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Good evening friends.
Happy Poppy Rocky Lucky Tuesday. A day and night field with hope and possibilities. Remember, if Poppy, Rocky and Lucky can make it, anyone can.
For all of our new friends, Poppy, Rocky and Lucky are 3 of our 7 dogs. The three of them had a very tough start in life. The odds of us all ending up together were zero. But somehow, today, we’re a Wolfpack of 8 including me. Owhoooo.
OK friends, let’s kick this night with two positive notions.
1. Anytime I’m just thinking about myself, I feel agitated. Whenever I’m thinking of others, I feel purposeful. Funny how that works.
2. The reason I put animals before people, is because people can take care of both, animals cannot.
Day 1136 here in Puerto Rico, yes, 1136. Today is day 822 since we rescued Rocky, and day 286 since we rescued Lucky.
Have a great night friends.
Because sometimes you meet an angel and don’t remember your life before them.
Say hello to my best friend of 43 years, Lloyd Lapidus from Florida, and his new rescue from Puerto Rico, Rocko. He’s a 4 month old Lab Mix and weighs 25 pounds. Tri-Country Humane in Florida organized the rescue.
A massive Congratulations to Rocko and the whole Lapidus family.
The odds of Rocko making it out of PR and into one of the greatest animal loving families around, were almost zero.
But as we’ve talked about before, sometimes all of the stars are aligned, and life hands you a gift that changes you forever.
Lloyd sent me many pictures that I’ll share with everyone over the next few weeks or so.
We want to thank Lloyd & Family for making the world a better place one animal at a time. Every time we rescue an animal, we create a miracle.
“I thought I rescued you. But, I think you rescued me”
Have a great night friends.
Good morning friends.
Happy Father’s day to all the dads out there. Let me guess, most dads will receive a tie today as a present, lol.
OK, being I have been on the father kick lately, I decided to leave this particular story for Father’s day which happens to land on Sunday Funday, and also on a day we usually do features on “The Good News Channel”
Here we go. As i said my dad was obsessed with basketball and baseball and a result pushed me pretty hard in sports. Let me tell you a story specially about his training methods in basketball for me. This took place from the ages of 9 -12 years old. Being my father was very competitive he wanted to make sure I was the best. But sometimes practice just wasn’t good enough.
So he went out and hired me a basketball tutor whom I spent every Saturday morning with from 7 am to 10 am, three hours of hard core basketball training. Now if anyone thinks that I wanted to get up on a Saturday morning for three hours of basketball tutoring after a full week of school and basketball training with the team, then you need to think again.
Now here was my father and the tutor’s strategy. You see in basketball we all dribble the ball better with our stronger hand and arm. Being my strong side was my right side, naturally that’s the side I was most comfortable dribbling the ball up the court with. My father wanted me to able to dribble just as well with my left hand as my right. As many of you know this term is called; ambidextrous, which means you can go right or left just as easily on both sides.
So my father and the basketball tutor decided to tie my right hand behind my back, blindfold me and force my mind and body to only use my weaker side which was my left side. Now if anyone thinks I wanted to spend my Saturday mornings with my strong arm tied behind my back, blindfolded and dribbling a basketball on my weak side for 3 hours, you probably believe that Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah are still living in the ocean since 1984 from the movie “Mermaid”
Did i become ambidextrous ? Yes. Was i much better basketball player because I could drive the ball left and right ? Yes. Did it confuse the players defending me knowing I can go left and right ? Yes ?
Did I care about any of those benefits ? No. At the end of the day I was 12 years old and just wanted to run around squeezing girls boobies.
Happy Father’s days friends. Have a great Sunday Funday.
RIP, Barry Smith, February 3rd, 1984.
Good morning friends. Dr. Harp Seal here.
We have a fun one for you this morning. We all the know principals behind the slogan; “The Glass is half full or “The Glass is half Empty” — Lets take a closer look at each one.
You see, technically speaking, The Glass is half full and half empty. So lets look at each one so we can see the divergence that is created by choosing one over the other.
OK, lets consider an upbeat person who has a half glass of water. He will say to himself, “I am really going to enjoy whats left of this glass.” — So he drinks the glass of water and is thoroughly satisfied.
Now lets consider more of a downer kind of person. He also has a half glass of water. but this gentleman says to himself; “I wish I had a full glass of water. I wonder where i can get some more water” — In conclusion, when Mr. Downer drinks his half glass of water, he does Not enjoy any of it and is left completely unsatisfied still looking for more water.
This is a great illustration about how positive thinking really does make our lives better. Its not just an old wives tale. Positive thinking is a real tool that is applicable to all of us. We all get to use it and benefit from it.
With that friends. Have a wonderful Monday. We’ll see you tonight.
