2026 Reach Out Breakfast Impact Video: Shawna's Story Hockomock Area YMCA

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTGN3fPyNpk

“Half the World are Women. The other half are their children” - Efu Nyaki

There are too many Headless Women

https://untitled-magazine.com/headless-women-are-everywhere-in-hollywood-but-why/

Craving Fats and Oils

 

Craving fat often means your body needs essential nutrients, specifically fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E, K), or is seeking comfort due to stress. These cravings are driven by a gut-brain connection that signals a desire for calorie-dense energy. Satisfy these cravings with healthy fats like avocado, nuts, seeds, or olive oil. 

Reasons You Crave Fat:

• Nutrient Deficiency: Lack of essential fats or fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E, K).
• Stress/Anxiety: High-fat foods can feel comforting and reduce stress, similar to high-carb foods.
• Gut-Brain Signaling: Research suggests that when fat enters the intestines, it triggers a gut-to-brain signal (via the vagus nerve) that drives further consumption.
• Biological Memory: The brain associates fatty foods with pleasure and reward, making them highly desirable.
• Habit/Dieting: Restrictive dieting can trigger intense cravings for fat as the body seeks to regain energy. 

How to Manage Fat Cravings:

• Eat Healthy Fats: Instead of processed, fried foods, choose nutrient-dense, healthy fats like avocados, nuts, seeds, olive oil, and oily fish (salmon).
• Manage Stress: Since cravings can be emotional, addressing stress through, for example, sleep (aim for 7-9 hours) can reduce the need for comfort food.
• Identify Triggers: Pay attention to when cravings occur (e.g., when stressed, tired, or after a low-fat meal).
• Incorporate Healthy Fats: Including healthy fats in meals helps satisfy hunger and reduces the likelihood of intense cravings.

Hannah Arendt

 

—Charlie Chaplin final speech from The Great Dictator (1940)

 "I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible—Jew, Gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful—but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say: Do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. Soldiers, don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate. Only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers, don't fight for slavery. Fight for liberty! In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written, “The Kingdom of God is within man”—not one man nor a group of men, but in all [people]. In you. You, the people, have the power: the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then—in the name of democracy—let us use that power. Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give all a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to [everyone's] happiness. In the name of democracy, let us all unite!"

 —Charlie Chaplin final speech from The Great Dictator (1940)

“I think sometimes we need to take a step back and just remember we have no greater right to be here than any other animal.”

“Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse.” — Carl Sagan

In Japanese, “tsundoku” means collecting books and letting them pile up - not for neglect, but for the joy of knowing they're there, full of untold stories. — Kinokuniya Book Store, Tokyo

"Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past — let us accept our own responsibility for the future." —John F. Kennedy

Don Winslow:MORE American soldiers have been killed and injured than the Pentagon or The White House are admitting to. I am being told this by people inside and I wish to hell it was being investigated and fully reported.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. — Robert Frost

“In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.” — Jonas Mekas

 Electrolight D. Nakamoto

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Jonas Mekas survived Nazi occupation and Soviet deportation. He watched Lithuania fall to two empires. He made films instead of weapons. He lived to 96. The politicians who ruled his world are footnotes. He is not. The quote aged into a prophecy.

How Dictators Come to Power in a Democracy Bad economic policies and foreign policies can cause crises that have dangerous political consequences. February 5, 2013 • Commentary By Jim Powell

 https://www.cato.org/commentary/how-dictators-come-power-democracy

To love someone is to put yourself in their story.

 Rebecca Solnit

America’s current descent into lawless, violent, unaccountable government is at least a little bit a story of psychosexual unmooring. Republicans were once the party of prudes. Now their politics are, in every way, an exercise in perversion.

 Alan Elrod

“Literature is the best toy humanity has invented to ward off the fear of death, and every book is a lamp that illuminates the shadows of our solitude with the light of other worlds.” Gabriel García Márquez

"Books only have two smells. The smell of a new book, which is good, and the smell of an old book, which is even better." Ray Bradbury

Tom Nichols: Operational Excellence, Strategic Incompetence The president and his advisers are in the grip of “victory disease.” By Tom Nichols

 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/iran-strategy-victory-disease/686275/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFweA-lpG91FW0XPeaUsz-ryEc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

 

Mr PitBull

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On May 8, 1965, more than a year after Kennedy’s death, Dwight D. Eisenhower did something that revealed just how deeply the loss still weighed on him. Despite his own failing health and doctors’ warnings—he was 74 and recovering from his third heart attack—Eisenhower traveled to the Kennedy Library groundbreaking ceremony in Boston. Standing beside Jacqueline Kennedy, he told the assembled crowd something that made even hardened reporters weep: "President Kennedy possessed the greatest campaign weapon any man could have—he had Jacqueline Kennedy by his side, but more than that, he possessed a quality I grew to admire deeply in our many conversations—the courage to admit when he didn’t know something and the wisdom to seek counsel." What made the moment even more powerful was Eisenhower’s revelation that he had kept every letter Kennedy had ever written him, bound carefully in a private collection he called “Letters from a Young Lion.” That day, he donated them to the future Kennedy Library, saying he wanted history to know their friendship had been real—that politics hadn’t divided them where it mattered most. Jackie Kennedy squeezed Eisenhower’s hand and whispered something those nearby heard: “He called you his North Star, General. He never stopped seeking your guidance.” Eisenhower’s voice broke as he replied, “And I never stopped believing in him.” Here were two people from different worlds—the widowed First Lady and the retired Republican general—united in grief and mutual respect. They showed us that the bonds forged in service to country transcend everything else. This is the America worth fighting for—the one where we see each other’s humanity first.