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After Woodstock by Howard Reiss

Austin Tang — Mon, 19 May 2025 16:00:54 +0000

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Jack and Bryan have been best friends since the age of two. In high school Jack talked about getting his doctorate in math and computer technology and creating the first android robot. Bryan dreamed about becoming a big-time lawyer with a penthouse in the city and a house in the Hamptons. They graduated high school in 1969, a momentous summer, which they capped off by attending the Woodstock Concert. The three days of peace, love and music sent Jack off in a radically different direction. While Jack and Bryan go on to live very different lives, they continue their relationship over the next fifty years through letters. https://www.howardreiss.com/after-woodstock

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The Knot: Experts Say These Are the Only 8 Marriage Tips Couples Need

Austin Tang — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 21:25:13 +0000

Consider these the golden rules.

by Wendy Rose Gould

It goes without saying: Deciding to get married is a huge deal, and there’s no doubt you’d only enter into that commitment with deep love and dedication. Just like any relationship, though—and perhaps more so—you’ll experience ups and downs. So what’s the secret to a happy marriage? And FYI, it’s not about never arguing or taking wow-worthy vacations every year.

Happiness in marriage is a journey that brings many of its own challenges, in addition to the joyous and profound love shared between two people. We asked relationship experts to share their “golden rules” for how to maintain a happy marriage that’ll withstand the test of time.

Meet the Experts:

Dr. Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT is the best-selling author of In Each Other’s Care
Naomi Angoff Chedd, LMHC is a licensed mental health counselor with Counslr
Leanna Stockard, LMFT is a licensed marriage and family therapist at LifeStance Health
Jaki Silver, LMSW is a licensed master social worker based in New York City.

In this article:

What Is a “Happy Marriage?”

A happy marriage is one where both parties feel fulfilled, appreciated and united as a team taking on life and the world together. There’s an unwavering sense of commitment to each other (even through life’s inevitable trials and difficult conversations), as well as a mutual respect, admiration and desire for the other to feel happy and seen.

112 Happy Anniversary Quotes That Celebrate Love

Being happily married requires both people to exercise deep trust and remain patient with one another. It requires not only listening, but truly hearing what the other person says and feels. It also means taking time to acknowledge our own faults, and to continue striving toward being a better version of ourselves so we can keep showing up for our partner in meaningful ways.

The Best Tips for a Happy Marriage, Hands-Down

We spoke with several relationship experts, including a psychiatrist and licensed counselors and therapists, who have worked with many couples over their careers. Through their work, they’ve been able to pinpoint some of the key steps to a happy marriage.

1. Make Your Relationship Your #1 Priority

Above anything else—work, friendships, hobbies—your relationship must always claim the number one spot in your priority list. “This simple but all-inclusive idea protects the two of you from the outside world and becomes a social contract between the two of you to serve each other above and beyond all else,” says Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT.

“That does not mean that your work, children or others are given short shrift. This principle of putting the relationship first protects the two of you from each other and ensures a union that can last a lifetime.”

2. Get Reallyyy Great at Communicating

You’ve likely heard this advice a million times—but have you processed what it truly means? It doesn’t simply imply talking; but involves hearing, processing and conveying our thoughts in a way that’s healthy, helpful and conducive. Yes, this can be difficult, particularly in challenging conversations or scenarios where one person is feeling hurt or unseen.

“Learn how to express your dissatisfaction, frustration or downright anger in a way that can lead to a solution,” urges Naomi Angoff Chedd, LMHC. “The point is not to make your spouse feel bad. The point is to fix what’s broken, to better understand and respond to each other’s needs and to enhance and enrich both your lives.”

3. Get to Know Yourself

Record scratch—wait, what? Yup, getting to know who you are can make a huge difference in the quality of your relationships, including the one with your life partner.

“Getting to know yourself is an important element of helping your partner get to know you,” explains Jaki Silver, LMSW. “I often hear patients expressing things like, ‘They just don’t get me,’ or ‘They don’t understand what I need.’ This can lead to distress and uncertainty of the durability of the relationship.”

When Silver hears this, she asks her patients to get specific: What’s a need of theirs that they want their partner to understand? And if they’re unable to communicate this clearly, it’s an indication they may not understand themselves or be able to share their feelings with their partner.

“It’s only through understanding ourselves, our values, our goals and our needs that we can begin to find ways to express them effectively,” Silver says. “This allows our partner to work with us in creating their role in meeting our needs and the development of solutions together.”

4. Keep Dating

Just because the ink is dried on your marriage certificate doesn’t mean the courting phase has to be over. Remaining curious about your partner and continuing to date them can make for a very happy marriage, according to experts.

“Ultimately, the decision to continue to date your partner shows your investment in them and helps keep the relationship alive,” explains Leanna Stockard, LMFT. “It makes them feel valued as a human being, and shows that you want to continue to grow and evolve with them through all of life’s changes [and] to continue to have fun adventures.”

5. Use a Filter

No, not that kind of filter! The kind of filter you use before saying whatever’s on your mind. As the saying goes, you can’t put squeezed toothpaste back in a tube, and you can’t take back words that have been spoken. Be intentional about the way you communicate versus being reactive or impulsive.

“It is inevitable that anger and resentment may surface at times—and many problems are worth arguing about,” says Chedd. “But you don’t have to say everything that is on your mind, especially when your emotions are at a fever pitch.”

“Wait 10 minutes or wait an hour. Even sleep on it,” Chedd suggests. “And if it still bothers you and seems worth a conversation, bring it up in a calm, kind-spirited [manner] rather than in an accusing way.”

6. Always Have Your Partner’s Back

“What’s mine is yours” is a common saying we associate with finances and belongings, but it also extends to our partner’s well-being and heart: You two are a partnership, so protect each other and always stand up for the other.

“You are first and foremost a survival team where you both protect each other from the slings and arrows of life. You are both staunch defenders of each other at all times,” says Dr. Tatkin. “Having each other’s backs—even when in disagreement with the other—is one of the strongest attachment values we can express.”

7. Try to Surprise Each Other

It’s so easy to fall into the monotony of daily routines—but where’s the fun in doing that for 50 years? Predictability is important to help us feel secure and comfortable, but also try to spice things up every once in a while to keep that spark ablaze.

“Bring home a big bouquet of flowers or a gigantic balloon for no reason. Take your spouse on a ‘mystery’ ride to a little restaurant or to look at a breathtaking view. Declare a mental health day and take the day off together,” Chedd suggests.

“Do whatever helps you connect and remember why you are right here, right now, with the right person.”

8. Learn Your Partner’s Love Language

The phrase “treat others the way you want to be treated,” is a golden standard, but what if that looked a bit different? Treating others the way they want to be treated is a big key to a happy marriage. You can do that by understanding what your partner’s love language is.

“You may realize that the way you are showing your partner that you love and care about them is not resonating with your partner the way you are intending,” Stockard says.

“Learning how to speak each other’s love languages helps you realize signs for compassion and caring that we may have otherwise missed, or that we did not realize had a much deeper meaning than what we believed at the time.”

Be it through emotional intimacy, quality time or check-ins throughout the day, learn what specific acts of love and intimacy your partner needs to feel secure and—you guessed it—happy in your marriage.

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Looking for Good News – Nat’l. Random Acts of Kindness Day is Feb 17

Austin Tang — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 17:44:04 +0000

Good afternoon,

Who couldn’t use some good news? Neighbors helping neighbors. Folks lending strangers a helping hand. We can all use just a little bit more positivity in our lives. Ahead of Random Acts of Kindness Day, tomorrow Thursday, February 17, 2022, we wanted to share some inspiring stories of folks turning to GoFundMe across the country to give back in their communities and show them what the power of help can do for others. Random Acts of Kindness Day celebrates and encourages random acts of kindness and is part of Random Acts of Kindness week which is celebrated February 13-19, 2022.

Below are a few examples of people actively working to make a difference in their communities through small, random acts of kindness:

In Corinth, Texas, Wayne Tomlinson used the app ‘NextDoor’ to help 52 people in 21 months in his community suffering economic stress during the beginning of the pandemic. He assisted with things including helping with past due rent and mortgage payments, utilities, finding jobs, providing needed food and clothing, and more.

In Whittier, California more than $57,000 has been raised for a man named Peter, who is deaf and blind and uses American Sign Language to communicate. Peter works at the local Trader Joe’s and is on the verge of homelessness every month and doesn’t have health insurance. Folks in the community want to help pay his rent, buy him food and fix the truck he uses to get to work, and any medical bills he has incurred during his recent 28-day stay in the ICU for non-covid related issues.

In Hamilton, Georgia, Aaron Best is working to surprise his neighbor with a new roof on his dilapidated Farm House. The older resident is terrified of heights and doesn’t have the means to fix it. Best updates his progress on his Youtube channel.

In Los Angeles, volunteers are looking to bring karaoke back to Skid Row after having to shut down due to the pandemic.

In Louisburg, North Carolina, Susan Roberts is lending a helping hand to a local community member battling oral cancer who is unable to fix a broken well-pump used to funnel water to his home.

In Nampa, Idaho, residents are coming together to help Kerry Judd, a 71-year-old DoorDash driver who works to make ends meet after his wife died some years ago.

Kwane Stewart in Los Angeles, known as the ‘Street Vet’, offers his services to pets and owners experiencing homelessness and/or financial hardship. His random acts of kindness, which started in the fall of 2019, have inspired more than $200,000 in donations. For those looking to provide their own little random act of kindness for someone in need, all funds go to his non-profit, Project Street Vet, which provides free veterinary care, treatment, and pet support. Read more about Kwane’s efforts to protect the human-animal bond in January’s Smithsonian Magazine. To donate to Kwane’s cause visit: Project Street Vet on GoFundMe.

Please let me know if you have any questions or would like to get in touch with any of the organizers.

With gratitude,

#kindness #love #kind #care #relationship #national #random #acts #day

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Thought For The Day…

Austin Tang — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 21:47:30 +0000

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Heavy rains remind us of challenges in life. Never ask for a lighter rain, just pray to God for a better umbrella. – That is the attitude!
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Life is not about finding the right person, but creating the right relationship. It’s not how we care in the beginning, but how much we care till the very end.
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Some people always throw stones in your path. It depends on what you make with them; a Wall or a Bridge? – Remember you are the architect of your life.
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Search for a good heart, but don’t search for a beautiful face, coz beautiful things are not always good, but good things are always beautiful.
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It’s not important to hold all the good cards in life, but it’s important how well you play with the cards you hold.
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Often when we lose all hope & think this is the end, remember God and pray, it’s just a bend, not the end.’ –
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Have faith and have a successful life. One of the basic differences between God and humans is, God gives, gives and forgives. But the human gets, gets, gets and forgets. Be thankful in life…
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If u think it is your alarm clock that woke you up this morning, try putting it beside a dead body and you will realise that it is the Grace of God that woke you up.
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If you are reading this, remember that it is JUST BY THE GRACE OF God that we are alive…

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Discover The Path of Self-Enlightenment by Dame Munni Irone

Austin Tang — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 03:20:26 +0000

Listen to “Discover The Path of Self-Enlightenment by Dame Munni Irone” on Spreaker.

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Dr. Jordan is the author of the new book Learn To Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life

Austin Tang — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 03:22:46 +0000

Listen to “Thomas Jordan, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist specializing in relationships for over 30 years. He will share with your listeners the keys t” on Spreaker.

Thomas Jordan, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist specializing in relationships for over 30 years.

He will share with your listeners the keys to understanding exactly what it takes to hold on to love – and to nurture it so that both members of a couple are not just tolerating, but embracing, one another. Dr. Jordan is the author of the new book Learn To Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life.

In his three decades of work as a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, he has worked with the NYC Department of Correction, Verizon, the New York Police Department, Con Edison, the United Nations, and Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. I’m also happy to send a copy of Learn To Love for your review consideration.

Dr. Jordan won the GOLD AWARD for the Nonfiction Authors Association Book Award: https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/book-award-winner-learn-to-love-guide-to-healing-your-disappointing-love-life/

For more information, please visit: https://lovelifelearningcenter.com/

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BEING THE RICARDOS starring Nicole Kidman & Javier Bardem | Official Teaser Trailer & Poster Out Now

Austin Tang — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 22:07:27 +0000

AMAZON ORIGINAL MOVIE

Amazon Studios will release BEING THE RICARDOS in theaters on December 10th, 2021

Globally on Prime Video December 21st, 2021

Watch the Teaser Trailer:

Written and Directed by Aaron Sorkin

Starring Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, Jake Lacy, J.K. Simmons, Nina Arianda, Tony Hale, and Alia Shawkat

Lucille Ball (Nicole Kidman) and Desi Arnaz (Javier Bardem) are threatened by shocking personal accusations, a political smear and cultural taboos in Academy Award^®-winning writer and director Aaron Sorkin’s behind-the-scenes drama Being the Ricardos. A revealing glimpse of the couple’s complex romantic and professional relationship, the film takes audiences into the writers’ room, onto the soundstage and behind closed doors with Ball and Arnaz during one critical production week of their groundbreaking sitcom “I Love Lucy.”

125 Minutes

#BeingTheRicardos

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Thought for the Day…

Austin Tang — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 12:40:46 +0000

With Trust, even
Silence is
Understood..
Without Trust
every word is
Misunderstood.
Trust is the soul
of all relationship.

*Good Morning*

#Trust #Silence #Understood #word #Misunderstood #soul #relationship

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Tips on Practicing Gratitude by Amelia Evans

Austin Tang — Wed, 26 May 2021 16:43:38 +0000

Tips on Practicing Gratitude

Introduction

From improving the relationships that we have with others to boosting our mental health, practicing gratitude can prove to be a game-changer. When you live your life with gratitude, you’re in a position to realize the small wins such as a stranger assisting to hold the door for you, or the bus arriving on time. These small moments string together to develop a feeling of well-being which gradually reinforces your ability to notice that thankfulness is the key to happiness. Enhancing the capacity for thankfulness is not difficult. Instead, it only requires practice. In this article, you will find out the benefits of gratitude and several tips on practicing gratitude.

Benefits of Gratitude

There are a myriad of positive benefits associated with practicing gratefulness. For instance, gratitude makes people happier, counteracts suicidal thoughts and depression, and generally improves people’s relationships. Gratitude helps to keep us tethered to reality by reminding us of the interdependence and interconnection of all things. By doing so, it helps us to remain grounded and centred. Gratitude can also lift people’s spirits and give them comfort when they are going through tough times.

Practicing thankfulness helps to mitigate scarcity, fear, and the feeling of not being in control. Even in the darkest moments, gratitude reminds us to be thankful which subsequently provides us with an attitude of being more generous and positive when the going gets tough.

Tips on Practicing Gratitude

Have a daily journal of gratitude

It is crucial to start your day with thankfulness. Have a daily journal by your bedside when you wake up and write down the little things that you are thankful for. When you do this constantly for a month, you will realize positive differences in your general mood and how your days progress. remind yourself of the benefits, grace, and gifts that you enjoy. By recalling the moments of gratitude attributed to normal events, important people in your life, and your attributes, you can realize the potential to embrace a sustainable thankfulness theme in your life.

Express your thankfulness to others

Expressing your thankfulness to others can help to strengthen your relationship with others. Always be thankful when your family members, friends, or partner do things that you appreciate. When you meditate on the relationship with your friends, siblings, parents, children, or work partners, always ask yourself three questions:

What did I receive from someone?
What did I give to someone?
What difficulty and troubles did I cause to someone?

See the beauty in people and pay compliments

Putting a smile on a person’s face is always a nice gesture. When you give a respectful and kind compliment to someone, I can go a long way in making their day. In the process, it can make you feel good as well. Always appreciate the beauty in people and make them understand that you see them for who they are.

Wrapping It Up

It is normal to give into the fear of feelings of scarcity and fear-mongering. It is normal to limit the exposure you have to content that fills you up with negative energy. Instead, to achieve the key to happiness, choose content that fills you with joy, focuses on the things that are going right, and always be thankful for the things that you have. Become creative and ask yourself – how would I want to appear when things get tough? Practicing thankfulness is a choice that you can make every day.

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Are you ready to open yourself up to success and abundance? ?Barbara Biziou

Austin Tang — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 15:15:26 +0000

Listen to “Are you ready to open yourself up to success and abundance? ?Barbara Biziou” on Spreaker.

As the world slowly returns to normal, many of us find that we need to update our mindset and our relationship with money. Are you ready to move out of scarcity consciousness and open up to success and abundance?

Don’t just go back to normal, go beyond your wildest dreams!

Join me for the Power Time Prosperity & Success Activation Ritual on Wednesday, April 28th at 7:30 pm EST

Right now we are moving into the energy of Taurus, which means physical resources and a new relationship with our finances. If you have participated in this ritual in the past, you know that the more consistent you are with enlarging and grounding your financial/abundance container, the more abundance you will attract.

This Prosperity Ritual combines ritual, spiritual practice with Feng Shui astrology. It sets the tone for the entire Summer Season. Each one is slightly different depending on the astrological influences.

Join me in our Sacred Zoom Room and let’s move into Abundance Consciousness and attract the resources we desire!

If finances are a challenge at this time, you can make a donation. We trust you to be fair.

“The day after I attended Barbara’s Wealth Activation seminar my business, which had been floundering, started to pick up. I directly credit Barbara for that turnaround. It changed my attitude and helped me ascribe to the Law of Attraction. Thank you! – L.R.”

I hope you will join us and invite your friends and loved ones who could benefit from increased abundance in their life.

Barbara@BarbaraBiziou.com
www.BarbaraBiziou.com

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