Today Is More Joyful Than Yesterday, And Tomorrow Will Be More Joyful Still.
~Jonathan-Lockwood Huie
GOOD MORNING FAMILY!
That's right, it's LABOR DAY. For those who don't know, Here n the United States, Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of their country.
For most working people, labor day means a well deserved day off from work where they can stay with their families, rest, go shopping, etc.
But since I've been out of work, labor day is just a day where I can't go down to the unemployment office to find work, or call my staffing agency to tell them that I'm available for work... but i digress.
I hope everybody out there enjoys their Labor Day.
Joy is cultivated through the way that you live your life.
When a person integrates spirit into everyday life and expresses loving kindness to the self and others—joy naturally follows.
--Selacia
FROM HUMANITY'S TEAM
O.K., now since today is LABOR DAY, there's something I want to talk about. and that's our current federal wage, and why we should raise it.
Most minimum-wage earners work for big corporations. These corporations keep giving their CEOs bigger bonuses every year, but then claim they can’t afford to pay their employees.
The current federal minimum wage – $7.25 per hour – is not enough for a full-time worker to lift a family out of poverty. It is lower than it was in the 1960s, adjusted for inflation. In fact, most minimum wage workers have to go on public assistance.
I'll talk about this more in the future, but for now, I'll let the video below talk about this in a little more detail:
Published on Nov 28, 2012 In America, people who work hard should be able to afford basic necessities like groceries, rent, childcare and transportation. While fast food corporations reap the benefits of record profits, workers earn $7.25/hr and are barely getting by—many are forced to be on public assistance despite having a job. Raising pay for fast food workers will benefit workers and strengthen the overall economy.
Join the movement to support New York City workers in moving FAST FOOD FORWARD: www.fastfoodforward.org
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------------HEAVEN LETTERS------------
Heavenletters™, bringing Earth closer to Heaven.
HEAVEN is here to reach every soul on earth to reawaken:
* Our connection to God *
* Our belief in ourselves *
* Our awareness of our shared worthiness to God *
* Peace on Earth *
God is always bringing us closer to Him.
Heavenletter #4645 You Are Your Own Storyteller, August 13, 2013
God said:
In terms of your own life on Earth, you are the receiver of your life, the perceiver, and your own benefactor or thief. You may well be the one who steals joy from you, denies you joy, makes sure you don’t have joy, reprimands you so you won’t have joy. You may say that someone else, a particular person outside of you, denies you. Yet there is something within yourself that denies you. You are the whole story. You are the whole kit and caboodle. You are your own story-teller.
Odds are you will fault anyone but yourself. On the other hand, there are those who seem proficient in faulting themselves for all personal troubles and everyone else’s too. It is really true that everyone is responsible for everyone else, even when that seems impossible.
Too much or too little seem to be the by-word of many of My Children on Earth. There is so much that goes on in life that you are not yet aware of. There are shades and shades of meaning to your life and more and more. You, yourself, are multiplied. You appear in front of yourself, behind yourself, on your right, on your left in addition to which, everyone is you, you in another form of you, a reflection of you. How distant you may have become to forms of yourself.
There is no blame. There is no reprisal. There is no fault. From a millennium of fault you find, the one fault could be wrapped up as ignorance. You have called ignorance a fault. Perhaps that is the only fault there is. You may not know how to put two and two together, yet you can well be fluent in awareness of the significance of the heart, yours and others’.
Every single person in the world is doing the best he or she can, and there is an aspect of you in everyone, those you adore and those whom you do not tolerate well. There is something for you to learn from every person and every situation. With or without words, everyone appears before you so that you may learn a new aspect of yourself. The person may well not know why he is there or why he said what he did or didn’t.
Don’t overdo on the learning, beloveds. This learning is not to figure out or analyze. Let your mind be still. Your mind is not to tell your heart what to feel.
Your heart is simple.
Come from a place where no one disappoints you, beloveds. No one has to be what you want. Everyone has to be what he or she wants. If someone is disloyal to you, for instance, it’s all your perception anyway. Whether your perception is correct or incorrect, why would anyone have to be what you want? Why do you need someone to stick up for you? What makes you think so? What defense do you think you need? And why must another give it? Because you are loyal? You are beginning to see how expectation is a demand and barrier.
In your heart, thank the one you saw as a signal to hurt your heart and be glad for the awareness you gained, and now move on.
Your life is not meant to bounce off other people, nor are all your thoughts to bounce off your own opinions. Other people have other things on their mind. What others say or do has nothing to do with you. You are not the subject of another’s life.
You have heard that there is good in everything. Find the good. Find the good in it, and you gain. You are ahead. You are far more than your perceptions, your experiences, your possessions, your faults, your promises. You are far more than hurt feelings. You are far more than any perceived aspect of you, and others are also far more than any aspect you perceive of them and insist on.
http://heavenletters.org/you-are-your-own-storyteller.html
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----------THE MUSIC CORNER----------
Welcome again to the music corner, where I feature music and musicians that I think are, for the lack of a better word, awesome!!!
This week, I'm featuring one of the best bands in the world, "THE KI". O.K., Now Let's start the day with "BREATHE" by The KI.
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FROM THEIR WEBSITE WWW.THEKI.ME:TheKI is an ensemble that fuses pop, jazz and electronic music with modern and ancient wisdom. With Roxie Sakura as the lead singer, theKI features conservatory-trained members who have performed with world-class artists such as Stevie Wonder and John Legend, along with spoken word artist Sean Raymond Hill. As a Iranian-Japanese-American, Roxie is dedicated through her songwriting and activism to shining light on some of the darkest injustices and inner struggles still facing women worldwide today, and recently performed for LA Rising for Women as part of V-DAY's One Billion Rising. "KI" stands for "energy" in Japanese; theKI combines beautiful instrumental arrangements with digital grooves to create movement, dance, and transformative moments of inner reflection. By making darkness conscious, as Carl Jung wrote, theKI exists to expand this awareness by first inspiring and empowering the individual.
THE ENSEMBLE
Our ensemble features a TAIKO DRUMMER (representing the heart of the warrior) as well as a SPOKEN WORD ARTIST, electrified UPRIGHT BASSIST, and a HIP-HOP HARPIST. If the stage is large enough we also include a 6 piece dance crew. (Credits Include: Stevie Wonder, Yo-Yo Ma, Timbaland, and Wynton Marsalis, 50 Cent, Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, Chris Brown, Chaka Khan)
* Roxie Sakura -Lead Vocalist
* Lucas Wallis -Executive Producer, Upright Bassist
* Alex Romero -Electric Bass
* Cy Passley -Guitar
* Antonio Dangond -Keyboards, Music Director
* Fitz Harris, David Borne Jr. Lamont Sydnor -Drums
* Sean Hill Raymond -Spoken Word
* Warren McDonald -Taiko Drums
Background Vocals
* Danielle Carter, Amanda Espinoza and Rachel Lynn Sebastian,
* Royce McCalman -Vocal Arranger
Recording, Mixing and Mastering @ Konscious Studios by Ric McRae and Konscious Kreiger
The KI returns after our summer 2013 Kickstarter limited edition release to greet you with a new soundscape where acoustic meets digital in our Fall 2013 Concert Series, starting with our first show @8PM on September 12th, "Live Interactive Radioactive."
This is our first of many interactive internet live concerts where you can get up close and personal from anywhere in the world with theKI from the convenience of your living room. Ask us questions and talk with us about how we can continue to change the world together in 2014.
The show features redesigned songs with jazzy harmonizations over ambient grooves jam-packed with inspirational quotes. Roxie Sakura's dreamy echo-laced vocals are enhanced through the iRIG. Sean Hill backs up his spoken word with his own beat-boxing breakdowns. Antonio Dangond heads into space on his new Nord Stage 2 synthesizer, and Lucas Francis shifts between electric and upright bass while stomping on a panoply of pedals. You can dance or you can chill, but either way you are gonna feel inspired!
TIX HERE: http://www.stageit.com/theki/fall_2013_concert_series_live_interactive_radioactive/27967
Or visit: http://www.theki.me/
And now, as always, I'm gonna end this post with the most beautiful song in this whole, entire world.
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When you master gratitude, you perceive God in everything, and your reaction is love and gratitude for the greatest gift, which is life.
~don Miguel Ruiz
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