There was a King & Queen Pageant held at the Richmond River and
Lakes Festival on Friday, July 21st, 2006. 5 boys and 9 girls
competed for the honor of representing Richmond as the King and Queen for the coming year.
In this story you'll get a sampling of each contestant's interview and see the crowning of both the new King and Queen.
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famous freshly hand patted hamburgers. Open every morning at 6:00 am,
enjoy their home-style breakfasts along with their daily soups and
pies. Friday nights include all you can eat fish frys and on Saturday
night you'll enjoy BBQ ribs. Take out is also available by calling ahead at 320-597-3838
Receptive Choice is the second part of Life's Cosmic Equation that empowers you to discover the path in life that matches your creative power. It frees you from the shackles of family and social norms which allows you to break free into the horizon of your unique and personal destiny in life.
To apply Receptive Choice into your daily life requires a four step process. Stop, Look, Choose and Act. You first have to STOP what you're doing long enough to step back from the patterns of your past. Take some time to LOOK in the mirror and see yourself for who you truly are at this moment in time. How does what you see identify, support and further develop your Creative Power in life? CHOOSE if what you see and where you are is where you want to be in the future. Finally, ACT upon the choices you make to better match a path that will guide you to life's destiny and your chosen cosmic legacy.
Receptive Choice is really the golden ticket, the precious key, to understanding
how to take total control and responsibility of your life. Receptive Choice means
you’re going to be open and available to your creative energy. You will
consciously work to understand, nurture and develop yourself, so you can
maximize your unique journey in the universe. You will learn to accept
responsibility for your choices and purpose in life. Receptive Choice is
understanding that you control the steering wheel, brakes, and gas pedal of your
life.
Since life began as we know it, all living organisms have been a part of the cosmic
law of unity. Everything exists in unity with something else. Nothing lives in total
isolation or independence. All living things are constantly evolving in a
continuous dance with similar species, toward greater complexity and higher
forms of interaction. This activity has been studied and documented by the
science community that even simple cells have social and cosmic interaction. We
know organic living cells, birds, fish, mammals all show signs of interaction,
repelling, and attraction. We may not think they are given Receptive Choice, but
they fully demonstrate through their capacity of survival, the ability to adapt and
evolve through space and time.
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Last weekend, the Friends of the Library and Cold Spring Brewery teamed up to put on the third annual OKTOBERFEST! The weather was gorgeous, and many residents from around the area gathered to enjoy the food and festivities. In this story, you’ll hear from one of the Friends of the Library key leaders, Pat Grelson, as she tells us more about this fun and worthwhile event.
It was my first day back to work since my brother Bob had unexpectedly passed
away. My primary mentor in life, the man I considered as my second father, the
guy I always aspired to be like, was taken away from me in an instant, he just fell
down one day in his cabin and died at age 63. For the first time in my life, I, the
professional memorial counselor, was faced with the sobering reality my clients
bring to me every day, the fact that death and the loss of loved ones suck! The
reality was, I was still suffering a bushel basket of grief and my mental state was in
no way ready to handle the emotional anguish of another grieving client.
But sometimes miracles happen and the moment you feel like the storms of life are
about to drown you in sorrow, someone throws you a life jacket of hope. That
morning, a couple walked through the office door who had traveled a hundred
miles to see me. I had never met Kris and Rod before but our coming together that
day was surely divine providence. The same week my brother had died, they too
suffered a startling loss. Their son Miles, a strapping young man on the high school
wrestling team, had suddenly collapsed and died during a wrestling match. He had
been born with a rare heart defect that remained undetected until that fatal moment
on the mat, in front of all of his team mates. The parents, still in shock and
consumed by their grief, were looking to find a memorial that would appropriately
represent their cherished son.
We were three weeping souls that auspiciously came together that day and poured our buckets of pain and suffering onto the floor of my office. Normally it's my job to ask penetrating emotional questions to help clients dig deeper into the meaningful stories of their loved ones. I instinctively act out of love and care for the grieving family. But today was uniquely different.
Today, I desperately needed
love and support for the loss of my brother as much as Kris and Rod looked for
comfort with their son. We were mutual guiding spirits that day and established a
trusting bond together that would buoy us over the next couple months as the
memorial design process for their son's monument evolved.
It was during our final meeting together that Kris turned to me out in the parking lot
and looked directly into my eyes, "Don, thank you for helping me understand and
process Miles' death. You, better than anyone inside or outside my family, helped
me connect to the loving gift he still is to me." I replied that fortuitously she had
done the same and helped me rise from the emotional abyss of my brother's death
to understand how his spirit stills lives in me. Together, we remembered the gifts,
lessons and stories that both Bob and Miles gave to life. We gave honor and respect
to the legacy of their lives and recognized their unending spirit within us.
Death is just a reality of life and it is a gift that helps us anchor understanding, appreciation and the value of living in the moment. For the past 30
years, I have built my career around helping people connect with the stories that
represent their loved ones and finding ways to represent those legacy memories on
a granite memorial.
It was the most successful car show the Cold Spring Hometown Pride Days has seen in its 27 years. This year we had a chance to interview Wally Eisenschenk who is the President of the Cold Spring Street Machines. The cars range from early Fords to completely re-built cars. There also is an exhibit for vintage tractors and classic snowmobiles.
******************************************************* This story is sponsored by Richmond Auto Parts. Richmond Auto Parts is you local NAPA Auto Parts Dealer and much more. You'll find RV & Small Engine parts, Marine-Boat & Motor supplies, Hydraulic Hose fabrication and the latest technology to turn brake drums and rotors. Be sure to attend the 2007 Top 20 Car Show on Saturday, September 8th, 2007. Come enjoy the coolest cars and hot dogs, pop and door prizes. All proceeds go to the Richmond Fire Department.
So who or what really controls your life? If you're true to yourself as it relates to all the controlling influences that surround you, control of your life's direction is a monumental challenge. If there are any choices in life, they're based on the options provided by societal norms, options that have nothing to do with our creative power and personal destiny.
We're faced with another life paradox. None of us want to feel that our life is being controlled by anyone or anything based on our God given freedoms, and yet to live in a world based on success and status we have to conform to the values and rules of the given social system.
Once again in Dancing With The Elephant, where the elephant represents the society you live in, it is receptive choice that will empower you to choose a direction in life that will enhance your creative power and to have faith that you will reach your cosmic destiny and legacy. Although the actual world around you will change very little, your perception of it and your relationship to it will match your personal values and meaning.
This has been a major research topic for the past century involving famous names like Freud, Rank, Kierkegaard and Ernest Becker. Men who spent most of their lives trying to explain how it is that most of mankind avoids epidemic levels of psychological neurosis and psychosis. Day to day life in our world can be a pretty crazy place and its amazing that more of us don't choose the psychotic path.
The reality is, in the big picture we have very little control over anything in life, but we do have control how we perceive it and how we react to it. Life's Cosmic Equation can be a powerful tool to bring greater happiness and fulfillment to your daily life. Understanding and applying the equation will empower you to see life differently and to make it your life, your destiny and your legacy.
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So who or what really controls your life? If you're true to yourself as it relates to all the controlling influences that surround you, control of your life's direction is a monumental challenge. If there are any choices in life, they're based on the options provided by societal norms, options that have nothing to do with our creative power and personal destiny.
We're faced with another life paradox. None of us want to feel that our life is being controlled by anyone or anything based on our God given freedoms, and yet to live in a world based on success and status we have to conform to the values and rules of the given social system.
Once again in Dancing With The Elephant, where the elephant represents the society you live in, it is receptive choice that will empower you to choose a direction in life that will enhance your creative power and to have faith that you will reach your cosmic destiny and legacy. Although the actual world around you will change very little, your perception of it and your relationship to it will match your personal values and meaning.
This has been a major research topic for the past century involving famous names like Freud, Rank, Kierkegaard and Ernest Becker. Men who spent most of their lives trying to explain how it is that most of mankind avoids epidemic levels of psychological neurosis and psychosis. Day to day life in our world can be a pretty crazy place and its amazing that more of us don't choose the psychotic path.
The reality is, in the big picture we have very little control over anything in life, but we do have control how we perceive it and how we react to it. Life's Cosmic Equation can be a powerful tool to bring greater happiness and fulfillment to your daily life. Understanding and applying the equation will empower you to see life differently and to make it your life, your destiny and your legacy.
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So who is right, science or religion? The question centers around the third component of Life's Cosmic Equation (CP + RC + F (Faith) * T = CL ), the topic of Faith. Faith is normally a word associated with religious beliefs. Most of the time we don't think of faith being a part of the secular scientific approach to solving the mysteries of the universe.
When we Dance With The Elephant, faith is the common link that bridges both communities. A scientist places belief in a theory or a hypothesis on the basis of limited evidence and as a starting point for further investigation. It is faith that motivates the cosmologist to venture into the unknown trusting and confident that new discoveries will be made. That same faith is present in the religious belief system based on spiritual apprehension rather than scientific proof or validation. God and the doctrines of the specific religion become the unknown requiring the believer to have faith.
Both science and religion are witnessing what Ray Kurzweil calls the law of accelerating returns. We live in a world where the advances made in human-created technology are expanding at an exponential rate. Not just one plus one, but two times two times two. Think of walking 30 steps in a linear world and you just walked the distance of each step times 30. Walk 30 steps in the exponential world and you just covered the distance of a single step times 1 billion. Science and religion are both facing an immediate future involving exponential rates of change and only through faith will civilization have the capacity to dance with it.
In a world of exponential accelerating change, both science and religion are pitted against the same great unknown. Hopefully, through our common star dust origins, there is a story that can bridge and unite the divide that existed in the past between these two faith based groups. Each of us must apply the entire Life's Cosmic Equation to our lives and dig deeper into the question of what will bring purpose and meaning to our lives in this new exponential evolving world we're now entering into.
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Modern day science approximates that 50% of who you are is based on your genetics. The DNA passed on to you by your parents and the 400,000 years of human generations before them, make up half of the composition of your personality. It's what you've got to work with and there's nothing you can do about it.
Now its the other 50% that is a bit more interesting in the fact that it is totally predicated by the environment we grow up in and the choices we personally make within those surroundings. Since birth most of us have lived with parents, siblings and relatives who had certain traditions, values and norms. This group of people you live with are located in a geographical location that has a dominant culture, religion and societal framework. All these pieces of the puzzle play a role in forming your personality, character and temperament. To exist with in a social system, one must conform to the norms and values of that system.
Don grew up in an Irish family where the gift of story telling and the attention it would bring you was a part of daily life. In his early years of life, he interacted with the world for the sole purpose of receiving approbation and praise in return. He was always asking himself, "What do people think of me?", "Do they like me?", "Do they think I'm funny and a great person to be with?" This tendency for self-affirming feedback became an addiction for Don and eventually approached neurosis. Finally, it was when people would give him positive feedback and he didn't believe they were being genuine that Don's sole purpose in life took a deep nose dive.
Maturity and true friends helped Don move beyond his personal paradox and to begin approaching life with a new paradigm. Don realized that his perception of personal worth and value could no longer be measured by the response of the people around him. He needed to be strong enough, courageous enough and worthy enough to love himself for just being who he is. He was okay with the fact that someone might not like him and might not enjoy his colorful story telling.
Researcher/Author Brene Brown has spent much of her life researching the human dynamics of shame, blame and guilt. For most of us, these three words can play a big part in our daily lives. Ironically, all three words require the receiver to agree with the blamer. In other words, if I am going to feel guilty about something I'm accused of being responsible for, I have to receptively choose to accept the guilt internally. When you learn to Dance With The Elephant, you can learn to shield yourself from these energy sucking demons and let them bounce off you like ping pong balls. You have the power of receptive choice to frame and direct your destiny in life.
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Jill's
Cafe in Richmond is the place for home-style cooked meals and their
famous freshly hand patted hamburgers. Open every morning at 6:00 am,
enjoy their home-style breakfasts along with their daily soups and
pies. Friday nights include all you can eat fish frys and on Saturday
night you'll enjoy BBQ ribs.
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