Experiencing deep grief and sorrow that have you in it’s grips? Time for Therapeutic Humor by a Jollytologist?

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What the heck is that?  Jollytologist?  How can therapeutic humor help me if I am feeling such deep pain?  Allen Klein is the World’s One and Only Jollytologist.  Have you heard of him?  Me neither until I interviewed him on my radio show.  Allen brings a lightness to the load in a life of struggle and sorrow so many are experiencing these days.  He has a true gift to light up a heart.

Allen and I spoke on my radio show about how death or illness can take two lives or more, the life of the patient and the lives of those left behind.  He has developed a program to help people in hospice and hospital care to feel they can still laugh and live life each day, regardless of their struggle of the day.  Continue reading »

Have cancer in your family and turn it around by writing? Ray Perkins writes children’s books

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Have you had cancer in your family?  Your child?  Ray Perkins has taken his experiences with his son’s life threatening cancer and written about the experiences of growing up a child, no matter what but with adventure.  Life is still there for the taking and even if it is hard, the sun will come up tomorrow.  Ray brought his two son’s into his books and wrote of how they grew up together and faced adversity but lived life as children.  They did not miss looking for treasure as all boys do. Continue reading »

Stop hunger in your community, ask Bo Cable of The Generous Garden Project how

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Have you been low on food or not sure how to feed your kids tomorrow?  Have you ever gone without a meal or experienced hunger with pains in the stomach that engrained a memory for you?  Are people in your community hungry?  Bo Cable of The Generous Garden Project knows hunger and feeds people in his community every day with garden fresh food he grows.

Bo and I spoke on my recent radio show about how he got started in growing food to give back to others.  He found a plot of land, started slow growing, other people found out about the garden and they came to help him.  Continue reading »

Do you want to honor someone today who is doing good?

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Today’s Honoree gives people a chance to nominate or be nominated for a daily award by their peers.  It doesn’t matter how big or small you are or how much or less money you have.  Each Today’s Honoree must be nominated by someone other than themselves.  Through this blog, another expert or entrepreneur can write a blog post on Words of Encouragement, welcome others to their city or be nominated as an honoree.  Mr. Derrick Hayes is the owner of this site and shares his information with others. Continue reading »

Back to School for Teachers need help: Treasures4Teachers is here to help

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I LOVE back to school!  Don’t you?  If you have children, this may be a great time for you or a stress oriented task.  What if you are a teacher?  How are you feeling this year with the economy and budget cuts from the past several years?

Treasures 4 teachers is a non profit organization in Arizona that provides supplies to teachers.  They are able to fill bags with supplies they may need for the year and get them at a small fee.  While there are pens and pencils, the shelves are stocked with bottle caps, pipe cleaners, papers, and an over abundant selection of project pieces. Continue reading »

Wanting to move to a better city? So do we!! Where??

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With the pending ‘doom and gloom’ being painted around the end of the world this December, are you buying it??

The economy, education, politics, violence, and negligible support services in many cities in the United States these days makes living day-to-day a sheer struggle.  No matter when I speak with others, there is a level of anxiety, pain, struggle, and just life that ‘does not have to be this hard, but it is’ comments.

Where do we go from here? Continue reading »

Radio Guest Bruce Otto of H.O.M.E. of Chicago

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Recently I spoke with Bruce Otto of H.O.M.E. of Chicago, a recent project featured on the Secret Millionaire show.  Bruce was gracious to speak with me about how the project got started so many decades ago.

This project benefits seniors in so many ways:  home repairs, life style support, transportation, companionship and safe living facilities.  If you are a senior in Chicago, this project is very giving and helpful in providing information and services as they can.  However, at this time, the waiting list for seniors is so long and the resources are every so dwindling. Continue reading »

New! Companies that do good for others.

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I have recently added a few companies and non profits that are helping others in many different ways to my website.  They do not do it for the expansive bank rolls, the power of exposure, or the need to fix something in them.  They do it out of the grace of their own hearts.

I have been entering the companies after I interview them on my radio show.  You may find the links to listen to these shows by clicking on their names.

If you have a company that ‘gives back to the community’, I am interested in speaking with you on my show. Continue reading »

Radiation cities in Japan, time to move? What would you do?

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A year later in Japan, many cities are abandoned due to high levels of radiation.

Radiation, water intrusion, cities wiped off the map, what would you do?

The first thought post natural disasters is to go into the area, look for survivors, start the clean up, then institute a process to rebuild. Continue reading »

2012 – The year of new beginnings -What are your feelings about next year?

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The new year, 2012, is a year of endings and new beginnings.  Many people are having scattered feelings about what may come about in the world around us.  Fear, anxiety, anger and hope are a few of those feelings.  How will the world look by the end of 2012?  Only time will tell.  How will you change in 2012?  And, how are these intertwined or distinctly different?

You can google search the internet for so many views on what will happen as the Mayan calendar ends in 2012.  Natural disasters, social unrest and the collapse of all political systems as we now know them are speculations.  Interesting, what will happen if that day comes and goes?  Will you be disappointed or happy? Continue reading »

When is it time to start new cities or communities? Post a natural disaster? Can you really go ‘home’?

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Can ever really go home?  Would you want to?  Why?  What if you were roused from your home?  What if home was no longer there?  What really is ‘home’?

After natural disasters, home becomes discussions about the ‘house’ and the state it may be in.  The family may be disoriented and feel shockingly disconnected to the stability they had previously created. Continue reading »

City of issues? Social challenges rising in communities

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Today, we received many postcards in our mailbox giving details of sex offenders living in our neighborhood. As I sat reading this, there was an ice cream truck going around the block with its old fashioned voice calling the kids and saying hello in a female voice. It was a strange type of calling. This is all happening after two weeks of intense violence within families, cultures and drug related murders in our area. Continue reading »

Know Everything Where You Live

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About ten years ago, I was looking to relocate to the North east. Since I was limited on time for my trip, I planned to visit several cities and see several homes with realtors. My daughter and I were driving into a city late one night and noticed a stench in the air of chemicals and sewer rot. When we asked the real estate agent the next day about the smell she responded with a whole-hearted laugh, “Oh, yes, but we got rid of most of the poisonous toxins from the city, they buried them from the paint plant with tons of soil a few years ago. That smell won’t kill you, it is only at night.”

Just like this pipe that is running water into this canal, it looks ok and you would think nothing of it unless it started to foam, right? This water came from a chemical runoff plant and coal area. It passes through animal and food farms. It runs into seafood beds. It enters water supply areas.

What do you think it does? What do you think it has in it? What do you think it can affect? What harm can it do? How is it tested? What is it tested for? What is it not tested for? How do you think about it? How do you ignore it?

We welcome positive comments and thoughts only………

The view of a ghost like ship sent off with fanfare and hearts in New Orleans today

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Ship in Fog, USA flag in foreground

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Today, at 5 am, we got up and were heading to downtown New Orleans Moonwalk in the French Quarter on the Mississippi River. We wanted to watch a ship pass by that was just completed at Avondale Shipyards just a few miles up river from us.

The most important thing about this, it was a ship that is made from 7.5 tons of metal from the 911 wreckage. It is named the ‘we will never forget’ ship. It was completely built here at this shipyard from scratch to completion. Today, it is done, the final paint was put on, the crew on board and the sailing plan set for Virginia and then on to New York City in the next several months.

While this is a monumental feat at best to take a significant loss and create from the ashes and metal, what also took place today was a beautiful candle on the cake. Thousands of people lined the levee, that is the bank of the river, from Avondale to the mouth of the river to send this grand ship off in all spectacle, but bigger still, to let the ship know, the people support it, the people feel it, the people believed in America and the strength was felt on all levels.

We all waited for the ship to come round the bend under the Mississippi River bridge, (yes, the same one that people were not allowed to cross in Katrina, when the city was flooded and Gretna on the other side was high and dry and never even lost power or people or had serious effects), but the fog rolled in and we could not even see the middle of the river, let alone any ship traffic.

We waited, people came, people left, but the crowd waited, just like waiting for a Mardi Gras parade, for when it comes, in New Orleans time, it will come when it comes. It was expected for 8:30, but did not round the bend until almost going for ten. But, the fog was so thick, we waited for the river to ripple, we waited for the fog horns to blare, or the bands to play, but waiting and hoping for a big metal ghost to come out of the f og came slow and quick with such a filtered glimpse, that those who blinked may have missed it.

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It made this seem grander to all senses, as we listened to the loud horn of the ship, then the calliope of the River Queen paddle boat started to play ‘New York, New York’ , and the ghost of the river drifted past, with push boats and tug boats, all shooting up their water spouts like whales, and the people all yelling ‘USA” and waving their free flags all along the banks of the river. We waved, yelled, sought with ours eyes, listened with our ears and remembered with our minds.

All attempts to ‘get pictures’ showed only an outline in the distance, but the people will remember, the ship we will not forget, we were there, if only for those two minutes for the ship to enter our sight, to drift out of our sight, that is how we will remember.

There are so many things to worry about, to say is wrong, right, or good or bad, this just was, it happened, it was created. Not just with metal, or loss or money, it was the people who were remembered, the people who built it, the people who came to send it off. People make the world a better place, be present.


Copyright – Written by: Jeanette Gallagher Oct. 13th 2009