The Power Of Mind Is Everything!

A commercial for the United Negro College Fund which aired frequently in the 1980s used the slogan ‘the mind is a terrible thing to waste’. We’re not talking about college educations here today, but this is a slogan which is absolutely true. Your mind has lot more power than you might think; and the power of the mind is indeed a terrible thing to waste. When you can access the power your mind contains, you can use it to change the world around you for the better.

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The Art Museum Contains Some 1400 Miniatures

It’s unusual for a museum to have too many works to exhibit. That delightful fortune happened to the Uffizi Museum in Florence after the end of the Medici, Electress Anna Maria, resolved that the whole family compilation would go to the gallery in 1743. The consequences, assembled over quite a few centuries, were that one of the premium treasure troves of art anyplace on earth arrived there.

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The Joy Of Work

The Joy Of Work (even when it’s rock hard) Pencil drawing – Sylvia Roff-Marsh “When faced with a challenge, I just have to have a go at it.” Last Saturday evening, I found a beautiful lavender colored “pudding” stone (embedded with numerous small chips of red, white, and other colored…

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