<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">More Creative Ideas for Performing Artists. . .</span></b></p><p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">“Living Your Life with Smiles & Light”</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p>
<p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
With some giggles and laughter, too. </span></i></b></p>
<p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Will our days of conflict and turmoil
ever end? I find it would be surprising if tiredness , frustration, confusion,
depression, anger didn't describe some of the ways we're feeling </span></b><b style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">as these days continue "with no
end in sight."</span></b></p><p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p>
<p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Can our Prayers help us feel better about
ourselves, family, (especially children & elders), co-workers and the world
itself?</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p>
<p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Let's take a step back and spend
some time lightening up and disengaging from the 'chaos' of our country.</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p>
<p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Let's refresh, renew, and revitalize
our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual energy to be able to make it
through each brand new day.</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p>
<p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>So, forget about being an
adult. Just for a few minutes each day. You can do it. Don’t read
the newspaper, except for the Comics. Turn off your cell phone. Let
your phone go to Voicemail. Don’t open your emails. Change the TV news to the
Cartoon channel.</b></span></p>
<p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b> </b></span></p>
<p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">You say you can’t live without
technology? Remember, it hasn’t been that many years ago, you lived and
breathed every day without the technology. </span></b></p>
<p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It hadn’t been invented, yet. </span></b></p>
<p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">OK, have I convinced you to put
aside techno stuff, at least for a little while? Now, you can spend some
time “Living Your Life with Smiles and Light.”</span></b> </p>
<p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></b></p>
<p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></p><div style="text-align:center"><b style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Looking for ways to bring a little
smiles & light into your daily life?</span></b></div><b><div style="text-align:center"><b style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Then, try doing some of these “goofy” things just for fun.</span></b></div></b><p></p>
<p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </p>
<p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="color:red">Question: Are you 30 feeling like 60? Or, 60, feeling like 30?</span></b></p>
<p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="color:red">Then, whichever way you see yourself, add some 'Vim, Vigor & Vitality' to your daily routine. </span></b></p>
<p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="color:red"> 1. Be a walrus. Stick a
straw in each nostril & ear. Walk around flapping your flippers.</span></b></p>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="color:red"> 2. Paint a picture. Color the sky green, grass blue, the ocean orange, with yellow polka
dots. </span></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="color:red"> How about a purple canary?</span></b></div>
<p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="color:red"> 3. Stick a lollipop to your nose. </span></b></p><p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="color:red"> 4. Surprise your partner. Walk up and tickle him / her under the chin, and say, <i>"Kitchy, Kitchy, Koo."</i></span></b></p><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="color:red"><i> </i>5<i>. </i> Whatever you do to be silly, be grateful and thank God that you're able to smile, giggle & laugh to ignore the </span></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="color:red"><i> </i>"ugly" of today's world.</span></b></div><p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></b></p><p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> “5” more ways to put smiles
and light into your day . . .</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 51.75pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">1.<span style="font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Stand on your
head with both hands tied behind your back, and 'burp red jelly </span></b><b style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">beans.'</span></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 51.75pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Impossible you
say? </span></b><b style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Did
you just smile at the absurdity of it?</span></b></div><p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"New serif",serif"></span></p><p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> 2. Dance with your dog or cat in the bathroom, in the tub.</span></b></p><p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="New serif, serif"><span style="font-size:16px"> </span></font><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">3.<span style="font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><b style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Put on
mis-match Snoopy, Ziggy, Miss Piggy, or Garfield socks. A different one on</span></b><b style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> each foot. Make them </span></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 51.75pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"New serif",serif"></span></p><p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></b><b style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> visible and wear them to the grocery store or
pharmacy.</span></b></p><p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"New serif",serif"></span></p><p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> 4. Got milk? Get a straw and blow bubbles in
it. Chocolate is even better</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"New serif",serif"></span></p><p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> 5.</span></b><b><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:New,serif"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Whatever you do to put smiles and
light into your daily life, do it with God. </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"New serif",serif"></span></p><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Note. I use the name God. You may prefer to use such names
as Higher Power, Allah, Yahweh, Creator, Almighty, </span></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Divine
Intelligence, </span></b><b style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> etc.</span></b></div><p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"New serif",serif"></span></p><p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></b></p><div><b><font size="2">Save and add these</font> </b><b style="font-family:"New serif";font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">“5” earlier ways to put smiles and light into your day . . .</span></b></div><div><div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"New serif""><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">1.<span style="font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:New"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Put polka dots on your golf-, basket-, base-, soccer,- foot- ball.</span></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"New serif""><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">2.<span style="font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:New"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Walk like a penguin.</span></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"New serif""><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">3.<span style="font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:New"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Sit naked in the middle of a bunch of travel guides and books (remember them?) on far-away places you dream of going to.</span></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"New serif""><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">4.<span style="font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:New"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Look in the mirror. Grin. Smile. Chuckle. Laugh. Now, go ahead, nobody will see you . . . giggle and blow yourself 3 kisses.</span></b></p><p style="line-height:22px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"New serif""><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:20px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">5.<span style="font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:New"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:20px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Whatever you do to put smiles and light into your daily life, do it with God. </span></b></p><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"New serif""><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Note. I use the name God. You may prefer to use such names as Higher Power, Allah, Yahweh, Creator, </span></b><b style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Almighty, </span></b></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"New serif""><b style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Divine Intelligence, </span></b><b style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">etc.</span></b></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"New serif""><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></b></p></div><div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"></p></div></div><p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Sue Johnson</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="ydp46bc8a95MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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