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Howdy Folks and Good Day!


We’ve got some really exciting news for you that I’ve been bursting to share…

Dr. Barbara has just released her new book!

It’s called The Truth: I’m Ten, I’m Smart and I Know Everything.

I had the sheer pleasure of previewing the manuscript before it went to press.  I have to admit, I put it off for a while because I was bogged down with many other things at the time.  But then I picked it up and started to read… And I couldn’t put it down!  I can’t recall the last time that’s happened to me!

Dr. Barbara tells the delightful tale of a young woman coming of age chronicling the laughter, joy, heartaches and tears we’ve all faced from the perspective of a very precocious ten year old.  In sharing a year of this young girl’s heart, we are reminded of life’s simplest pleasures and what it’s like to discover ourselves as we overcome life's fears and challenges. 

The Truth is page after page of delight, wonder, insight, and inspiration.  I highly recommend it.

CONGRATULATIONS, DR. BARBARA! 

Way to go!!!

With Peace, Love, Happiness, Health, and Prosperity…

Rev. Jeanette

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Sir Froggie's Positive News Network:  Thursday, May 10th, 2007
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1.      Happy Birthday, Greg F.!

Keep growing in faith and following your dreams, knowing your heart’s truest desires are possible.   You have every reason to believe in your Self!



2.      (Fill in the blanks.) Today, I desire and experience…

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I also affirm the following positive reality:

“I manifest my desires with grace and ease.”

JMP


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3.      “…You can completely change every circumstance and event in your entire life by changing the way you think.”

    © The Secret by Rhonda Byrne




4.      The Enchanted Self     — by Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein

The Truth:  I’m Ten, I’m Smart and I Know Everything

Reason #1 to buy my new book: The Truth: I’m Ten, I’m Smart and I Know Everything!

I guarantee that you will fall in love with the little girl in this book.  And you will thank her for making you laugh, sigh, remember, and opening your eyes one more time to the real stuff that life is all about.  And that's The Truth! 

Reason #2 for buying The Truth: I’m Ten, I’m Smart and I Know Everything! 

Mother's Day is this Sunday.  If you order immediately I will personally send the book out to you ASAP! 

Reason #3 for buying The Truth: I’m Ten, I’m Smart and I Know Everything

Our daughters deserve to know that we care about how they feel growing up.  This is the book to help you tune back into your daughter's precious uniqueness and her very real needs!  

Here are some relevant and current topics I would love to talk to you about centered around women and girls and dramatically illustrated in my new book: 

Talking with, not just giving lip service, to our daughters;

Sex education home based;

Really listening to your kid;

Having fun even when you grow up;

Nancy Drew and what she means to all of us girls and women;

Keeping secrets;

Knowing the truth about growing up;

Family life and recognizing what is really important;

Lockets-what they mean to girls and women (they are big this spring.  There is a secret in the story tied into a locket);

Helping our girls hold on to the best of themselves as they face growing up.   

 All my best,

 Barbara  

— © Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein

In private practice since 1981, Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein, psychologist and originator of The Enchanted Self, has committed to bring the keys of enchantment to the world.

¨   E-mail Dr. Barbara at:  DrBarbara@Enchantedself.com

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Talk to her on her blog, The Enchanted Self, at www.typepad.com




5.      “Your thoughts are seeds, and the harvest you reap will depend on the seeds you plant.”

— © The Secret by Rhonda Byrne




6.      ValueSpeak
A Weekly Column
By Joseph Walker

TOUCHING BASS ON COMMON GROUND

My teenage neighbor, Mikey, has taken up the electric bass guitar.  I know this because I could hear the pounding bum-bum-bum of his heavily amplified Fender late into the night last Saturday.  He was playing along with music that was coming – loudly – from his CD player.

I didn’t recognize the song.  Heck, I barely recognized that it was music.  But I did recognize the passionate energy – if not the musical virtuosity – that was flowing from his soul to his fingers to the strings of his electric bass.  It was a feeling I remembered from my own bass-playing days, when I tried to keep up with Peter Cetera’s flying fingers as the Chicago Transit Authority album played on my Mom and Dad’s old RCA hi-fi.

“I’m a man . . . yes I am . . . and I can’t help but love you so . . .”

Bum-bum-bum-bum-BUUUM!

I mentioned this to Mikey the next day at church. At first he was a little embarrassed that I had heard him. But when I told him that I was a fellow bassman and that I thought he sounded pretty good he seemed pleased.  And almost interested.

“Did you play in a group or anything?” he asked.

“Oh yeah,” I said with as much cool as a 52-year-old with short hair and a double chin can muster.  “I was in a few of ‘em.  We played dances and parties and stuff.  It was great.”

Which was essentially true.  I did play in three or four rock bands.  Each one lasted for about one gig.  We’d play a party or a dance, and for some reason that I never fully understood there was no one clamoring for us to play again.  Ever.  So we didn’t (although there has been some talk of at least one Geezer Rock reunion tour – I’ll keep you posted).

“So did you, like, do Woodstock?” Mikey wanted to know.

At first I thought he was being facetious.  And maybe he was – a little.  But I could understand his logic (which in itself is a little frightening, now that I think about it): old guy plus bass plus rock band equals Woodstock.

Doesn’t it?

“Nah,” I told him.  “That was a little before my time.  I was only 14 when Woodstock happened.”  I was going to tell him that my particular age group was probably more responsible for disco, but I stopped myself.  I mean, seriously – who wants to take responsibility for the merciless slaughter of thousands of innocent little polyesters?

Mikey and I chatted for a couple of minutes about the vicissitudes of playing the bass.  I empathized with the calluses he’s growing on his fingers, and I assured him that they will eventually be less painful.  We talked about picking versus plucking (I was always partial to plucking the strings with my fingers, but Mikey makes a good case for the cleaner, crisper sound you can get while using a pick).  And we both smiled knowingly when I shared with him this one infinite and eternal truth: “Chicks dig bass players.”

“Oh, yeah,” Mikey said, with a sly chuckle.  “That’s for sure!”

I don’t think I’m as sure of that as Mikey evidently is, but I am sure of this: for a few minutes last Sunday Mikey and I were not “old guy” and “teenager” – we were brothers, bound by four strings and a desire to make music.  Never mind that his idea of “music” is vastly different from mine.  Forget that he thinks “rap” is something you do with your voice, not your knuckles.  Don’t worry that he has more in common with Sanjaya than Santana.  None of that mattered on Sunday.  For a moment or two we stood together on common ground – which, it turns out, is not really all that difficult to find.

Especially if you don’t mind the late-night bum-bum-bum.

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— © Joseph Walker

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E-mail Joseph at: valuespeak@msn.com 

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Look What Love Has Done: Five-Minute Messages to Lift Your Spirit 


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