It took a while to learn the difference between immediate gratification and genuine joy. Immediate gratification involves lots of frantic “getting over” — aiming for pleasure regardless of cost to self, partners and relationships.
You do enough damage in that mode and you’ll eventually wise up and turn away from it. You want something better, genuine joy, which requires patience, thought, caring and more than a little bit of love. Read More...
NEW YORK (AP) — When she sings, Ali Stroker says, she has “no limitations.”
That was clear on Sunday as Stroker performed and made history as the first actor in a wheelchair to capture a Tony Award. She earned the trophy for her portrayal of Ado Annie in Daniel Fish’s dark revisionist revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic “Oklahoma!”
“This award is for every kid who is watching tonight who has a disability, who has a limitation or a challenge, who has been waiting to see themselves represented in this arena,” Stroker, who won for best featured actress in a musical, said on stage. Read More...
Two black men were wrongly accused of not paying to use a gym in New Jersey, and the police were subsequently called on them, days after a similar incident at a Philadelphia Starbucks catapulted the problem of racial profiling in commercial spaces into the national spotlight.
The men were working out at an LA Fitness in Secaucus, N.J., on the evening of April 15, according to a Facebook post by one of the men, Tshyrad Oates, as well as the Secaucus Police Department. Read More...
