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06/29/25 – Staying Positive During A Heat Wave

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Staying Positive During A Heat Wave

Book of the Week

This is a fun and very quick read, that contains many helpful insights. 

Really Important Stuff

My Cat Has Taught Me

By Cynthia L. Copeland

Movie of the Week

I enjoyed watching the first six of this ten episode Apple TV series. Episode 7 will be available on July 2. The show is about a washed-up professional golfer, who turns towards a rising young star in the game to turn things around for himself. I find Owen Wilson is good in whatever role he is playing. Mariana Treviño Ortiz, who plays the mother is a joy to watch.

Stick (June 2025)

Please click on the link below to see the trailer

https://youtu.be/UPayOdeUPfk?si=ghgtg6Usd33EWMGp

Music of the Week

Summer Time Blues (1958)

By Eddie Cochran

Please click on the link below to see the music video:

https://youtu.be/zdIqME_JLaU?si=4rrmi-pcpMR6UziT

Extraordinary Person of the Week

Don Quixote

Don Quixote does not see the world for what it is and prefers to imagine that he is living out a knightly story meant for the annals of all time.

Perhaps more of us should be

“tilting at windmills”

The above is a 1955 sketch by Pablo Picasso

of the Spanish literary hero and his sidekick, Sancho Panza.

Art of the Week

The Healer (1937)

By Réne Magritte

The Cloaked Figure:

The figure’s anonymity, enhanced by the cloak, invites interpretation while obscuring identity, a common Magrittean technique. 

The Birdcage:

The birdcage, often a symbol of confinement or hidden truths, juxtaposed with the birds (symbols of freedom) creates a paradox, suggesting both restriction and potential for liberation.

Healing and Mystery:

The title “The Healer” suggests a focus on restoration or guidance, but the unsettling imagery hints at a deeper, perhaps more complex, exploration of the human condition.

Existential Ambiguity:

The painting can be interpreted as a meditation on the nature of healing, both physical and emotional, and the inherent mysteries of life and the human mind.

Summary

Magritte’s work often challenges viewers to question their perceptions of reality and the relationship between the visible and the invisible, and “The Healer” exemplifies this approach.

Joke of the Week

Physical Traits

One of the competitors at the recent APF/AAPF National Powerlifting competition was 90 years old.

How to you envision yourself at 90?

 Character Traits

This can be a little scary.

Guard your thoughts.

Social Traits

Learning Traits

Learning a foreign language is

 helpful in keeping one mentally sharp.

Plus you never know when it could come in handy.

Miscellaneous

What are you putting off?

Books

Uncle Tony’s

Management Tips & Jokes

By Wm. Allen

Paperback $15.00

Ebook $5.00

Click on Link below to go directly to Amazon

Uncle Tony’s Management Tips & Jokes

The Uncle Tony Book can also be found on the shelves of

Schuler Books is located at the Gateway Center, 7260 Orchard Lake Road, West Bloomfield Twp., MI 48322.

Their phone number is (248) 956-1515.

And if you let me know

that you bought a copy of the Uncle Tony Book “from” Schuler Books, I will mail you a free copy of:

Also, the Uncle Tony Book can also be found on the shelves of the

Self Esteem Shop LLC

9568 Marine City Highway, Building A

Casco, MI  48064

Phone (248) 549-9900

The Uncle Tony book  can also be found on the website of

Pages & Paws Bookshop

https://www.pagesandpawsbookshop.com/

Environmental Animals

https://www.amazon.com/Environmental-Animals-Harmony-Jann/dp/B0BW2GFPDM/ref=sr_1_16?

I’m Tired of Being Ordinary,

Are You?

My Final Cover The Kindle version of this book is free, and the paperback version is $10 However, I must warn you that this book will not change your life, only you can do that. This book can be ordered from Amazon

8 thoughts on “06/29/25 – Staying Positive During A Heat Wave”

    • Thank you very much Crystal for again commenting. I suspect we can all use a little positivity. I try to look at the weekly post each morning, before I start my day. Here is Michigan, we get a taste of all four seasons, which I find refreshing so long as winter isn’t too harsh and summer isn’t too hot.

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  2. So funny about the clown and his ass!

    It’s cool that there was a 90-year-old competitor last week.

    I picture myself as active when I’m 90, and a writer, and interested in literature and philosophy and neuroscience and theology, and active in church life. It might take longer to recover from a jog when I’m 90, but I’m not opposed to a good post-jog nap.🙂

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    • Priscilla, as always; thank you so much for commenting. I wasn’t sure how this week’s joke was going to go over, but I can tell from several positive comments already received that it worked.

      I have no doubt, that you will definitely see 90. I trust I will be around to wish you a Happy 90th birthday 🎂.

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