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Thursday, December 30, 2010. Today I am grateful for Doug Casey, a bit of a maverick, who tries to teach us to avoid stupidity and to learn about the true nature of economics and the market in order to protect our financial situation (individual and country).

DOUG CASEY, Chairman And best-selling author of The International Man, Crisis Investing and Strategic Investing, among others. Doug is a near-legendary speculator who has parlayed his contrarian instincts and encyclopedic knowledge of markets into a fortune for himself and many of the longtime readers of his advisory services.

Profile above from: http://www.caseyresearch.com/premium-publications/the-casey-report/?ppref=CWC012XX1210B

Text below from: http://www.caseyresearch.com/displayCwc.php?e=true

“My Favorite Quotes”

“Doug Casey, Chairman, Casey Research”

“When I first got into the habit of ending every edition of The International Speculator (and later The Casey Report) with a quote – starting in the 1990s – I almost always referred to at least one of my four favorite modern philosophers—Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Edward Gibbon, and H.L. Mencken. These are some of the quotes that I used from them (there are many more in the archives) so long ago now that many current subscribers either haven’t seen them, or have let them fade into the further reaches of their consciousness. I believe they belong in the very front of your consciousness. Take a few of the quotes you like best, and tape them on your computer or your fridge. They’ll provide a continuing measure of solace and amusement to current events.

“Let’s set the tone with Einstein. I don’t quote him often enough, but two of my all-time favorite observations are courtesy of him:

‘Two things are infinite – the universe and human stupidity. And I’m not sure about the former.’

‘After hydrogen, the most common thing in the universe is stupidity.’

“At the opposite end of the fame spectrum from Einstein is Mikhail Bakunin, the Russian anarchist. Bakunin, like Kropotkin, was a genuine revolutionary. And both were popular rabble-rousers. Unfortunately, neither had any understanding of economics – but they had a fantastic grip on the nature of the state, and a great sense of life. And at its best, their rhetoric absolutely sings – it’s the verbal equivalent of the 4th movement of Beethoven’s 9th symphony, or Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries.”

Thank you, Doug Casey, for helping to stretch our minds!

Doc Meek, Thursday, December 29, 2010, South Jordan, Utah, USA

Monday, December 27, 2010. Today I am grateful for those who put their inspired images and thoughts down for the rest of us.

Image from:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow

Remember this following quotation when you don’t feel good about yourself. You DO have a place even when you don’t feel it. Love and Blessings, Doc

“Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you.”
~ T.A. Barron (born 1952); writer

Thank you T.A. Barron, for sharing your convictions with us!

You give us all hope, even in our dark hours.

Doc Meek, Monday, December 27, 2010, at my own computer in South Jordan, Utah, USA

Sunday, December 26, 2010. Today I am grateful for my daughter, Charlene, for the life she leads and for the people whom she influences for good. She could not have given me a better Christmas present than Heidi S. Swinton’s biography about a hero of mine, “The Big Swede with the Big Heart”: Thomas S. Monson.

Image from: http://www.amazon.com/Rescue-Biography-Thomas-S-Monson/dp/160641898X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1293380283&sr=8-1

In Heidi S. Swinton’s thoroughgoing work, To the Rescue: The Biography of Thomas S. Monson, she points out his native optimism and his healing influences on the lives of regular people everywhere (page 5):

“He starts his first meeting of the day with ‘Top of the morning’ [which alone is enough to warm the cockles of the heart of this Irishman, me], he whistles in the middle of the afternoon, and he advocates with true sincerity finding ‘joy in the journey’ at every turn.

“Some of those [he serves] look put together on the outside but cry out . . . from within . . . .

“He hears them.

“He has continually offered the promise of peace, hope, and comfort in spite of challenges and grief, some seemingly insurmountable.”

[This is my kind of guy–how I wish I could emulate him more!!!]

“He quotes often the promise of Jesus Christ:

‘I will go before your face. I will be on your right hand and on your left, and my Spirit shall be in your hearts, and mine angels round about you, to bear you up’.”

This promise is from the Doctrine and Covenants (Section 84, Verse 88), one of the four volumes of scripture sacred to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:

(1) The Holy Bible (both the Old Testament and the New Testament)

(2) The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ

(3) The Pearl of Great Price

(4) The Doctine and Covenants

My hero, Tomas S. Monson, “the Big Swede with the Big Heart,” is currently President of the worldwide church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Thank you, Heidi S. Swinton, for bringing us the whole life of the man who brings wholeness to all who come within his sphere of influence!

Doc Meek, Sunday, December 26, 2010, at my daughter Charlene’s computer, in South Jordan, Utah, USA.

J. Collins Meek, Ph.D. (Doc Meek)
“What if you are smarter than you think?”
Learning Specialist https://docmeek.com

For brain health, ensure heart health (short video):
http://www.amiraclemolecule.com/themeekteam
More on heart health http://www.themeekteam.info
Ph (801) 971-1812 (Jeannette); Fax [801] 282-6026

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USA: 3688 W 9800 S, #138, South Jordan, UT 84095

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Friday, December 24, 2010.

Image from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowman

Today we are so grateful to Uinise Langi who sent us this beautiful animated Christmas card. We are also grateful for the talented animal-loving creators of this eCard. We wish we knew who the creators are so that we could acknowledge them and thank them:

http://ak.imgag.com/imgag/product/preview/flash/bws8Shell_fps24.swf?ihost=http://ak.imgag.com/imgag&brandldrPath=/product/full/el/&cardNum=/product/full/ap/3166187/graphic1

Jeannette & Doc Meek, Friday, December 24, 2010, South Jordan, Utah, USA.

Jeannette & Doc Meek, the “ghosts from Christmas past” . . . way past! 😮

(This was the only digitized photo I could find on short notice. Honest!)

Thursday, December 23, 2010. Once again I am grateful for GHNI (Global Hope Network Internation) and the faithful staff and volunteers who reach the poorest of the poor worldwide. They just sent me an email about “A Parable of the Three Committees.”

Phil Costello/Pak Lura

Photo above and text below from this website:  

http://globalhopenetwork.org/parable-of-the-three-committees?utm_source=GHNI+Email+List&utm_campaign=3bb7bca9b4-An_Unusual_Parable_of_the_Three_12_23_2010&utm_medium=email

“What? A Parable of the Three Committees? I know, it sounds a little odd – but stories are sometimes the best way to communicate, even to government officials! At least, that’s what GHNI’s Phil Costello and Jackie Rahardja discovered in a “heart-to-heart” they had with Pak Lura, a local government official in Indonesia. Check it out [here]:

http://globalhopenetwork.org/parable-of-the-three-committees?utm_source=GHNI+Email+List&utm_campaign=3bb7bca9b4-An_Unusual_Parable_of_the_Three_12_23_2010&utm_medium=email

“You also don’t want to miss this video clip of Jackie [explaining TCD (Transformational Community Development)] to community leaders.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCoN5-Ve_C4&feature=player_embedded

“It made me smile even though I don’t understand Indonesian. I guess laughter is contagious, no matter what language it’s in! 🙂

“Merry Christmas! – Naomi Schalm, GHNI Web Journalist”

Thank you Naomi Schalm,  Phil Costello, Jackie Rahardja, and Pak Lura!

Doc Meek, Thursday, December 23, 2010, at my wife’s computer, in South Jordan, Utah, USA.

J. Collins Meek, Ph.D. (Doc Meek)
“What if you are smarter than you think?”
Learning Specialist https://docmeek.com

For brain health, ensure heart health (short video):
http://www.amiraclemolecule.com/themeekteam
More on heart health http://www.themeekteam.info
Ph (801) 971-1812 (Jeannette); Fax [801] 282-6026

THE LEARNING CLINIC WORLDWIDE, INC.
CANADA: P.O. Box 3105, Sherwood Park, AB T8H 2T1
TONGA: Mele Taumoepeau, P.O. Box 60, Nuku’alofa
USA: 3688 W 9800 S, #138, South Jordan, UT 84095

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Wednesday, December 22, 2010. Today I am grateful for Paul Taubman.

Paul Taubman, The Gratitude Guru, who operates this website: http://www.AllAboutGratitude.com, from which I got the following Melody Beattie quote:

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what
we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into
acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can
turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger
into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings
peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
~ Melody Beattie

Whether you are a student or a teacher, gratitude will change the way you learn and teach (students and teachers are both learners and teachers, I think).

Explore gratitude, build up your personal awareness of gratitude, practice gratitude daily, hourly, minutely, and you will both learn better and teach better. Much better.

I promise you!

Thank you, Paul Taubman, for helping us lift up our hearts and minds to gratitude daily!

Doc Meek, Wednesday, December 22, 2010, on my daughter Charlene’s computer, at South Jordan, Utah, USA.

J. Collins Meek, Ph.D. (Doc Meek)
“What if you are smarter than you think?”
Learning Specialist https://docmeek.com

For brain health, ensure heart health (short video):
http://www.amiraclemolecule.com/themeekteam
More on heart health http://www.themeekteam.info
Ph (801) 971-1812 (Jeannette); Fax [801] 282-6026

THE LEARNING CLINIC WORLDWIDE, INC.
CANADA: P.O. Box 3105, Sherwood Park, AB T8H 2T1
TONGA: Mele Taumoepeau, P.O. Box 60, Nuku’alofa
USA: 3688 W 9800 S, #138, South Jordan, UT 84095

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Tuesdy, December 21, 2010. Today I am so grateful for people like Wendy Shalit, who buck the trends created by “fashion” designers who seem to constantly exploit women.

Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It’s Not Bad to Be Good – Hardcover – Bargain Price (June 26, 2007) by Wendy Shalit

Wendy Shalit’s Girls Gone Mild (2007) is a delight for me because I have been asking for years (in family counseling and public and private contexts of all kinds):

“Why do girls (and women) follow blindly so-called fashion leaders who don’t have the girls (or women’s) best interests at heart?”

More than fifty years ago now, I read in Reader’s Digest this quixotic statement:

“Girls consider boys rude and uncouth when they stare at what they are trying so hard to display.”

I always thought that if girls and women want the respect they so richly deserve, they should happily flout those that demand that they expose themselves with revealing clothing. If you want people to see you as an intelligent person with a great personality, it is not wise to display powerful distractors to the contrary. We are more than sexual beings. We want to cultivate the display of our whole selves, not just a distorted one-sided view.

Of course, we men don’t feel free to say to an intelligent woman in the workplace, or at school, “Your breasts are showing.” What we can say (and I do this where it is appropriate) to a woman who is not flaunting her sexuality: “Thank you for dressing modestly.” This conveys a supportive context for the person without openly criticizing others who are unwittingly presenting themselves in an unhelpful way.

Get Wendy Shalit’s book from your library, or go buy a copy from Amazon.com.

Thank you Wendy Shalit!

Doc Meek, Tuesday, December 21, 2010, at my daughter Tanya’s computer, in Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA, and later today to be en route from Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA, to South Jordan, Utah, USA.

J. Collins Meek, Ph.D. (Doc Meek)
“What if you are smarter than you think?”
Learning Specialist https://docmeek.com

For brain health, ensure heart health (short video):
http://www.amiraclemolecule.com/themeekteam
More on heart health http://www.themeekteam.info
Ph (801) 971-1812 (Jeannette); Fax [801] 282-6026

THE LEARNING CLINIC WORLDWIDE, INC.
CANADA: P.O. Box 3105, Sherwood Park, AB T8H 2T1
TONGA: Mele Taumoepeau, P.O. Box 60, Nuku’alofa
USA: 3688 W 9800 S, #138, South Jordan, UT 84095

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Monday, December 20, 2010. Today I am grateful (again) for books and for gentle energetic therapist [non-touching massage therapist] Michael Bradford. If you missed my previous post on Michael Bradford, here it is: “All learning is a process.” – Michael Bradford

The Healing Energy of Your Hands – Paperback (Sept. 1, 1995) by Michael Bradford

Thursday, December 16, 2010. Today I am grateful for everybody, even those who caused me much grief and agony. Here is a book I just read about second chances (and third and fourth and fifth chances) after you have seemingly failed miserably.

The Season of Second Chances: A Novel – Hardcover –

Doc Meek, Thursday, December 16, 2010, at the Strathcona Public Library, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA

J. Collins Meek, Ph.D. (Doc Meek)
“What if you are smarter than you think?”
Learning Specialist https://docmeek.com

For brain health, ensure heart health (short video):
http://www.amiraclemolecule.com/themeekteam
More on heart health http://www.themeekteam.info
Ph (801) 971-1812 (Jeannette); Fax [801] 282-6026

THE LEARNING CLINIC WORLDWIDE, INC.
CANADA: P.O. Box 3105, Sherwood Park, AB T8H 2T1
TONGA: Mele Taumoepeau, P.O. Box 60, Nuku’alofa
USA: 3688 W 9800 S, #138, South Jordan, UT 84095

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Wednesday, December 15, 2010. Today I am grateful for the courage of scientists and others who are willing to raise the flag of warning about hazards to learning and health that are generally ignored–or even resisted–in our Western  industrialized culture.

Doubt is Their Product: How Industry’s Assault on Science Threatens Your Health – Hardcover (Apr. 23, 2008) by David Michaels