What Can Positivity Do? - and "Something Extra"

What Can Positivity Do? - and "Something Extra" - Who Packed Your Parachute?

Published: Wed, 01/08/20

Hi ,

It's Wednesday,

January 8, 2020

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Quote:
"And while acknowledging the darkest and heaviest times we experience is important, we still need to spin the moment, paint it a different color, and transform it because positivity saves lives."
--- DEBBIE LYNN

This Week's"Something Extra"

Who Packed Your Parachute?

Sometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is really important. We may fail to say hello, please, thank you, congratulate someone on something wonderful that has happened to them, give a compliment, or just do something nice for no reason.

Charles Plumb, a US Naval Academy graduate, was a jet pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured and spent 6 years in a communist prison. He survived the ordeal and now lectures on lessons learned from that experience.

One day, when Plumb and his wife were sitting in a restaurant, a man at another table came up and said, "You're Plumb! You flew jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were shot down!"

"How in the world did you know that?" asked Plumb.

Continue reading here:

Who Packed Your Parachute?

Sending love and blessings for a beautiful day,
Marlene

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