www.livelifehappy.com
provides this quote for us today:
“You can’t calm the storm…so stop
trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass. ~Timber Hawkeye
Hawkeye is a Buddhists or religion-less fellow who has
spoken on TEDx and has earned quite a following.
The storms of life are survivable as most of us know by
centering on calm until the storm passes. Whether a meteorologist or not, life
has many emotional storms that must be weathered. Calm helps in those cases,
too.
Let’s look at a few:
love and marriage; new parenthood, hell – parenthood in any situation!;
political ideology and the misuse of same; energy crisis because we are not
truly serious about solving it; moving the poor to standards of self
sufficiency and quality of life; expanding access to higher education;
expanding access to health care without prohibitive personal costs; housing
crisis; do nothing Congress and state legislatures. The list goes on and on.
On one of those issue, Ralph Nader had this to say:
“The use of solar energy has not
been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.”
They do own the Congress, however, and thus the crisis
continues.
Even Henry Ford had this positive statement:
“Paying
good wages is not charity at all – it is the best kind of business.”
Bet he would still oppose minimum wage legislation if he
were here today!
Related to that issue is this anonymous quote:
“Understand that in a ‘free market’,
corporations will always seek the cheapest source of labor. But why the hell do
they get tax incentives to take our jobs overseas?”
Good question!
On healthcare access, here’s an interesting quote by an
unknown author:
“In my experience, the Affordable
Care Act is really a job creator. The law has been very important to us.” -Mark Hodesh
Mark is the owner of Downtown Home and Garden in Ann Arbor , Michigan
Yet we continue to hear fear mongering by many business
associations claiming Obamacare will bankrupt the business community AND the
federal government. Hardly. These
employers used to provide health care insurance to their employees for many
decades. Now as they are dumping such coverage and abandoning employees to the
health care market, they claim hardship!
What about the uninsured? They now number 43 million and the number
continues to rise.
Yes we have many personal storms as well as snow storms, ice
storms and tornadoes. But we can live through them and gain strength by doing
so. Seek calm before during and after the storms. You’ll be glad you did!
Maria Robinson reminds of this:
“Nobody can go back and start a
new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
I think the new endings come from calm. Let us know if you
agree!
September 13, 2013
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