Cult of Positivity

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I turned 30 years old this week and it truly feels like a new phase of life. On the GeoQuiz podcast for Monday, I learned that September 11 is New Year’s Day in Ethiopia. According to the GeoQuiz site, “It’s a day to dance and sing and rejoice at the arrival of mild weather and a green spring. It’s said that this day has been celebrated every year since the Queen of Sheba returned home after visiting King Solomon in Jerusalem.”

I like thinking of September 11 as New Year’s Day and so from now on I will.

I’ve been a little absent recently, I know, but my time away has been (mostly) well-spent. I’ve been on a real self-help kick, assessing where I’m at and what I need to do to live a more challenging, rewarding and productive life. I have thought and thought and thought and thought, and now it’s clear to me that there’s nothing to do but the doing (or however that goes). Oh, and that attitude is everything.

If you have sound, check out this inspiring story from National Public Radio about twin, violinist brothers in Brazil who, with the support and encouragement of their parents, breached all kinds of odds.

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Exiles

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Surely, it is an irony that the Miami-Dade School Board, motivated by the interests of Cuban exiles who despise the post-Batista government, is attempting to ban a 32-page children’s book titled “Vamos a Cuba.” Why? Because its description of Cuba is too “positive.” The book is part of a series designed to introduce kindergarten through 2nd grade students to other countries of the world.

Miami Herald article.

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