What I learned this week: Sometimes when we are down about something, we have to realize we may not perceive things the same way on the next day, so I take time to pause, swallow and begin again!
What I am grateful for: I have so many friends who are much smarter than me. I am very lucky that way!
Living Smart will air Dr. Bruce Perry friday February 5th at 10pm. Dr. Perry is the go to psychiatrist for dealing with children and trauma, so he just got back from Haiti. In Living Smart we tried to find ways to make sure children grow up with as little trauma as possible. He is really concerned about how technology and our way of life is keeping children from enjoying adult company, long in depth conversations, a better attention span and most importantly meaningful relationships. Kids are now so used to texting and being connected with everything but real people, he is afraid we will slowly lose our human connections. I would love to hear from you. What do you do to keep your children more connected to you and other humans?
Latina Voices present Juan Sepulveda, Genesys works and Marilyn Logan on Feb. 28th at 2:30pm
Monday
Living Smart and helping those in need
What I learned this week:
Many Americans are generous and compassionate, which is something I have always known. As a nation we have raised more than 400 million dollars for Haiti. It is amazing what a ten dollar
donation can do. Technology is helping us make smaller donations. This time it is through text messaging.
What I am grateful for: I love my work and I know it makes a difference.
I am asking a question many who gave to Haiti are asking. What happens next. Will the money be used properly or will it be stolen by corrupt government officials or businesses? We can just hope that the NGO's and the Media will be on top of this, following the money. Haiti will need to be rebuilt. This is a new opportunity for a very poor nation and this is why I want to spend some time explaining why I give to microfinance organizations. I like to donate to those in need but I want to make sure we can lift them out of poverty with economic programs that work. This will eventually apply to Haiti too. Poverty is often created by economic, social and political structures that don't allow people to reach their highest potential. Finding a microlending organization you can trust requires research. I have my favorite but there are many out there worth investigating.
I just finished reading the book, "the Boy who Harnessed the Wind by 14 year old William Kamkwamba from Malawi, one of the poorest nations in the world. Famine stricken and unable to go to school because his family coulnd't afford it, William spends hours in the local library reading physics and engineering books and eventually builds a windmill (creating electric wind) that will change the life of his village, family, and eventually his country. Today, William is attending a school in South Africa on scholarship. He is a respected inventor and is building schools and clinics in his country. There are thousands if not millions of Williams in the world, (including America which by the way has 13 to 17 percent of its population living below the poverty line). If we can figure out how to help them effectively, then we can really change the structures that keep people poor.
This Sunday Living with Ethics on Living Smart at 10pm.
Many Americans are generous and compassionate, which is something I have always known. As a nation we have raised more than 400 million dollars for Haiti. It is amazing what a ten dollar
donation can do. Technology is helping us make smaller donations. This time it is through text messaging.
What I am grateful for: I love my work and I know it makes a difference.
I am asking a question many who gave to Haiti are asking. What happens next. Will the money be used properly or will it be stolen by corrupt government officials or businesses? We can just hope that the NGO's and the Media will be on top of this, following the money. Haiti will need to be rebuilt. This is a new opportunity for a very poor nation and this is why I want to spend some time explaining why I give to microfinance organizations. I like to donate to those in need but I want to make sure we can lift them out of poverty with economic programs that work. This will eventually apply to Haiti too. Poverty is often created by economic, social and political structures that don't allow people to reach their highest potential. Finding a microlending organization you can trust requires research. I have my favorite but there are many out there worth investigating.
I just finished reading the book, "the Boy who Harnessed the Wind by 14 year old William Kamkwamba from Malawi, one of the poorest nations in the world. Famine stricken and unable to go to school because his family coulnd't afford it, William spends hours in the local library reading physics and engineering books and eventually builds a windmill (creating electric wind) that will change the life of his village, family, and eventually his country. Today, William is attending a school in South Africa on scholarship. He is a respected inventor and is building schools and clinics in his country. There are thousands if not millions of Williams in the world, (including America which by the way has 13 to 17 percent of its population living below the poverty line). If we can figure out how to help them effectively, then we can really change the structures that keep people poor.
This Sunday Living with Ethics on Living Smart at 10pm.
Friday
Helping Haiti, What I learned and NO man is an island
What I learned: One of the hardest things to do in life is to walk in other people's shoes, but if we did, we would be more compassionate, less judgemental and I believe, much happier.
In Gratitude. I am grateful that I live in a country that functions well. I will never take that for granted. We have electrical power, water and food available if we have a catastrophe. I am thinking of Haiti right now.
As I am taping My next season of Living Smart, a destructive earthquake hit Haiti the poorest country in the western Hemisphere. I could not help but think about the devastation and despair, those people who already have nothing are facing. In one of our shows, Dr. Chitra Divakaruni, a novelist and poet discussed the poem, No man is an Island by John Donne. In the poem, we learn something many know and that is. We are all interconnected. We are human and we depend on each other. The challenge is some people believe that we should only help Americans, or those who look like us or those who profess our religion, have our same color or belong to the same social class. Here is what I say. Close your eyes. You are at home with two children and your husband. The next moment the house you have lived in all your life falls on your head. You can barely move from the pain. Your kids are under rubble. They are crying. You call your husband and he is dead. You desperately try to get out of the house to get help, but you see, every school, every hospital, every police station is in rubbles too. Now. My question to you is. What would you do to help this woman?
When people tell me, so called religious people. We can't afford to help those people. We don't have any money. We are in debt. My answer is. Walk in that woman's shoes, if you can and if you can't, I hope you never ever face an earthquake in your life.
Pray for Haiti if you can't give and if you can give. You'll know what to do.
Go to Consumer reports.org to know how to best donate to Haiti.
In Gratitude. I am grateful that I live in a country that functions well. I will never take that for granted. We have electrical power, water and food available if we have a catastrophe. I am thinking of Haiti right now.
As I am taping My next season of Living Smart, a destructive earthquake hit Haiti the poorest country in the western Hemisphere. I could not help but think about the devastation and despair, those people who already have nothing are facing. In one of our shows, Dr. Chitra Divakaruni, a novelist and poet discussed the poem, No man is an Island by John Donne. In the poem, we learn something many know and that is. We are all interconnected. We are human and we depend on each other. The challenge is some people believe that we should only help Americans, or those who look like us or those who profess our religion, have our same color or belong to the same social class. Here is what I say. Close your eyes. You are at home with two children and your husband. The next moment the house you have lived in all your life falls on your head. You can barely move from the pain. Your kids are under rubble. They are crying. You call your husband and he is dead. You desperately try to get out of the house to get help, but you see, every school, every hospital, every police station is in rubbles too. Now. My question to you is. What would you do to help this woman?
When people tell me, so called religious people. We can't afford to help those people. We don't have any money. We are in debt. My answer is. Walk in that woman's shoes, if you can and if you can't, I hope you never ever face an earthquake in your life.
Pray for Haiti if you can't give and if you can give. You'll know what to do.
Go to Consumer reports.org to know how to best donate to Haiti.
Tuesday
Cold Weather, Global Warming and What I learned
What I learned: When you accept people exactly where they are, you avoid a lot of drama and trauma in your life. I do my best to practice this, though I often fail.
What I am grateful for: At a time when temperatures are below 0 in so many unlikely places like Texas and Florida, I am grateful I have indoor heating and that I can pay for it.
Global Warming has become the new subject again because of our cold weather. Whether you believe global warming is caused by humans or historic climatic changes, the fact is that it is a problem. Here are some examples of what I have found recently.
The poor at the most at risk. 26 million people have had to move from where they live because of climate change.
4.5 children will die if rich countries do not provide for poor countries to face climate change. (Intermon Oxfam)
375 million people will be affected by 2015 due to climate change and the consequent humanitarian crisis it will cause.
In the Amazon we will lose about 30 species of trees by the end of the century.
Warmer waters will also affect the coral reefs around the world.
Glaciers have lost 2/3 of their ice mass since 1850. If temperature rises another 3 degrees, 80 of the ice cover that glaciers had between 1970 and 1990 will be lost.
What can you do? Our new Living Smart series will introduce a series of Green tips that will demonstrate ideas on food sustainability, new green dorms, cars and pet products. We'll also talk about community gardening, green architecture and rain water gardens. Stay tuned.
We are airing on Sundays at 3pm and Friday nights at 10pm. Latina Voices also continues the third Sunday of the month at 2:30pm. Season six of Living Smart will launch in April.
What I am grateful for: At a time when temperatures are below 0 in so many unlikely places like Texas and Florida, I am grateful I have indoor heating and that I can pay for it.
Global Warming has become the new subject again because of our cold weather. Whether you believe global warming is caused by humans or historic climatic changes, the fact is that it is a problem. Here are some examples of what I have found recently.
The poor at the most at risk. 26 million people have had to move from where they live because of climate change.
4.5 children will die if rich countries do not provide for poor countries to face climate change. (Intermon Oxfam)
375 million people will be affected by 2015 due to climate change and the consequent humanitarian crisis it will cause.
In the Amazon we will lose about 30 species of trees by the end of the century.
Warmer waters will also affect the coral reefs around the world.
Glaciers have lost 2/3 of their ice mass since 1850. If temperature rises another 3 degrees, 80 of the ice cover that glaciers had between 1970 and 1990 will be lost.
What can you do? Our new Living Smart series will introduce a series of Green tips that will demonstrate ideas on food sustainability, new green dorms, cars and pet products. We'll also talk about community gardening, green architecture and rain water gardens. Stay tuned.
We are airing on Sundays at 3pm and Friday nights at 10pm. Latina Voices also continues the third Sunday of the month at 2:30pm. Season six of Living Smart will launch in April.
Thursday
Good Bye to Cancer, Hello New Life!
What I have Learned this week:
I want to prevent cancer and other diseases, so this is what I have learned. I will stop eating as much animal protein as possible and will completely cut out dairy. (I will get my calcium from veggies) I will try to eat a more plant based diet because that is what I believe will prevent thecancer from coming back, not radiotherapy, not chemotherapy not any drugs. I will also haveto excercise daily to keep the cancer at bay. Finally I will survive and thrive with a new diet, excercise regimen and MEDITATION and PRAYER. (More about that later)
What I am grateful for:
I am open minded enough to research and study certain truths I may not want to hear, such as what is really in our food supply and why it may be killing us. (I will be doing a Living Smart show on this topic in the upcoming season)
I am back at the Optimum Health Institute in Bastrop Texas. To learn more about what they do you can check their website http://www.optimumhealth.org/
My goal was to detox my body from all the medication and radiation. The fact is there are many institutes such as this one that help you do this, a detox of the mind, body and spirit from the lifestyle and stress we live with on a daily basis. I realize not everyone is ready to hear this but in my view, in America, sometimes more profits are made when people are sick than when they are healthy, therefore few voices are rising up to tell people what we are eating is KILLING US. Ask yourself the following question. Do your kids suffer from obesity, allergies, asthma, diabetes and other ailments that 50 years ago we hardly saw in our children? If the answer is yes, please become CONSCIOUS AND AWARE! Soon I will be taping a show with Robyn O'Brien who wrote the Unhealthy Truth: How our food supply is making us sick and what we can do about it. We as americans need to become more responsible for what we are putting in our mouths. Do we need to trust the government to protect us or the food companies? It is not going to happen. We have to take the bull by the horns. The bull is our diet. We have got to become aware of what we are truly eating, stand up for prevention, not new drugs or surgeries to deal with our obesity epidemic. It can be done. Start by cutting out sugars, flours and processed foods. It does not mean you can NEVER eat a great piece of chocolate cake, or doughnuts, but you just can't do it every day and as for soft drinks. Nuk' em!
I want to prevent cancer and other diseases, so this is what I have learned. I will stop eating as much animal protein as possible and will completely cut out dairy. (I will get my calcium from veggies) I will try to eat a more plant based diet because that is what I believe will prevent thecancer from coming back, not radiotherapy, not chemotherapy not any drugs. I will also haveto excercise daily to keep the cancer at bay. Finally I will survive and thrive with a new diet, excercise regimen and MEDITATION and PRAYER. (More about that later)
What I am grateful for:
I am open minded enough to research and study certain truths I may not want to hear, such as what is really in our food supply and why it may be killing us. (I will be doing a Living Smart show on this topic in the upcoming season)
I am back at the Optimum Health Institute in Bastrop Texas. To learn more about what they do you can check their website http://www.optimumhealth.org/
My goal was to detox my body from all the medication and radiation. The fact is there are many institutes such as this one that help you do this, a detox of the mind, body and spirit from the lifestyle and stress we live with on a daily basis. I realize not everyone is ready to hear this but in my view, in America, sometimes more profits are made when people are sick than when they are healthy, therefore few voices are rising up to tell people what we are eating is KILLING US. Ask yourself the following question. Do your kids suffer from obesity, allergies, asthma, diabetes and other ailments that 50 years ago we hardly saw in our children? If the answer is yes, please become CONSCIOUS AND AWARE! Soon I will be taping a show with Robyn O'Brien who wrote the Unhealthy Truth: How our food supply is making us sick and what we can do about it. We as americans need to become more responsible for what we are putting in our mouths. Do we need to trust the government to protect us or the food companies? It is not going to happen. We have to take the bull by the horns. The bull is our diet. We have got to become aware of what we are truly eating, stand up for prevention, not new drugs or surgeries to deal with our obesity epidemic. It can be done. Start by cutting out sugars, flours and processed foods. It does not mean you can NEVER eat a great piece of chocolate cake, or doughnuts, but you just can't do it every day and as for soft drinks. Nuk' em!
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