thoughts on the news of the day: ground hog day revisitied

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            I wrote this email yesterday, but didn’t post it. What a difference a day makes.   

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            Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow.  That means six more weeks of winter ….maybe…… Phil, the infamous ground hog, is watched every year on February 2.  Legend has it that if the ground hog sees his shadow, then the cold will linger for six more weeks.  That’s the legend; however, Phil hardly ever gets it right.  He has seen his shadow way more times than not.  But sometimes it warms up early anyway.

            Isn’t it funny how we get things stuck in our head?  Things like, a ground hog actually knows something about the weather.  Or, that the Susan Komen Foundation will always put women first in its decisions.  There is a pretty big flurry right now about the fact that a foundation and organization that all of us have heard about and have supported in one way or another has arbitrarily decided to cut out funding for an agency that provides mammograms for women who are in most need of the assistance.  It makes me want to never buy anything pink ever again.

            Surely the Foundation will rethink this decision.  Surely they will see the error of their logic. The Susan Komen foundation does a lot of good for a lot of women – and even a few men.  But its demise could come quickly without some serious damage control.  Maybe the Board of the Susan Komen Foundation could get a clue from Punxsutawney Phil – take its head out of the sand and look around. 

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thoughts on the news of the day: balance

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            There’s a story today in the news about the effects of wearing high heels.  Now anyone who has ever worn them knows that they can’t be good.  Women of the fifties, who wore them when Marilyn did, sometimes exclaim that they are more comfortable in them and that they had gotten used to them over the years.  Actually, you don’t see them wearing heels much; women of that age seem to lean more toward SAS’s and other low heels with good support. 

            But back to supersonic heels; you know, the ones that seem to reach for the heavens.  Six and seven inches of stick and steel come between the Achilles tendon and the ground.  They seem to appear everywhere there is a super model or a celebrity.  The funny thing is, have you looked around lately?  No one, of any age seems to be wearing them on the street.  Now, I am not really surprised about that in our Ozark mountain town.  Even on young girls, we are more likely to see hunting boots, especially during hunting season, than stiletto heels.  But recently I went to the big city and even in the malls and restaurants, only a few gals tottered along on the streets looking down over the crowds in their skyscraper shoes. 

            I wonder where all the heels go that are sitting on shelves waiting to go home with some stylish young fashionista.  Do they go anywhere besides the sale rack?  And I guess the question in most folks mind would be, do we care?  Fashion will always be news.  Some will ooh and ah over the next new collection of this and that and some of us won’t even care. 

            And, in the grand scheme of things, that’s all about balance whether your feet are on the ground, or somewhere far above.

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