Goodbye America, Hello Banana Republic! America, also known as the “shining city on a hill” is gone. It has been replaced by a country with a weaponized criminal justice system. This has become a radicalized educational system, and a news media that is a mouthpiece for a tyrannical government. Calypso singer was at headfront of Civil Rights Movement in the 60’s.
Personally escaping today’s woes can be as simple as escaping to the 100 Acre Woods. The 100 Acre Woods is a place in the book “Winnie the Pooh.” Our imaginations are encouraged to roam freely. Much like Christopher Robins in the forest above the woods with his furry friends. This place leads us through our imagination to a kinder, more helpful, and better world. To read this fascinating book
Reading lets your mind imagine things
When we read our mind expands and we see things in a different setting. Mark Twain – known as America’s greatest journalist and writer, connects us with our spirituality and our present world as well — like a hand fits in a glove. So should your imagination when you read amazing things. This will let you escape the many woes that today has handed you. “It is hard to think straight when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain, River Boat captain on the Mississippi River.
Heading into the 100 Acre Woods
A bear however hard he tries, grows chubby without exercise.
Our Teddy Bear is short and fat, which is not to be wondered at;
He gets what exercise he can by falling off the ottoman,
But generally seems to lack the energy to clamber back.
The Hundred Acre Woods allows your imagination to use your mind and go to a happier place rather than play with plastic/electronic toys that break! We can ge refreshed with these adorable animal friends of Pooh Bear.
Good, Better, Best
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Till your good is better an your better is best. (St. Jerome) Follow artist and scientist to focus on your hopes and not your hurts. Joy is the feeling we don’t want to miss. Joy is found in the things that we love to do like taking care of our pets. Dogs can be good “reading buddies” as they tend to defray stress. For understanding how this may be we can look at the kindergarten setting (Child’s Garden). Both the artist and scientist at Columbia U show us how our body’s own stress works. The stress-reducing neurotransmitter is serotonin. It is produced in the smallest creature, the snail, on up the scale to us.
A child’s play is his work — Serotonin
We begin stress in all walks of life from kindergarten to grade school. Then off to college, as well as everyday work. It helps to have your feel-good serotonin (neurotransmitter between sensory and motor neurons) working for you. Moderate your fight/flight response in the ways we suggest. Then we learn from digging in the dirt as well. Working with your hands in rich gardening soil can generate serotonin and dopamine which are both chemicals that produce a feeling of happiness. Earth Day and always.
Human Stars to the War
A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning. Actor/teacher Kirk Cameron makes books teaching values vital and interesting. Libraries can present the “Freedom Island” book. In book “As You Grow” the moral of the story is that people need to possess the same qualities and faith=based values as the acorn to “develop and grow as we go through different seasons in our lives.” Cameron starred in family sitcom Growing Pains as teen idol Mike Seavor. A former actress/story-teller, Maude Fealy, enthralled students with literature in the school rooms of Los Angeles. She started her career as a child star at Elitch Gardens Theater in Denver, CO.
Together is My Favorite Place to Be
- “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
- “You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.”
- “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
- “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if you only try.”
- “It’s better to know how to learn than to know.”
- Dr. Seuss Rx
Media Needs a New Direction
Tapping an extraordinary amount of research, Rand Paul, MD wrote that Dr. Fauci’s NIH (National Institute of Health) not only funded dangerous, illegal gain-of-function virus research at a Wuhan, China, lab.
But: that Fauci knew it was the source of COVID as early as February 2020 and spent years covering it up. Journalists complied with him leaving Rand Paul to say “The ignorance of today’s ‘journalists’ is staggering. They only know how to repeat the dogma fed to them.” Book “Deception (The Great CoverUP”} – Rand Paul. Thus the great need for Mark Twain today as above.
Guidebook for Journalism and Hope
Looking to a mentor of truth and hope we find Gay Talese, the most stylish writer out there. In an effort to divert the 90 million deaths predicted from World War III, we can do as Talese does by focusing on the truths of the common man as marginal, tangential, and incidental figures, more interesting than the bigwigs and institutions they serve. Seeing less about the flunkees protecting the flanks but finding a guidebook to best practices in journalism.
(“Bartleby and Me”by Gay Talese) In an age in which fame is often the lone determinant of media coverage, Talese offers a shining counterexample. You’ll come away from his last book believing there are no nobodides, there are just bad writers. After the Russians in 1957 had launched a dog name Laika into orbit, he wrote about other headline-making dogs in history. The life of virtually anybody can be compelling if thoroughly reported and elegantly told. For starters grab up your favorite reading buddy dog and begin the journey to hope with the youth: