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…dies at 83.

“In 1982, Newman and his Westport neighbor, writer A.E. Hotchner, started a company to market Newman’s original oil-and-vinegar dressing. Newman’s Own, which began as a joke, grew into a multimillion-dollar business selling popcorn, salad dressing, spaghetti sauce and other foods. All of the company’s profits are donated to charities. By 2007, the company had donated more than $175 million, according to its Web site.”

Bet you didn’t know that. $175m is a lot of money.

He also had a rare long-lasting Hollywood marriage with Joanne Woodward.

‘ “I have steak at home, why go out for hamburger?” Newman told Playboy magazine when asked if he was tempted to stray.’

He was an award winning actor, an activist, a professional racer.

RIP, Paul.

Read the full story here.

Yvonne is not sick just a bit unwell from NF a nervous system illness.Read her journey from 15yrs old to now at 22,a Psychology student,wrote a book,won national level youth award,raised funds,won friends,inspired other youths,& now she writes ‘I now know who I am’.A journey of self sustenance,accomplishment & self discovery.An everyman’s heroine.

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Yvonne is not sick just a bit unwell from NF a nervous system illness.Read her journey from 15yrs old to now at 22,a Psychology student,wrote a book,won national level youth award,raised funds,won friends,inspired other youths,& now she writes ‘I now know who I am’.A journey of self sustenance,accomplishment & self discovery.An everyman’s heroine.

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Here is an article on how should the end of anyone’s life come.

Click here for the article on bbc online.

It talks about how the last ten years of anyone’s life in Britain, on average, will be spent with a disabling disease, meaning long spells in hospitals or losing facilities, etc.

It talks about the pain and suffering when the old person is kept alive, just barely. It compares with animals where if it had been an animal it would have been kind to let it go.

What are your views? Please read the article and come back and comment here.

“The boss of a wedding shop needed a bodyguard to protect her from angry brides when they were left without dresses after the business went into liquidation.” – full report in the Guardian, UK.

Who says brides are feminine, demure, and all the other pleasant adjectives that go with them?

At a creditors’ meeting, the owner was met with “seething brides”. Some had ordered their wedding dresses months beforehand, and had to dish out additional money to make new dresses when they were left high and dry when the shop closed. One bride reported she was ‘hysterical’ on learning on the internet that had the shop closed.

So…grooms or otherwise, take the advice of the liquidator who was quoted – “I think getting a bodyguard was possibly the correct decision for her. Don’t mess with brides is all I can say.”

Graham was fifteen when he was home with just his mother and her visitor. His mother had a fit and died as a result of it. For years thereafter, he felt he should have been able to do more to prevent his mother’s death. Guilt. He fell into depression as an adult.

Emotional shut down, self-pity were two of his defensive tools to cope. Then :

“I finally decided to change my mind.

Although I’d faced my depression I had steadfastly, from day one, refused to cite my mum’s death as the cause of any of my problems. It seemed too obvious, too complacent. Above all it felt too much like blaming her. It wasn’t the only reason but it was by far the major one, and to admit that was a huge relief. I allowed myself. It wasn’t her fault. But it had happened, and it had hurt.”

Read his story in full here.

Strange – yet how normal to everyone – the human mind and psyche.

I guess everyone has their own ’secret guilt’, of a ‘not having done enough’ moment/time of life.

Do you have one to share?

Life.

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