Two Sides - Plus A MotivateUs Extra - Your Own Star

Published: Wed, 09/13/17

Hi ,

It's Wednesday,  September 13, 2017.​​

Quote:
"I love the light for it shows me the way, yet I endure the darkness for it shows me the stars."
--- Og Mandino

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This week's "Something Extra"

Your Own Star
By Miles Patrick Yohnke
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Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder where you are!
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.

This is a popular English lullaby. The lyrics are from an early 19th-century English poem, "The Star". Many of us were sung to sleep with this song as children. Perhaps you were.

A lullaby or cradle song is a soothing song or piece of music, usually played for or sung to children. It fosters rest, well-being, comfort and envelopes love.

A star is a luminous sphere of plasma held together by its own gravity.

As an adult, what holds us together? As children we look up at the stars - often wanting to be one - A star in some form.

The Oscar Award-winning documentary film "20 Feet from Stardom" features Grammy Award-winning artist Lisa Fischer.

If one attends any of Lisa's live concerts, you realize and it is clearly evident that she is not only a star, but that she is totally, spiritually at one within her own being. A star within her own galaxy. Her own solar system. Her own orbit. Her vocal ability and connection to a song causes a gravitational pull that the listener cannot escape nor would want to.

You may wonder, how did she get there? To be that perfect?

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Have a great day and take care!

Love and blessings,
Marlene