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Congratulations to the #Brewers on winning your first World Series title. Uncle Bob would be proud!!
This shocking video captured the freak accident that took Father Patricio Alfredo Sánchez Molinari’s life earlier today in mass. It’s hard not to seek meaning in this. This was in Ecuador.
#Guayaquil
Mientras se encontraba dando misa en sus redes sociales, el sacerdote, Patricio Sánchez, perdió la vida al ser impactado por una cruz de madera
Visited the first Burger King today. The story is more interesting than it just being an old Burger King! Learn something new every day.
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Paul McCartney ate this way for 20 years. John Lennon flew him to New York for private consultations. Yoko Ono credited him with saving her life. The macrobiotic movement he built became a $4 billion global industry.
Then the legendary Japanese scientist Michio Kushi stood in front of a room in 1984 and said one sentence that made every job in the audience feel like a trap.
"Did you come from the infinite universe — taking billions of years of life journey, choosing this planet, choosing your parents — to become a company employee getting $200 per week?"
The room went quiet.
He started with the mosquito.
Eat well for six months. Then go on a picnic with people who eat ice cream, orange juice, sugar. Watch what happens.
The bugs will circle. Then ignore you. Then land on your friends.
Not because of sprays. Not because of luck.
Because the mosquito knows the blood is too thick. The tissue too tight. The tube gets stuck. It becomes dangerous.
"Mosquito is innocent," he said. "You made yourself an attractive paradise for mosquito. Mosquito came. The cause is yourself."
Then he pointed at the entire medical industry.
Virus is enemy. Bacteria is enemy. DNA is enemy — which means your parents are enemies. So we build weapons. Vaccines, drugs, chemotherapy, radiation.
"Battles. Bloody battles. War going on."
Then he said: the same thinking that produces war inside your body produces war outside it.
Soviet may attack. America may attack. Let's have weapons. Let's have shelters.
Same logic. Same delusion. Same battlefield.
He asked the room: where does America exist?
Not on the ground. Birds cross the border without a visa. Animals cross without a passport. From a jet airplane — no borderlines. Just mountains, forests, rivers.
"America exists here," he said, pointing to his head. "We think it exists. That's why we act as if it exists."
He wasn't being poetic.
He was saying: we divided the earth into 100 sections. Then we forgot we made the sections. Now we fight over them.
The part nobody talks about:
Modern people, he said, are living in hell — not because of enemies, not because of devils — but because of delusion.
"I am always good boy. I go to church every Sunday. I give 25 cents. And why do I get cancer?"
So they invent a devil. Something external to blame. Something to fight.
"Egocentric thinking. Arrogance. This tiny man thinks he is the perfect one."
And that thinking, he said, is the only real enemy. Everything else — the virus, the competitor, the rival nation — is just the mosquito finding the sweetest blood in the room.
He asked them to try one experiment.
Sit with someone. Close your eyes. Think about your girlfriend. Then think about missiles flying. Cities burning. Then think about green forests, blue sky, crystal-clear water.
"Thought is vibration. You are always dispatching. You are creating clouds in a blue sky — dark clouds, light clouds, storms — and you forget that you made them."
Then you react to the clouds as if they were real.
Michio Kushi died in 2014. He had personally counseled over 60,000 people. He advised NASA on astronaut nutrition. His ideas are now embedded in every functional medicine, longevity, and gut-health movement currently worth a combined $100 billion.
The lecture is free on YouTube. 65 minutes. Almost nobody outside of macrobiotic and integrative medicine circles has watched it as a complete philosophical system for understanding why modern people suffer in the middle of abundance.
Pretty much
Gen X defined:
Ages 45-61
Looks 35-40
Will 100% throw hands
Doesn't care about your feelings
Cusses a lot
Will make you cry with words
Great work ethic
Pragmatic
Zero tolerance for stupidity
Skeptical of authority
Doesn't trust anyone at 1st
Extremely loyal friend
Figures shit out
Most likely your boss
Works hard, plays hard
No fear
Sarcastic as fuck
Still listens to the same music
Knows lyrics to Rock, Rap & Country
Proficient in analog & digital tech
Self reliant
Adaptable to any environment
Just wants to be left alone
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Tom Brady says his career turned around when a sports psychologist told him to stop complaining about what he wasn’t getting and start stewarding what he had the right way
“Greg said to me, ‘Why don’t you quit bitching about all the things you’re not getting, and how about you do the best with whatever opportunities you get?’, ‘Stop worrying about what the other quarterback’s getting. Stop worrying about what the coach is saying to you.’”
“‘Every time you get in there, you bring the juice. You bring the energy. You bring the enthusiasm. You treat practice like a game.’ Because if you just decide to go out there and you’re blaming everybody else, where does that get you? So I started to change my attitude.”
“I didn’t have a lot of confidence in myself. And when you don’t have a lot of confidence in yourself, you blame other people. When you gain confidence in yourself, you start pointing the finger at yourself.”
“I would encourage every athlete to look in the mirror after every day of practice or a game and say, ‘What can I do better to help the team? What can I do better?’”
“Not, ‘What does the coach need to do better?’ Not, ‘What do my teammates need to do better?’, ‘What do I need to do better?’ If every player does that, you’re going to have an incredible team.”
“You can’t have a false confidence. You don’t only gain your confidence because of your physical ability. You gain your confidence because you’re prepared, because you’re competitive. I couldn’t just show up and be better than everybody.”
“I had to show up prepared. I had to show up with energy. I had to show up with my body feeling right. I had to show up like I was on a mission.”
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✨ I’m Laura — photographer, storyteller, genealogist & preservationist.
I document forgotten America: abandoned places, ghost towns, cemeteries, pioneer trails & their stories.
If you believe our country’s history is worth preserving, come wander the backroads with me. 🇺🇸
Marie is a folk hero!
When a 47-year-old lawyer agreed to pay 90-year-old Jeanne Calment every month until she died in exchange for her apartment, the mathematics must have looked irresistible.
He had made one catastrophic miscalculation.
Jeanne Calment apparently had no intention of dying.
The deal was struck in Arles, France, in 1965. André-François Raffray would pay her 2,500 francs each month. When Jeanne died, the apartment would become his.
She was already 90. What could possibly go wrong?
Thirty years later, Raffray was dead.
Jeanne was still alive.
His widow had to keep paying her.
By the time Jeanne finally died, the family had reportedly paid more than twice the apartment's value.
But that is only one absurd chapter in a life that stretched from 1875 to 1997.
Jeanne was born before the Eiffel Tower existed. As a teenager in Arles, she claimed to have encountered Vincent van Gogh and remembered him rather unromantically as ill-tempered and smelling of alcohol.
She lived through two world wars.
She rode a bicycle until about 100. She lived independently until 110. At 114, she appeared in a film about Van Gogh, becoming the oldest actress on record.
And despite becoming history's greatest symbol of longevity, Jeanne was hardly a model of perfect living.
She loved chocolate. She drank port. She smoked for decades and finally quit at 117, reportedly because deteriorating eyesight made lighting cigarettes difficult.
At 120, reporters asked what sort of future she expected.
“A very short one,” she replied.
She was wrong about that too.
Jeanne Louise Calment died on August 4, 1997.
She was 122 years and 164 days old.
No other human lifespan has ever been authenticated beyond hers.
And the lawyer who once bet financially on her dying first had been gone for two years.
#archaeohistories
What a story!
He made $100 million in a single day while cameras were rolling, then spent years trying to erase every copy of the film.
In 1987 a 32-year-old named Paul Tudor Jones was running $125 million out of a small New York office. A PBS crew followed him for months as he stared at one chart: the 1920s Dow overlaid on the 1980s. Correlation: 92 percent.
He told them the market would climb toward 3,200, then produce an “earth-shaking” crash that would dwarf anything in living memory. Ten months later Black Monday arrived. The Dow dropped 22.6 percent in one session. Almost the entire Street was wiped out.
Jones made roughly one hundred million dollars that day.
Afterward he did everything possible to kill the documentary. He bought every VHS copy he could find and demanded PBS stop airing it. For decades the only way to see *Trader* was through bootlegs that changed hands for hundreds of dollars among traders who treated it like sacred text.
Inside the footage he delivers the single rule that actually built the fortune: “I risk 10 cents to make eight bucks.” Everything else is noise.
The full hour is free on YouTube right now. Seventeen thousand views.
Almost no one currently managing serious money has ever watched it.
That is one heck of a story!
In 1958, a divorced single mom got fired from her secretary job for being a bad typist.
21 years later, she sold her side hustle for $47.5 million.
And her teenage helper would go on to help invent MTV.
Her name was Bette Nesmith Graham.
Before she became a millionaire inventor, she was a struggling single mother in Dallas with no college degree and very few options.
She married young during WWII.
By 22, she was divorced, raising a son alone, and trying to survive on secretary jobs.
She eventually became an executive secretary at Texas Bank & Trust.
There was just one problem:
She was a terrible typist.
The bank had recently installed new IBM electric typewriters that made correcting mistakes almost impossible.
One typo could mean retyping an entire page.
Her son later remembered watching her sit at the kitchen table in “tears of panic,” terrified she’d lose her job.
But Bette had another skill.
She painted holiday window displays at the bank for extra money.
One day, while painting over a mistake on a window, she had a realization:
“An artist never erases mistakes. They paint over them.”
That night, she went home and mixed a white liquid in her kitchen blender using tempera paint.
She poured it into a nail polish bottle.
The next morning, she used it to cover typing errors.
It worked.
For five years, her boss never noticed.
Other secretaries did.
Soon, women from offices across the city were asking for bottles.
Bette started making batches at home with help from her teenage son, Michael, and his friends.
She called the product “Mistake Out.”
Then came the twist.
In 1958, she accidentally typed the name of her side business onto a company letter.
Her boss fired her immediately.
It became the best thing that ever happened to her.
She renamed the product Liquid Paper and focused on it full-time.
Orders exploded.
By the late 1960s, she was selling over a million bottles a year.
By the 1970s, 25 million bottles annually.
Then she did something even more unusual:
She built one of the most progressive workplaces in America.
Her company offered:
• child care
• continuing education
• leadership roles for women
• jobs for disabled workers
• integrated staffing
This was decades before most corporations even considered those ideas.
In 1979, with failing health, Bette sold Liquid Paper to Gillette for $47.5 million.
Six months later, she died at age 56.
Half her fortune went to women-focused charities.
The other half went to her son.
That son was Michael Nesmith.
Yes the same Michael Nesmith from The Monkees.
And with the money from Liquid Paper royalties, he funded a small experimental cable TV project called PopClips.
It featured short films set to music.
PopClips became the direct prototype for MTV.
So one woman’s “typing mistake” helped create:
• a multimillion-dollar company
• one of America’s most progressive workplaces
• and the blueprint for the modern music video era
Bette Graham proved something her old boss never understood:
The mistake wasn’t the failure.
It was the opportunity.
