Jonah Larson Has Some Hook

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Beginner Friendly Baby Blanket With Jonah’s Hands! Crochet Tutorial

At 11 years old, Jonah Larson has 196,00 followers on Instagram. He is also one of the top draws on YouTube. He is not a rock star, an actor, or a comedian.

He is something far more unique and astonishing. Jonah crochets. He started when he was five and soon became one of the most admired crocheters in the country.

He is so good that he sells many of his items and donates the proceeds to the orphanage where he spent his early years. Jonah even created a GoFundMe Page in partnership with the non-profit, Roots Ethiopia, so that “other children and their families can find their passion and achieve their dreams.”

Jonah’s mother said her son “has tackled complex projects that many adults would struggle with. Jonah shares all of his creations, from colorful blankets to an amigurumi octopus, on his popular Instagram account called Jonah’s Hands”.

To purchase

https://jonahhands.com/

Read more on Jonah

https://mymodernmet.com/jonah-larson-crochet-charity/

Picture Perfect

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Miami Sunrise, Photo by Eliot Hess

Miami Sunset, Photo by Eliot Hess

FOLDING PORTABLE IRON

This is just what I was looking for, a tiny iron that can do touchups. It’s so affordable. Amazon has it discounted at $25.99. It’s usually $50. I can travel with it everywhere and never again have to worry about straightening out a few wrinkles here and there. Don’t miss this opportunity to get one. It works so well. It reminds me of the flat iron I use for my hair. I wish they were interchangeable, but they’re not.

It also opens to iron a wider surface.

Great Hope For Issy Kwei

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Mom and Dad with Issy and sister Lucia

I’m writing this blog post with every hope that somone can help find a cure for the eldest daughter, Issy, of my friend Jeena and her husband Frank Kwei. Issy can’t swallow and has to be fed through a feeding tube. It’s all explained below.

The following comes from their Go Fund Me page.

Fundraiser for Jeena Choi by Liz Grennan : Issy’s Health Care Fund

https://www.gofundme.com/issy039s-health-care-fund

June 20, 2019

Dearest friends who love Issy and our family,

We are keeping this page up so that we can share Issy’s progress.

So… seasons have changed, school year has come and gone, countless medical appointments, consultations and therapy sessions were attended, and now, summer is here and we are approaching the 1st anniversary of Tumor Independence Day!

But here’s the thing: this update is a difficult one for us and it took me weeks to muster up the energy to write it.

Last update left us all full of hope that the myotomy surgery will help Issy swallow. Well, it didn’t. The swallow team is dumbfounded and no one at MGH nor Yale can give us an accurate prognosis when it comes to her dysphagia.

After the surgery on 3/20, and seeing there is no progress even with surgical intervention and continued therapies, we brought Issy home from Boston. She had been away for 18 weeks and our family set a record for the longest stay at Christopher’s Haven. It was time to come home.

Amidst the continuing challenges and heartaches, there has been good news too:

Back in Dec., Issy left on a wheelchair, but returned home in April without one! Her recent MRIs are clean and her hair… wow- grew back in full force in thick, WAVY (she had stick-straight hair prior to chemo) strands! She also got back in the saddle thanks to New Canaan Mounted Troop’s adaptive riding program, turned into a teen on May 4th, watched Hamilton in NYC (thank you, LivFree organization!) and one of her wishes came true: a Westy puppy to call her own!

What’s more, on June 17th, Issy went back to school (Middlebrook Middle School). It was the last day of school and it was just for an hour, but a monumental progress for Issy. She had a wonderful time cocooned in a favorite teacher’s room full of special friends who wiped away her anxieties about walking into school for the first time since cleaning out her locker last June. We are confident she will return this Fall as a 8th grader.

We’ve seen many specialists and added in psychologist and alternative therapies like hypnosis and cranial osteopath. But at this point, all of them agree that Issy needs to focus on healing… her brain was basically assaulted back-to-back-to-back with neurosurgery, chemo, radiation and more intervention. So now we watch her enjoy just being Issy as much as she can bear in her current situation, and let her do things she loves, like horseback riding, playing with her puppy, hanging out with sister Lucia and friends. Let her be a kid and not a patient. That is where we are and that is for once, all of the doctors’ ONLY orders.

We will be home all summer so stop by and say hello~

– Jeena + Frank

Red Flag Laws

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The New York Times published my brother’s letter, print and online, last Thursday. We are very proud.

To the Editor

 

Regarding the proposed so-called “red flag” laws which, one may hope, will recover guns from unstable people thereby helping to prevent mass shootings.

 

While I support taking guns from perceived unstable people and gun regulations in general (no one, not in the military, needs an automatic weapon, for example), these “red flag” laws are “prospective facto” and probably will not survive constitutional testing. Who on earth can tell what is in a person’s mind and future intention? It’s a slippery slope.

 

And, if those proposed laws do survive, how does one calculate the effectiveness of mass shootings being prevented?

 

It’s a gun advocate’s mild sedative to those who want stronger gun control.

 

Steve Schneider

Do You Know Bill Hanley?

https://youtu.be/eO9U0JwJVBw

Introducing the true hero of Woodstock, the sound engineer. Bill Hanley is regarded as the “father of festival sound.” He was told he needed to prepare for 100,000. Five hundred thousand showed up and he didn’t disappoint. The Woodstock festival was located in Bethel, New York, in August, 1969. Does Hanley ever go to CES? Who in the industry knows him? Tell us more.

Selfie Videos

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If you think selfies serve no purpose, think again.

I just found out there might be a way for the medical profession to look at a selfie video and see if the person in question has high blood pressure.

How wild is that?

Researchers at the University of Toronto are close to figuring out a way “to accurately measure blood pressure on a smartphone. First they have to zero in on a technology known as transdermal optical imaging (TOI).”

They are testing sensors on all smartphones that can actually capture the red light reflected from hemoglobin under our skin.This permits TOI to visualize and measure blood flow changes.

Very exciting times ahead. Watch the video for exact details.

LA40 – “Warriors For Peace

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I’m so proud of the Internet show my young friend, Katerina Cozias, did today. I just wanted to devote a DigiDame post to it.

Katerina did an entire show on the Warriors For Peace (WFP), a theatre company comprised of US military veterans and civilians with a two-fold mission: Provide catharsis for our returning warriors through Shakespeare and promote peace, healing, and foster the principles of global citizenship by bringing veterans of different nations together in the arts.

WFP has a simple philosophy: Who better to promote peace than those who have seen the face of war? Believing that art transcends politics and brings people together, in these tumultuous times that we are living, watch LA40 host Katerina Cozias as she sits down with the members of the WFP theater group to discuss how their projects are designed to build bridges between communities, promote ethnic diversity, empower women, and of course, foster peace. 

 

Click below to view the show.


http://www.facebook.com/katerinacozias/videos/2376416026018724

Catch the show LIVE, Thursdays at 11am PST / 2pm EST on LATalkRadio.com. 

To reserve your spot as a feature guest on the talk show LA40, contact media@katerinacozias.comor visit LATalkRadio.com

For more with founder Christopher Loverro and Warriors for Peace Theater Company, visitWFPTheater.com

For more Katerina, visit Katerina360.com


Weighted Blankets Work

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Took my second shingles shot today and I already have 99.4° temp. A heavy blanket feels so good.

Thank you Dr. Steve Mandy for sharing these. We all need “time out” to reflect.

Irresponsible Out-Of-The-Office Email Replies

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Lying On The Beach Podcast

If you want to drive a busy person crazy, just post an out-of-the office email reply that you are on vacation for the week, and then you don’t delete it for many days after you return to work. It happens all the time. Many workers hide behind the out-of-the-office replies because they want to take advantage of this common business practice. TV personality Steve Greenberg and PR expert Lois Whitman-Hess discuss the culprits and why they shouldn’t be working in the digital age.  

Click here to hear the podcast

http://www.lyingonthebeach.com/2019/08/06/irresponsible-out-of-the-office-email-replies/


A Window of Opportunity

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This video was recorded during a visit to Israel last year.

A Window of Opportunity

 

I had the privilege of speaking with Rabbi Marc Philippe of Temple Emanu-El of Miami Beach today about the recent shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. I am involved in a musical Kabbalistic project with the Rabbi, and others, that will hopefully bring more peace and harmony in the country.

I asked the Rabbi about the future for all Americans and if the current hostile environment will ever change. By the way, before arriving in Miami, Rabbi Marc was located in El Paso. How is that for a coincidence?

Rabbi Marc wrote the following piece as a response to my question.

“Darkness again”

 

Mass shootings bringing death, suffering.  Also disbelief, anger, helplessness, fear, despair, all terribly negative emotions.

I won’t tell you anything new by saying negative emotions are not healthy. If maintained, we know these emotions will create some type of dis-ease, psychological or physical. Whichever the dis-ease, it will be highly contagious because negative emotions affect everyone around.

 

This is how negativity -or evil- gains strength.  Can we turn this around?

 

Mysticism teaches that every word, every action creates an entity. Not a physical one, but a spiritual one. This is how powerful we all are, because each of these entities            -spiritual beings- has an effect in our physical world. They are pure energy.  We can’t see them, but they strongly influence the world we live in. 

It is easy to understand that some words or actions will create beings of Light, while others will unfortunately create beings of darkness.

Our emotions have the same power. Negative emotions, such as the anger and the words of anger that are said or written after a mass shooting, create beings of darkness and have the terrible effect of giving strength to the evil that already exists in the world.

 

Are we stuck in a spiraling vicious circle?  Actually not at all.

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When the world seems the darkest, there is in fact a window of opportunity. If you find yourself in a dark cave, a small match, a tiny flame has the potential to illuminate the entire place. Likewise, in a time of darkness, a small act of kindness has the potential to illuminate the entire Universe. If you decide to embark on a personal “random-act-of lovingkindness” campaign, YOU have the potential to bring about a new paradigm. You have the power to counteract the darkness that is being brought. Don’t ever underestimate what you can do, it is a super-power. Your positive emotions, words and actions will bring the energy that the world needs for peace.