Day: May 16, 2026

My Storied Life 5-16-26

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May 16th, 2026

1969 Top 10 Highest-Grossing & Award Winning Films

  • Midnight Cowboy 🏆
    • 23rd BAFTA Awards Best Film
    • 23rd BAFTA Awards Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman
    • 23rd BAFTA Awards Best Director: John Schlesinger
    • 23rd BAFTA Awards Best Original or Adapted Screenplay: Waldo Salt
    • 42nd Academy Awards Best Film
    • 42nd Academy Awards Best Director: John Schlesinger
    • 42nd Academy Awards Best Adapted Screenplay: Wado Salt

“This was the first X-rated film to win an academy award. Way ahead of its time. Very disturbing film with the skid row type lifestyle. People living desperately when no other options exist. I thought this film was great and might not see it again due to its depressing and dark nature. However, I highly recommend it if you have never seen it. To be honest, I had never seen it until now and glad I did. Voight and Hoffman’s characters were amazing. Superb acting!”

Daily Gratitude 5-16-26

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May 16th, 2026

  • I trust that the universe is supporting me as best it can. It is guiding me along my destined path.
  • Today will bring new challenges. I am ready for them and grateful for the lessons they will provide.
  • I am excited for whatever the universe has in store for me.
  • I am thankful for all that fear has taught me.
  • I am living the life my soul intended.

My Musical Life 5-16-26

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May 16th, 2026

#31 Green River (Creedence Clearwater Revival) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
Well, take me back down where cool water flow, y’all
Let me remember things I love, Lord
Stoppin’ at the log where catfish bite
Walkin’ along the river road at night
Barefoot girls dancin’ in the moonlight🪄
I can hear the bullfrog callin’ me, aw
Wonder if my rope’s still hangin’ to the tree, aw
Love to kick my feet way down the shallow water
Shoofly, dragonfly, get back to mother
Pick up a flat rock, skip it across Green River
Well!🪄
Up at Cody’s camp I spent my days, Lord
With flat car riders and cross-tie walkers
Old Cody Junior took me over
Said, “You’re gonna find the world is smoulderin’
And if you get lost come on home to Green River.”🪄
Well!
Come on home

My Abundant Life 5-16-26

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May 16th, 2026

Clearing Out What Isn’t Useful or Beautiful

“Having nothing in your homes that you do not know to be useful and believe to be beautiful.”

William Morris (Textile Designer & Poet; March 24th, 1834 to October 9th, 1896)

Irish poet’s call for the aesthetic alchemy of beauty and function in the home “the long-waited-for deliverance of the decorative arts.”

W.B. Yeats (Irish Poet & Former Senator of the Irish Free State; June 13th, 1865 to January 28th, 1939)

“…our authentic decorative deliverance arrives when we begin to appreciate and put to use the Morris rule—ridding ourselves of anything we do not believe to be beautiful or useful—as we restore order to our homes and simplify our lives.”

“…start to sort: if it’s not beautiful, useful, or sentimental, it goes. One pile is for items to give away to thrift shop charities…”

“The other pile is for perfectly good objects of previous infatuations that no longer make your heart beat faster. This pile can be recycled as future gifts.”

“There is an ancient metaphysical law that says if we desire more abundance in our lives we must create a vacuum to allow ourselves to receive the good we seek. How can more good come into our lives if there is no room for it? The way we create the vacuum is by giving away what we no longer need or desire but what can serve others.”

“Deciding to simplify our lives and bring order to our homes by sending on the objects we no longer love to new, happier incarnations with people who will genuinely appreciate them is the way to open ourselves up to receiving an abundance that will perfectly suit us.”

“The timing of this devotion is amazing. Neil and I are sorting through our storage items which have been in storage for 3 years. We will be assessing what we keep and not in a powerful way.”

–Ban Breathnach, Sarah. “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy”. Grand Central Publishing. (1976). Kindle Page 162 to 163 of 501.

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