of thoughts and emotions. I wasn’t sure if this real. Who sleeps with that many women? Who knowingly infects people with HIV? Is this really what the world has come to? It just didn’t seem possible or plausible.
I was angered but at the same time I tried to find something positive (no pun intended). I concluded that perhaps this video would serve as a wake up call… or twisted public service announcement some how…
Then the other day I get a link to video of a woman saying that she’s pregnant by “The AIDS Man” also known as “Trash Man.” I thought omg this has to be a joke! I watched the video and to my surprise found it funny. This video is intense too. I’m posting it so that you can maybe see why I found it hilarious. I’ve been told that my sense of humor is warped but anyway…
watch this video (be advised extremely foul language)
After watching this video I couldn’t resist doing some research and I was relieved to find out that these videos were meant to be like Scared Straight PSA’s and no one was hurt, pregnant, or infected with HIV.
watch this video (warning extremely foul language)
The makers of these provocative videos were creatively making a point. They managed to piss a lot of people off and get the attention of many. I think they really made made some folks think! I knew there had to be a method to the madness.
Too many people are taking too many risks. Living Life Abundantly is realizing that your body is your temple. To live life abundantly you must not only recognize your body as your temple, but you must also value and respect life. Having unprotected sex with numerous sex partners is like having a death wish. Be safe or be sorry!
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Discussing sex and breaking down the birds and the bees is an uncomfortable matter for most parents. Its a tough conversation that must be had. If you haven’t had the talk yet, now is the time to get your spill together.
Kids are bombarded with sex and sexual imagery every day!
If your kid goes to school, listens to music, watches television, music videos, movies, reads magazines, and/or goes online (has a myspace profile), chances are… your kid is regularly exposed to sexually charged material.
We all know how impressionable kids are and how naive they can be, parents have a duty to teach and instruct their children in all matters of life, including sex. I’m not saying provide kids with detailed how to instructions!
The basic Who, What, When, Where, Why; conversation must be had. That same conversation should also touch on both the pleasure and dangers, as well as possible consequences and repercussions.
Because sex is so prominent in American culture, some kids seem to have a cavalier and reckless attitude about sex.
According to the CDC, “435,427 infants were born to mothers aged 15–19 years in 2006. More than 80% of these births were unintended.” This doesn’t even touch on sexually transmitted diseases.
When I was in high school the only pact girls were making… was NOT to get pregnant, now teenagers are supposedly making pacts to get pregnant!
I wonder how many teens are aware of the CDC’s findings that “teen mothers are less likely to complete high school and more likely to live in poverty than other teens.”
Its up to parents to make sure that their children are educated about sex, safe sex, abstinence, intimacy, relationships, and responsibilities.
Parents must get over the discomforts of discussing sex with their kids. Todays kids need accurate information to make responsible and well informed decisions. When parents establish open honest communication with their kids, it creates opportunities for:
Talk to your kids! Ask questions. Answer questions. Establish open communication before its too late! Having the dreaded sex talk empowers your child and can even protect them from not just unintended pregnancies or STD’s but also against sexual predators.
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