If you’ve ever released stress by dancing around your room to your favorite tunes or enjoyed a good cry with the help of a touching love song, you know how powerful music can be. It can lift you up when you’re low and calm you down when you’re anxious.
Music is a powerful tool for mood regulation and stress. The best part is, it’s always available to anyone who needs it.
In a world without music, the symphony of life would falter, its vibrant notes silenced, and its rhythm extinguished. As I contemplate the void that would fill my days, I am struck by the profound impact music has on every facet of my existence. From the gentle melodies that gently cradle my heart to the infectious rhythms that stir my soul, music weaves itself into the very fabric of my being, shaping my emotions, connecting me to others, and enriching every moment.
This post is like a chain letter. No, more like, Monkey See, Monkey Do. Or, how about Why not? Or… okay, I’ll stop! It’s simply because I enjoy …
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Curated Article from “Cristian’s Newsletter,” July 1, 2023
Storytelling Hacks: 6 Ways to Stop Being a Boring Blogger and Become Legendary
Storytelling is the holy grail. The unicorn. The lost city of Atlantis. It’s what every blogger lusts after with a sickness that makes heroin addiction look like a hiccup.
Anyone can churn out a “10 Ways to Do X” or “The Beginner’s Guide to Y.” But stories—stories are magic. They grab readers by the eyeballs and don’t let go. They spark emotions and forge connections. They spread through social media like a highly contagious disease.
Stories are rebellion. They break free from the tired formulas and supposed best practices. They toss aside optimization and metrics. They say “Screw the algorithms and the experts. I’m going to do what I want.”
Telling stories requires creativity. It demands mashing up random thoughts and experiences into something new. It means letting your freak flag fly without apology. It’s about connecting dots that have never been connected, like mating an octopus with a sports car.
The storyteller weaves bits of truth and fiction, wisdom and nonsense into a tale worth telling. There’s a dash of personal triumph here, a sprinkle of hard-won lesson there. Stories don’t give advice; they show the way.
So grab your readers by the hand and take them on an adventure. Give them a glimpse behind the scenes into what really makes you tick. Share your scars and your secrets. Ruffle some feathers. Piss some people off. Just make sure to leave them wanting more.
Because in the end, the story is all that remains. The story is the gift that keeps on giving. The story is the reason why we’re all here, searching and struggling and trying to make sense of this weird, wild world. So tell your stories. Shout them from the rooftops. Share them with anyone who will listen.
After all, stories are the holy grail. And everyone’s dying to drink from that cup.
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Looking back on life is like flipping through an old photo album. The memories are faded, but the emotions they stir up are still just as vivid.
Read a few of the more pressing couplets of Gorman’s poem, who came to these words after studying speeches of the likes of Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Winston Churchill — and wrote more than half the poem shortly after the events of January 6 insurrection.
A fun and educational video posted on YouTube by chess streamer Anna Cramling, 21, shows how someone can be sitting in the presence of greatness and have no idea. It’s also an excellent explanation of chess from a passionate street player.
1. Not believing in evil, demons, and in satan himself, would make the devil more powerful than us.
2. Regular confession and absolution of sins from the Sacrament of Penance would diminish the devil’s knowledge of our past sins that he can use against us in times of bondage or actual demonic possesion.
3. Our absolved sins from our confession, the injustice though many, that we did to others can be totally erased by Christ mercy and forgiveness, but the sins we do to ourselves, our lack or absence of faith, the unbelief, the unsteadfastness and changing mind we have for the One True God (His Truth, Way, and Life), our unforgiveness for who we are, the hurts and pains we leave in our hearts, the torments we give the Temple of the Holy Spirit in us, is the sin that we must pray hard for to be delivered as it will seek us out and the devil can use this against us. For the demon see all this and will use it against us if we can’t forgive ourselves.
4. We should not totally ignore praying to God everyday. Any demon cannot stand the constant suffering he gets when one is continuously praying and communing with God daily. Pray at all times.
5. The demon uses our guilt. He uses that to create continuous distraction and confusion in our life so as not to be focused and steadfast in our faith. To believe so many half-truths and take us further away from the True Faith.
6. The devil cannot defeat us in any battle as we are under the protection of the Supreme Sacrifice Jesus did to redeem our fallen nature. The only thing that can defeat us is ourselves. The devil will deceive us not to believe all the truths to solicit a wavering faith or indifference from us, our doubts, our inaction, our changing belief, our on-and-off personality, our ignorance or willful adoption of worldly truths will be used to defeat us. You can clearly see it happening in our present time. We are being deceive left and right to make us weak. We no longer believe in right or wrong but only on what is convenient in life. We sacrifice morality in exchange of worldly goods. We lost sight of the eternal enjoying the material pleasures of life. We are now afraid to do fraternal correction and too weak to call a spade a spade just to be civil and kind now but allowing our brethren to burn in hell in the future. And we turn our back from what is good and proper and embrace the bad for it benefit us.
7. Watch “The Pope’s Exorcist.” It is very entertaining. Informative as well about our Catholic Faith. It is fictional though (or it may be true as there is a Exorcist Priest named Fr. Gabrielle Amorth) and must not be a basis of absolute truth but it contains very relevant thoughts for consideration as you have read above. It is a “Must Watch!”
It seems crazy to me that the 90’s were 20+ years ago. I still feel like they were just a few years ago(I guess I’m showing my age here, right?). There were some amazing things in the 90’s like Doc Marten’s, platform shoes, thrift store jeans. We also had our fair share of fabulous 90s movies. There were some doozies in there too. But I made a list of the best of the best that you should definitely be watching with your kids!
Here I’ve gathered a few of my favorite 500+ page novels, plus several that have been hanging out on my TBR list a while. I’d love to hear your take on these titles and your other favorite lengthy reads in comments.
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