KEEPING YOUR SANITY THROUGH UNDERSTANDING YOUR PERSONAL INFLUENCE
It‘s easy to underestimate our effect on others.
Those we are close to, and even those people who are three degrees of separation away from those we are close to – friends of friends of friends – are our sphere of influence… and we are theirs. What we say and do makes a real impact on those around us, and even on those a moderate distance away.
Appreciating this can be a great motivator for living our best life. But the impact of our behavior in one arena is particularly significant… shocking even.
THE WELL OF JOB
We’re all familiar with the sufferings of Job in the Old Testament’s Book of Job. But what happened to Job after his sufferings were ended? All the OT says is that, with his health and riches restored, he lived long enough to see his great-great grandchildren.
The OT says Job lived in the “Land of Uz,” which was “beyond the Euphrates.” That would place it in modern day Iraq. There is no connection between this Hebraic name and the land of Uzbekistan – meaning the Land of Uzbeks, a Turkic people. Yet the Silk Road city of Bukhara in today’s Uzbekistan is thousands of years old.
Jews have lived in Bukhara for 3,000 years, although almost all have emigrated now (some 150,000 Bukharan Jews live in Israel). Thus it is a very ancient legend that during a terrible drought in Bukhara, Job visited the city and struck the ground with his staff – causing a spring of healing water to gush from the ground, and continues to do so today.
A shrine was built around the spring – the Well of Job – and the water is clear and drinkable. One of the many extraordinary experiences in what we call Hidden Central Asia. We’ll be here again this coming May. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #114 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE MAN OF DEMENTIA ON HIS DONKEY AGAIN
FLASHBACK FRIDAY – A GLACIER IN THE GOBI
June 2002, the Vulture’s Mouth Glacier. In the deepest heart of the Gobi Desert of Mongolia, south of the Flaming Cliffs where Roy Chapman Andrews discovered dinosaur eggs in the 1920s, there is a naked spine of mountains called the Gurvan Saihan. In the Gurvan Saihan there is a deep gorge called Yol Alyn, the Vulture’s Mouth. And in the Vulture’s Mouth, there is a glacier.
It is not a big glacier, the continual ice buildup of a stream that never melts even in the heat of the Gobi summer. Yet it is a glacier nonetheless, thick enough for my son Jackson and I to walk on for more than a mile. The Vulture’s Mouth Glacier is just one of a multitude of extraordinary experiences Mongolia has to offer the explorer. Are you up for exploring it with me this summer of 2022? (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #90 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
HALF-FULL REPORT 01/14/22
What a pleasant lead headline story on Fox to wake up to this Friday morning (1/14).
The Squatter in the White House now has a public approval of 33%, SCOTUS tossed his OSHA vax mandate in the toilet 6-3, his lunatic Atlanta rant went for naught with Manchin/Sinema killing his “voting rights” fraud, inflation at 7% is highest in 40 years with #BareShelvesBiden trending.
It’s going to keep getting worse – especially with Bidenflation getting worse. Why, is something all TTPers need to understand – and feel free to cut, paste, and email to all their friends. And that is, the way inflation is measured today is not the same as back in 1982. If it were, the Labor Dept.’s BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) would be reporting over 15%.
This is a must-read HFR!
DESPERATE DEMS MORE DANGEROUS THAN EVER
Zhou Biden’s “voting rights” speech in Atlanta (1/11) has been widely criticized for dishonesty and demagoguery, but its real significance involves what it told us about the increasing panic that pervades his Democrat Party.
Biden’s sudden pivot from the Build Back Better Act (BBB) to “election reform” betrays a very real fear that his party will lose its tiny majorities in Congress big time unless they seize control of our national elections.
For well over two centuries the states have played the primary role in the administration of congressional elections, as the Constitution specifies. Yet Biden and the Democrats now insist that this time-tested system somehow constitutes a threat to democracy itself.
No, it’s a threat to the Dems’ goal of seizing monopoly power of all America.
THE PARADISE OF ZIHUATANEJO
Once a small Mexican fishing village far from everything, Zihuatanejo (zee-wah-tan-ay-ho) – Zee-wat to locals – has become a paradisical escape hatch for many seeking refuge from our pressure-cooker world. 150 miles up the northwest coast of Acapulco, Zee-wat is its own world of peace and serenity.
Stroll on the beach or along the Paseo del Pescador (Fisherman’s Path) with its shops, bars, and restaurants unbothered. Just relax surrounded by flowers, warm water, and blue sky. All the worries elsewhere in Mexico, much less in the US or anywhere else are not here.
The time to come is now, the dry season November-May. Prices are a bargain with the dollar way up on the peso. Non-stop flights from multiple cities in the US and Canada. Just a few days here will do wonders for your soul. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #182 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
SKYE’S LINKS 01/13/22
The 'Crats' problem with democracy:
The Democrats' Problem With Democracy
A very much to the point interview as to why the Republicans lost in 2020 and what needs to be done to prevent it from happening again:
Trump Fundraiser Caroline Wren: Donors Want a Forensic Audit of GOP Campaign Spending
Jan 6 looking more and more like a Fed false flag op:
Who Is Ray Epps? DoJ Refuses To Say, Jan6 Committee Claims 'Not A Fed'
And it is looking like the FBI's War On Terrorist Parents may be another Russia, Russia, Russia type rigged op:
Biden's Education Secretary Allegedly Requested 'Domestic Terrorism' Letter From School Boards Group
There’s so much more in this Skye’s Links! Including a video that devastates Fauci….
THE RANT OF A CRAZED DEMAGOGUE
A portrait of demented darkness of soul
In a disgraceful performance yesterday (1/11), Joe Biden went down to Georgia to offer a disgraceful pack of lies about the filibuster and Democrats’ so-called “voting rights” bills.
In a scathing address on the Senate floor today (1/12), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ripped into Biden’s Georgia speech on the Democrat push for voting rights legislation, calling it “profoundly unpresidential” for calling millions of Americans “domestic enemies” while comparing “a bipartisan majority of senators to literal traitors.”
Biden’s was a demagogic rant designed to make Twitter blue-checks do a Snoopy dance of joy while embracing an effort with no chance of actual success.
THE FREEDOM TO CHEAT
The key word here is “accidentally,” for politicians are professionals at hiding the truth. And when it comes to that, Democrats are the best in the business. Take what’s happening right now.
Democrats in Congress are pushing another wildly unwanted, unnecessary, unpopular bill: The Freedom to Cheat Act. They don’t call it that, of course, as they are desperate to hide and deny what it really is. But it’s what every patriot needs to call it. Here’s why.