Philosophy of Life

Encouragement 2 Minutes

Nebraska Filly brought this open to our sister site Marica is a Honey Badger and it resonated with me so much, I asked if I could bring it here!

“A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full.. The students responded with a unanimous ‘yes.’

The professor then produced two Beers from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed..

‘Now,’ said the professor as the laughter subsided, ‘I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things—-your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions—-and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car. The sand is everything else—-the small stuff.

‘If you put the sand into the jar first,’ he continued, ‘there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you.

Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Spend time with your children. Spend time with your parents. Visit with grandparents. Take your spouse out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and mow the lawn.

Take care of the golf balls first—-the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the Beer represented. The professor smiled and said, ‘I’m glad you asked.’ The Beer just shows you that no matter how full your life may seem, there’s always room for a couple of Beers with a friend.

Thanks Filly for this thought provoking lesson!

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  1. 1969 AMC Javelin SST

    1967 Chevy Camaro RS

    1972 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme

    1970 Mercury Cougar XR-7

    1970 Pontiac GTO

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  5. “Bondi Initiates Grand Jury Proceedings into Russiagate Conspiracy Crimes—Quick update on latest into Russiagate accountability.”

    Julie Kelly, Aug 04, 2025

    “According to a breaking report this afternoon at Fox News, Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a one-page order directing an unnamed government prosecutor to bring Russiagate hoax conspiracy evidence to a federal grand jury.

    WATCH: (Video)

    Bondi’s directive is in response to criminal referrals sent last month by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in the wake of recent bombshell disclosures in the Russigate hoax. (My reporting and relevant documents can be found here.) Following the disclosures, the Department of Justice formed a “strike force” on July 23 to review the records.

    An investigation into a criminal conspiracy targeting President Trump likely would involve events beginning in early 2016 at the Obama White House and stretching into late 2024 when Special Counsel Jack Smith was forced to drop his two criminal cases against Trump following his election win—which would cover the five-year statute of limitations under conspiracy statutes.

    Conspiracy requires the participation of two of more individuals, which won’t be a heavy lift given the long list of Russiagate hoax perpetrators. CIA Director John Ratcliffe also sent perjury referrals for John Brennan and James Comey to the DOJ last month. Over the weekend, Ratcliffe suggested legal accountability is coming in addition to more document dumps. (Apologies for Trey Gowdy sighting here): (Video)

    More to come!”

    https://www.declassified.live/p/bondi-initiates-grand-jury-proceedings

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    1. (Fox video)

      “Bondi is Seeking Indictments for Russiagate!”

      Clandestine, Aug 04, 2025

      🔥MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT🔥

      “AG Bondi reportedly signed order directing US prosecutor to take evidence to a grand jury, relating to the Russiagate referrals sent by DNI Gabbard!

      BONDI IS SEEKING INDICTMENTS FOR RUSSIAGATE!

      This is the next step towards justice. Bondi is presenting the Russiagate evidence to a grand jury, to decide whether or not there is sufficient evidence to bring about criminal charges, which would lead to indictments and trials.

      Of course we will have to wait to see what happens, but Bondi just took the next step towards indictments/arrests.”

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  6. hubby and i just spent the last 30-40 minutes trying to reconcile the payments we made to the oxygen provider with the way that their a/r person applied them in her system…they need to fire her/him.

    our invoice for both the big machine and the portable one is around $44 a month. we didn’t receive invoices for 1 month and half of another month–weird and long story. anyway, insurance did not submit their payment portion for that month and a half (even though they paid the entire 2024 yr and for every month since). so they applied our checks to the insurance balance for those months instead of the invoice numbers we included with our payments and never told us that and now want to add late fees.

    hubby will talk to them on the phone tomorrow–it’s like talking to first graders–sigh.

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      1. we got a statement with “open invoices” on which we paid. since there’s this mess, the Accounting manager sent us copies of where she applied the payments we sent. she applied $11.18 to an invoice from a check…wth? it wasn’t the invoice amount or billed like that –so WHY? who knows…what a mess!!

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  7. Well, the line workers have finally gotten to my neighborhood – I saw them working on the next pole down from me in front of my neighbor’s house so they should be starting on the one in my front yard soon. The meter on that pole is for Oran and Lois across the street; there is another pole by my back driveway where my meter is located – that pole will also be replaced.

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      1. I have no clue – haven’t seen any of them personally yet. But I seriously doubt it and I wouldn’t be interested anyway! LOL

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  8. “RFK Jr. Ends Financial Incentives for Hospitals That Report Staff Vaccination Rates — The move repeals a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services inpatient payment policy created during the Biden administration that tied hospital reimbursement to COVID-19 vaccination reporting. Children’s Health Defense CEO Mary Holland said she hopes HHS looks into financial incentives for pediatricians tied to childhood vaccination rates.”

    by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D., August 4, 2025

    hospital worker and vaccine bottle

    EXCERPT: “The federal government will no longer financially reward hospitals for reporting the vaccination rates of their staff, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on Aug. 1. According to the press release, the incentive system was “coercive and denied informed consent.”

    U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said: “Medical decisions should be made based on one thing: the wellbeing of the person — never on a financial bonus or a government mandate. … Doctors deserve the freedom to use their training, follow the science, and speak the truth — without fear of punishment.”

    The move repeals a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) inpatient payment policy created during the Biden administration that tied hospital reimbursement to COVID-19 vaccination reporting. Under the old policy, hospitals didn’t just collect the data and hold it internally. They published the data on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network — the “nation’s most widely used healthcare-associated infection tracking system,” where it was used “as a tool for public shaming, not public health,” the press release said.

    CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz applauded the repeal.

    “Doctors and other providers should have the same autonomy to choose what’s right for their own individual health care needs as the patients for whom they care,” Oz said. “Today’s announcement helps put that power back in their hands.”

    HHS said the repeal is part of the agency’s broader efforts to “restore medical autonomy in federally funded programs and root out financial and regulatory pressures that incentivize physicians towards pre-scripted medical decisions rather than individualized, evidence-based care.”

    CMS estimated that the annual burden of collecting the data across 3,050 hospitals was between $1,378,600 and $1,608,570.

    Trial Site News noted that HHS’ press release didn’t cite evidence supporting the allegation that requiring hospitals to report vaccination data had been used to shame them, but said such evidence may exist. According to Trial Site News:

    “This policy rollback is more than bureaucratic housekeeping — it’s a reflection of a national reckoning. The American people grew weary of the top-down, one-size-fits-all vaccination regime advanced by HHS agencies like the FDA and CDC during the COVID-19 era.

    “What was framed as public health became, in the eyes of many, a vehicle for coercion, censorship, and loss of personal agency. … The rise of RFK Jr. to lead HHS isn’t a fluke; it’s a clear mandate from the public demanding medical freedom, transparency, and an end to government overreach disguised as science.”

    Jon Fleetwood wrote in a Substack post today that the change suggests HHS may be restructuring how it relates to the medical community. The agency “now favors decentralization and professional freedom over command-and-control enforcement,” he said…..”

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rfk-jr-ends-financial-incentives-hospitals-staff-vaccination-rates/

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  9. “Federal Court Dismisses Case Against LA Schools’ COVID Vaccine Mandates for Employees — The court ruled that vaccine mandates are constitutional if public health authorities say a shot will protect public health — regardless of whether a vaccine prevents transmission or provides immunity. Dissenting judges said the ruling comes “perilously close” to giving the government “carte blanche” to require medical treatments.

    by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D., August 4, 2025

    school bus and covid vaccines

    EXCERPT: “In a loss for medical freedom, a federal court last week upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

    The court ruled that it was reasonable for the school district to think the vaccines protected public health at the time the mandate was imposed, based on comments by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other public health authorities — so the district had a right to mandate them, regardless of whether the vaccine provides immunity to or prevents transmission of a disease.

    Leslie Manookian, president and founder of Health Freedom Defense Fund (HFDF), a plaintiff in the lawsuit, said: “This ruling should terrify every American because the court is essentially saying it doesn’t matter whether or not health authorities lie, it doesn’t matter whether or not vaccines actually have a public health impact. All that matters is that someone is afraid and tells you that this is the right way to address the problem, and then you have to comply.”

    Manookian said she and the other plaintiffs are weighing a possible appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

    The July 31 decision by the 11-member “en banc” U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit overturned an opinion issued in June 2024 by a three-judge panel from the same court. “En banc” refers to a session in which all judges of a federal appellate court hear a case together, and is reserved for unusually complex or significant cases of public interest.

    The smaller panel, which ruled that the case should be heard, sent it back to the lower court that initially dismissed it. However, LAUSD requested that the full panel review the ruling instead. The full panel ruled in the district’s favor. However, the ruling wasn’t unanimous. In the dissenting opinion, the judges wrote:

    “The majority’s opinion comes perilously close to giving the government carte blanche to require a vaccine or even medical treatment against people’s will so long as it asserts — even if incorrectly — that it would promote ‘public health and safety.’”

    Judges ‘chose to ignore decades of constitutional law’

    The lawsuit, filed in 2021 by HFDF and LAUSD employees with California Educators for Medical Freedom, alleged LAUSD’s vaccine mandate — which resulted in more than 1,000 employees losing their jobs — violated their fundamental rights to reject medical treatment.

    According to the complaint, because the COVID-19 vaccine only reduced symptoms and didn’t prevent the spread of the disease, it was technically a medical treatment and not a “vaccine” and therefore could not be mandated. The shot also posed serious health risks, the plaintiffs said…..”

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/federal-court-dismiss-case-against-los-angeles-schools-covid-vaccine-mandate-employees/

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    1. Good Night Filly!

      we were on the phone with our son…oh my…

      he was on vacation last week and stained the fence he put up for the dogs. got stung twice by “bees” and went in to shock. he took 2 zyrtec and had vision problems…and had to drive my DIL to have surgery on her eye…what a mess. thank goodness it worked out and everyone is fine.

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