Friday, January 23, 2015

Veterans, we DO care!

http://foundcom.org/2015/01/veteran-finds-home-sweet-home-at-capital-studios/

occasionally we get questioned about "veterans" When moms or dads are deployed, we treat them as single parents who have kids that need to be taken care of, dogs that need to be fostered until their owner returns, and assistance to adjust to the real world once they come back. They hardly ever ask for anything......we get it.
 

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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

emotional intelligence for parents

 
EQ-101 for Parents -- join the pilot starting this week -- consider being a mentor to others -- it's a beautiful free online collaboration for emotional intelligence
 
announcerFullName
 
Joshua Freedman
Change Agent & EQ Pioneer
 
 
As a parent, would you like more emotional intelligence? If you could be more emotionally aware, and more "in charge" of your own emotions, what would happen?

See 2-min video here: http://youtu.be/mlro8JZzLIA
Sign up for pilot here: http://eq.org/projects-2/eq-101-for-parents-phase-3/

The beta version of the course will be live in next 48 hours. Next week we being with optional weekly drop-in discussion times.

You can read more about it here: http://eq.org/learn/courses/parents/
 

Friday, January 9, 2015

The Computer Ministry (CPU4U)

is offering
FREE computer classes
beginning January 14th!

COMPUTER BASICS
will run for
5 consecutive Wednesdays.
Class time begins at 7 pm
Call 303-483-8446 to register.
Space is limited so call today!

www.cpu4u.org
cpu4u@southeastcc.org
 
for advanced training go to your local library. They have consistently great classes free of charge

New years resolution

mom had a great idea for new years resolutions. She picks just one word and writes it on her bathroom mirror or by her phone as a reminder. Hers was KISS (keep it simple sister)... what's yours?

Thursday, January 8, 2015

you sure know how to pick them.....

That phrase used to infuriate me. Of all the ignorant things to say this was adding insult to injury. Girls, don't buy into this dumbassery for even one second. Here is why.

I had purchased a beautiful, highest quality, expensive hammock for the perfect spot in my back yard. I loved to lay in it and look up at the tree, the stars, the clouds. Life was so good and perfect.
One day I entered paradise (my back yard) and my hammock was shredded.
The squirrels shamelessly chewed through the cords making my hammock unsafe to enjoy. Squirrels don't discriminate. I had something they wanted. I did not look for a squirrel. The squirrel found my hammock.

My advice? Cut your losses, cut your losses, cut your losses. (with squirrels and squirrely nuts)

Happy, merry, blessed 2015

A few girls had the need to go to the movies to see a chick flick.

As we passed the tissues to dab away the tears that wrecked our mascara we felt like silly ninnies for getting caught up in the emotions of characters in a movie, and strangely more human because we related with empathy in spite of it being a movie.

Being "human" connects us with humanity on a deeper, spiritual level. It transcends the competitive bars and masks of religion, class, color, condition, education, culture, fashion, money, age, gender, etc. and inter connects us all at the core in real time. Once we mature to value ourselves and others as humans we cease to be whatchamacallits, human "resource/commodity", a body, chattel, superior, dispensable. We live and let live. We respect and honor all humans (including ourselves) without self righteous judgment.

2014 has been an exciting and productive year collaborating with you. Together, we have gotten good at keeping our interactions divinely human and authentic. Here at Call Mom, we look forward to another year of simplifying our outreach with a sincere desire to helping each other build better lives.

Hugs,
Mom