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When needs become our wants and wants become our needs.

So, I need a house and by some miraculous events, even in this bad economy and my credit score, I get one! My need has been fulfilled. Yippy!

Opps, now I need a lawn mower to cut the grass. So, I go to the hardware store to fill that need, but once there I find lots and lots off different kinds of mowers to chose from with lots and lots of different prices…. But, I want a mower with auto-drive wheels and is self mulching so I can save time and energy not working on the lawn. Great! I got one that does it all, sure, it cost me more, but think of the savings in time I’ve created!

Oops, now I need some shrubbery to make the front of the house look good. Same story; lots of different kinds, prices, etc…. but I want the ones that make my place look good! Course they're the most expensive ones, but I buy them anyways.

Oops, now I have to spend lots of time and energy planting and caring for my new plants, plus cutting the lawn, keeping the mower full of gas and in good working order, etc, etc….Oh, well.

During all this time, energy, and money I’ve been spending on my miracle house, there’s a young boy living in a urban community of poverty right here in the city I live in. His parents are a mess; they can’t keep food on the table or a roof over their families’ head. The neighbors are all in the same shape, poor of finances and of spirit. He is too young to see that he too doesn’t have to live that same future. He’s to young, to even understand that what he needs is the chance to see the world in a different light. He knows there is some kind of empty feeling inside him but he can’t figure out what it is.

I know what he needs, and it isn’t just a new house, mower or gorgeous shrubbery, it’s the chance to feel accepted and cared about. But what can I do about it? I’ve got troubles of my own! Doesn’t he understand how much time it takes me to pray for ways to make money so that I can have all my own wants and needs met?!

Feeling guilty? I am!

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Organized around practical skills, foundational character, and love for God, this camp provides children with a chance for change.

Days are invested in riding, agricultural science, working with animals and gardening. Our staff are selected specifically for their passion for young people. Whether you are sending your own child, or sponsoring a deserving youth, it is hard to imagine a better investment.

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Maybe I can cut back on what I spend on shrubberies so I can sponsor just one of these kids. Shoot, I hate working on the lawn anyways.

Simple Times Farm does not sponsor this blog; I have just used it as and example of one of the many organizations available for us to help fulfill the NEEDS of the children within our community.

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WE ARE FLINT, AND WE ARE DANGEROUS!

Our society does find self-deprecating humor endearing, we enjoy when others reveal their life failures, especially if it’s relatable to our own. It might even be good for us to laugh at ourselves once in a while! Yet, can making fun of your Business have benefits?

We’re thinking that to a limited extent, it can. Sure, you don’t normally want to make fun of your employees, product or services. But then again, you just might want to!

Try this one out, for a restaurant: “We have the slowest service in town!” WITH THE TAG LINE: “That’s because we make each order individually with loving care!” This is a fun way to explain to your customers that you care about the food you serve and teaches them that excellent food takes time. Course, it could also be used to cover-up your poor service management! LOL

How about this one for a Rock Band: “Don’t come out to hear us tonight!” WITH THE TAG LINE: “Cuz we turn the volume up way to LOUD!” This might really discourage some attendees, but will energies others. Most likely, those “energetic” ones, knowing what to expect, are the ones that will make a special effort to come out, enjoy your show, and give you the best reviews!

Now, what would it be like if a City used self-deprecating humor about itself? Let’s say a City like the one I live in, Flint, Michigan. Most all of you have heard of my city of Flint; “Murder capital of the country.” “But, we are hoping to get the world ranking soon!” “The most dangerous city in the country, flax vest await you at our border!”” When we say, built Flint Tough, we’re not talking about the cars!” “All our sports teams are named the “Flames,” cause they really are on FIRE!” “Come to Flint, if you’re looking for a job! Everyone else is too!”

Okay, okay, I could go on and on, and although this kind of humor does point a negative spotlight on my city, could it also be used to promote the City?

Could negative promotion create positive results? This might be a dangerous idea in promoting a city, especial, one that has been working so hard to destroy its own negative self-image.

Let’s think about it. Could promoting our bad boy image to the country be used as cover while we actually improve our city?! Could someday, the very people that laughed at our city actually begin to see that it is becoming a safe, honorable place to live?

Could exploiting our negative image allow us to laugh all the way to the bank? Could marketing our City’s “toughness”, be made profitable? Sad to say, I believe it could. Sad, because our country thrives on the “bad boy” image, the western “shot’em up” mentality, gansta want-ta-be’s, and we could use that craze to make a profit!

I already regret writing this! Some of you will believe I’ve hit on a brilliant idea and actually go about implementing it. This is not what I want my City’s image to be. Not even for a PROFIT! NOT even if it cured our un-employment, not even if it put public services back on our streets.

Sometime the right way of doing things is the toughest way. “WE ARE FLINT, AND WE ARE DANGEROUS!”

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Spotlight on Raspberries Rhythm Cafe & Bar

It's been a vision of owner David Berry for 15 years. A nice place where you can go for relaxing conversation, good food and relaxing, yet sometimes heart-pumping, jazz and blues! (Photo: Stuart Bauer | The Flint Journal)

The DJ is playing some “Cool” jazz from his booth at the back of the room. Smiles, laughs, and sounds of conversations come from the booths and tables that fill the dimly light, yet sparkling clean Raspberry Rhythm Café and Bar.

Suddenly, there’s a man load voice at the bar. You can’t make out what he’s said but you can hear the agitation in his voice as it has disrupted your enjoyment of the club’s atmosphere. Within moments a stern, squared shouldered man walks from behind the kitchen counter and strides up to the man.

I couldn’t hear the conversation between the two but in the short time I’ve known Dave Berry, I can imagine what was said.

Dave, lifting a hand onto the man’s shoulder, looking him straight into his eyes; “You have to leave.”

Man, stunned, stammers: “But Dave, you know me. I didn’t mean nothing!”

Dave, softens his voice. “You have to leave, either I call you a cab or one of your friends needs to drive you home.”

Man, “But, Dave….”

Dave, “No buts, you’re leaving. I don’t want you disrupting my customers and I don’t want you getting yourself in trouble.”

Man, “But Dave, I haven’t had that much to drink!?”

Dave, removes his hand off the man muscular arm, and places both his hand onto his hips. “How’s it going to be?”

Man, “ahh, Dave. Okay, I’ll get my friend to drive me home.”

No trouble here.

FLINT, Michigan -- It's been a vision of owner David Berry for 15 years. A nice place where you can go for relaxing conversation, good food and relaxing, yet sometimes heart-pumping, jazz and blues!

• What: Raspberries Rhythm Cafe & Bar.

• Where: 448 S. Saginaw St. in downtown Flint.

• Hours: 5 p.m.-2 a.m. Thursdays through Sundays.

• Contact: (810) 766-9446.

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WHAT HAPPENED!

In the not so distant past, as a boy, snow meant money! On days like today in Flint, Michigan with the 2--4 inches of light powdery snow, it meant easy money! Back in the day I would get a buddy and we’d grab our snow shovels and each take one side of the street knocking on doors with the hopes of finding someone to pay us 5 bucks to shovel out their driveway. Then together, we’d shovel them out. Some of our best customers were, widows, older retired men and sometime working men that appreciated our entrepreneurship or were just to lazy to do it themselves.

After doing three of four driveways, we would go off to the corner drugstore to purchase a soda-pop, a candy bar and the ever precious, comic book! Dare Devil was my favorite. For a time I even owned it’s first edition. That was until years later when my mother was cleaning out the attic, and inadvertently threw it away. I still love my mom, but it’s been hard to forgive her for her ignorance in discarding a piece of history!

However, comic books and snow shoveling is not the point of this writing, it’s about the lost of entrepreneurship within our young people. It is self-evident to all parents, single parent of not, that having a child that actively finds a way to self-employ themselves creates feelings of accomplishment, self-confidence and teaches them the value of money.

Are you actively encouraging, or even demanding, your child to find ways to fill their free time productively? I am not saying they need a full time job. I think that education should be a fulltime job for young folks. Yet, as a parent, are you looking at ways to help build character in your child. Think about it.

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Tracey Gilmour Whelpley of “The Lunch Studio” restaurant.

The very first place I sat down for lunch in downtown, Flint after having spent 26 years out of state, was at The Lunch Studio. I loved the decor and atmosphere and was very glad to find they served a pork sandwich (They have veggy foods too) very similar to the Cuba Sandwich which I love, called a Midnight. My asking if they could add and subtract a few items in recreating my favorite sandwich, received an excited, positive, “YUP.”

As I sat and enjoyed the sandwich while I took in the all the artwork and do dads within the room, I could not help but overhear a group of young man at the table next to me. Their conversation was full of excitement about how they might put together a social organization that would help low-income folks with getting home mortgages, and education on personal budgeting and finance. (This was the formation of the group then call “PLUTO” which later enfolded into the Genesee Regional Chamber of Commerce as their Young Professionals Committee, GRYP) I introduced myself to the group and we formed a friendship. (I love these guys.)

Here’s my point; from the very first moment I arrived in my old hometown and walked through downtown, Flint, I could feel the place was full of vibrate energy and opportunity. I decided to relocate in downtown. The very first place I interacted (The Lunch Studio) was also full of that same enthusiasm and optimism.

It wasn’t till later that I got to meet the lady behind the counter, Tracey Gilmour Whelpley. That’s when I discovered that her small restaurant that was so full of enthusiasm and optimism was an extension of her own personality.

You may only know Tracey as the quiet woman who lovingly makes each of our sandwiches, but in real life, she’s a superhero in downtown, Flint. Behind the scenes, she’s an intricate piece to countless fundraiser for our community. She gives her time, money and yes, even the food we enjoy at many of the community social function/fundraisers.

It would be enough that downtown, Flint has a great restaurant and meeting place, but having one owned by a person of such grace and compassion for this city is amazing!

I want to personally thank you Tracey, for all you’ve done for me and my wife, and I want to corporately thank you from the whole of the City, for 10 years of community service. Congratulation, keep up the good work!

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIFE (Okay, maybe just some suggestions.)

Sometimes I sit and think about what life is all about. I think hard and as deeply as my shallow mentality will take me. I listen too and read what great minds have said or written on the subject.

I’ve compiled a list of some of their thoughts on life as well as some of my own. After rereading my list I wish I would have put more in about the search for wisdom and of love. Maybe I should add; “The wisdom of the universe can be found in the pursuit of perfect love.”

1) Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others, Responsibility for all your actions.

2) Never lose hope and if someone you know has; pass your hope onto them.

3) Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.

4) No mater how much or how little you have, share it.

5) Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.

6) Pray. There's immeasurable power in it.

7) Spend some time alone.

8) Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

9) Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

10) Read more books and watch less TV.

11) In disagreements with loved ones, deal with the current
situation. Don't bring up the past.

12) Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams don't have much.

13) Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.

14) Be gentle with the earth.

15) Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.

16) Remember that the best relationship is one where your love for
each other is greater than your need for each other.

17) Read between the lines.

18) Memorize your favorite poem or psalm.

19) Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.

20) When you say, "I love you", mean it.

21) When you say, "I'm sorry", mean it.

22) Believe in love at first sight but not if your married.

23) In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.

24) Don't judge people by their relatives.

25) Talk slowly but think quickly.

26) When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?"

27) Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

28) Call your mom.

29) Say "bless you" when you hear someone sneeze.

30) You never fail, if you remember the lesson you learned.

31) Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

32) When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

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Churchill’s, the kind of pub every College Town needs.

Flint, Michigan: I would think that no matter what College you attended there was a Churchill’s type pub in the area. It was the place to let off a little steam, meet with friends, find new friends, share common interest, and maybe even find a date.

Churchill’s if just that kind of place; it’s laid back atmosphere, cheap beer, hot food and good music in the background that’s not so loud that you can’t have a conversation, makes for the perfect college town meeting place.

Flint area college students remember this; someday you’ll be reminiscing about the times you spent in college with the words “Remember the time we were at Churchill’s….” So the next time you’re bored, overwhelmed or feeling a little lonely, stop by Churchill’s Food & Spirits and become part of its history.

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A New Birth of Freedom

Maximilian Hodder - Hollywood, CaliforniaAs heard on The Bob Edwards Show, July 3, 2009To state clearly and honestly one’s beliefs in a few hundred words is a large order in any man’s language, particularly so if one has been a victim of a number of very personal tragedies.Ever since my adolescent mind began to comprehend the complexities of our daily life, I looked upon a human being as a personification of that great unknown with a very specific mission on earth to fulfill. I looked for perfection, for love, and understanding. I believe in human being.

Then one day from the world of a carefree, happy life of a young, up

-and-coming writer/director in prewar Poland, I was thrown into the Nazis’ and, later, communists’ world of hatred, tyranny, murder, and destruction. Human being ceased to be what I believed it was destined for, and I became the raw material for a soap factory—an implement in a five-year plan, or a guinea pig in a biological laboratory. I lost my country and my family, and my belief in human being was crushed mercilessly. I became bitter and cynical.

Then came the third and, to me perhaps, the most significant period of my life so far, here in America. From the moment the immigration officer at LaGuardia Airport shook my hand and wished me good luck, I again began to see the sunnier side of life. I have made true friends and they have proven themselves when I needed them most. Food and clothing for victims of floods, a group of GIs adopting an orphan and sending him to school, neighbors building a new home for a victim of fire, Community Chest, Cancer Fund, Salvation Army, Alcoholics Anonymous, and a thousand other such acts or associations, all voluntary, collective or individual, left an indelible mark on me. It gave me a new lease on life. I again believe in mankind.

I now remember not only the days when people were chased from houses of worship with guns, but also those poor Russians who traded for food their most treasured possessions, but kept the holy icons. I now think not only of those who killed, but also of the kind Russian peasants who met our convoy to Siberia and, in spite of guys who chased them away, tried to share with us corned beef, a piece of bread, perhaps their last one. I also think of those gun-starved wretches who, after years of unendurable exploitation in forced labor camps, still had enough humanness left in them to sing or even joke occasionally.

I now, again, believe there is more good than evil; more of those who create, or wish to create, than those who destroy; more of those who love than those who hate. I firmly believe in an inalienable right of the individual to live the life of his choice, his right to work or rest, smile or cry, succeed or fail, pray or play.

The great Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz said, “The nectar of life is sweet only when shared with others.” I therefore also believe that it is my duty to contribute, in whatever way I can, to the present struggle to bring hope to those still oppressed, so that, as a great American once said, “They also may, under God, have a new birth of freedom.”

Director Maximilian Hodder worked in the movie industries of Eastern Europe. While serving in the Polish Army during World War II, he was captured by the Soviets but managed to escape and went on to join the Royal Air Force. Hodder came to the United States in 1949 to work in Hollywood.

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Soul mates, true love, love at first sight. What do you think about things like this?

I guess I believe the line Tom Cruise used in the movie “Toby Mcguire” was right, His character says, “I love you. You... you complete me.” We all have some missing pieces in our character that we want to have completed. True love is finding the person that you can mesh the areas you’re both interested in and then learning how their strengths fill your areas of weaknesses thereby, completing you both. Love at first sight, yup, I believe in it. Sure, I’ve heard of people that when they first meet, hated each other, only to fall in love later. That’s because the emotion of love and hate are both cut from the same cloth. You see, when you meet someone for the first time that you don’t like, it’s usually because you are seeing in them the very weaknesses you hate to see in yourself. I believe in love at first sight, I believe that physical attraction and spiritual connection can me made in an instant. I also believe that you should take action to investigate its degree of merit. (Unless your married, then it’s most likely just indigestion) It’s like the great romantic Ronal Reagan once said; “trust your feelings, but verify.”

This might just make a good Valentines' Day Gift.

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Today is proclaimed: proclaim your accomplishments day!

Give yourself a little pat on your back for all you have accomplished this week! I want to proclaim we are now the second most read blog on my block. Okay, so maybe we’re tied for second. We’re tied with a woman who blogs about how to knit cat hair into a sweater. But it’s still second place, yeah!

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What is your body saying to others?

I recently watched a video of a group of people talking about their different spiritual views. Very interesting, but as I watched I could not help but notice how each persons’ body language and how each, while listening and waiting their turn to speak, would either have their arms crossed or their facial expressions looked like they wanted to jump into the conversation with vengeance. I watched the video again with the sound off. I may have learned more about each of these people by their body language than by what they said. Your body language can reveal more about you than what you say.

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Learn to see what they're not saying out loud.

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When needs become our wants and wants become our needs.

WE ARE FLINT, AND WE ARE DANGEROUS!

Spotlight on Raspberries Rhythm Cafe & Bar

WHAT HAPPENED!

Tracey Gilmour Whelpley of “The Lunch Studio” restaurant.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIFE (Okay, maybe just some suggestions.)

Churchill’s, the kind of pub every College Town needs.

A New Birth of Freedom

Soul mates, true love, love at first sight. What do you think about things like this?

Today is proclaimed: proclaim your accomplishments day!

What is your body saying to others?

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