Third of a Lifetime

Note: Best Tweets for Trauma and PTSD Survivors will return next Friday, January 6, 2012.

It’s the end of the year already! Where’d it go?! Favorite TweetStuff this week is replete with Best of’s, and Top 10′s, and the like. Enjoy! And …

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@HealthyPlace “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

@heykim Best Meteor Shower Pictures Of 2011

@WisdomalaCarte “All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.” ~ Sean O’Casey

@Alyssa_Milano 2011′s most shocking, most beautiful, and most memorable photos (via @LIFE)

@Tamavista “The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be.” ~ Loesje

@ashwinsanghi The Best And Worst Of Everything In 2011: A Mega, Meta Mashup
[SEO: Written as a narrative, just about every word or phrase in this story is a link to the source of various best and worst lists. (via Fast Company)

@pourmecoffee "They should block the Straits of Hormel. That's where spam comes from."

@mjdub The Year in Television in Under Four Minutes [Video]

@Tamavista “Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.” ~ Ludwig Börne

@heykim Lunar And Solar Eclipse Photos Of 2011

@pourmecoffee “Drew Brees has won the Nobel Prize for football-throwing!”

I’m always fundamentally relieved when the calendar puts a stop to all the pre-holiday demands and in your face commercialism. We’re almost there! Meanwhile, here’s a bit of respite from my Twitter stream this week. Enjoy!

@pourmecoffee “Packers lose. Colts win. Someone went back in time and stepped on a bug.”

@EdKiernanNYC Jon Bon Jovi responds to the “exaggerated reports” of his death with this pic — Heaven looks like New Jersey — awesome!

@PsychDigest “For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.” ~ Lily Tomlin

@AmazingPics Mark Fisher: Extreme Skiing
[SEO: Is this sane?! Scroll down the page for more pics.]

@lizstrauss “My life keeps circling round to lessons I’ve met before. It’s my life to figure out what applies now.”

@mjdub Review of the year: the most discussed Twitter pictures of 2011
[SEO: "Staff at Twitter have compiled the most interesting, tweeted about pictures from Twitter in 2011, which are all tied to major world events." While it's hard to call many of these pictures "favorites", they reflect a stark, true reality that puts my own little world into far greater perspective, and inspire gratitude for things I sometimes take for granted.]

@pourmecoffee “Today is the Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year due to your relatives being in town.” #science

@Tamavista “In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” ~ Camus

@ashwinsanghi 10 Coolest Armchairs
[SEO: I especially like the sweater chair, but the sheep chair (from which, arguably, the sweater chair is derived) is somehow a bit creepy. ]

@StevenHandel “It’s no inconvenience for reality that we have trouble defining it.”

@mjdub The 79 Best Viral Videos Of 2011
[SEO: Warning, some of these may not be PC, or may be abjectly stupid, but both of those criteria are part and parcel of a lot of viral videos. This is a '3 second each' compilation of the 79 best viral videos of 2011. If you scroll down, there are links to all 79. One of my favorites is Princess Girls Sing Nicki Minaj. This little girl is awesome!]

@WisdomalaCarte “The storm starts when the drops start dropping. When the drops stop dropping, the storm starts stopping.” ~ Dr. Seuss

Reminder: Best Tweets for Trauma and PTSD Survivors will return in January. Meanwhile, the year is winding down, but in some ways the stress level is rising: shopping, parties, trips, expectations. Need to take a mental break from it all for a few minutes? Below you’ll find my favorite items gleaned from my Twitter account this week. Lots of linky goodness here! Enjoy!

@heykim Lunar Eclipse Photos: Pictures Of Total Eclipse Of The Moon From Around The World

@AncientProverbs “Courage is knowing what not to fear.” ~ Plato

@Gimundo The Top 20 Feel-Good Holiday Movies
[SEO: What's yours?]

@Quotes4Writers “I would argue that coffee has been far more important to literature than alcohol.” ~ Joseph Finder

@SarahMcLachlan Please share a “Gift of Music”: this original song is with the voices and musical talents of the students @SMSchoolofMusic
[SEO: Sarah McLachlan has funded music education for at-risk students in Vancouver BC for about 10 years. The school just opened its permanent building recently. Around 275 children have benefited thus far. This song, "Space on the Couch for Two", is an original Christmas collaboration between Sarah and students, and is completely free to download. But feel free to donate any sum -- even $1 -- toward the school's ongoing funding.]

@heykim World Book Night: Looking For Volunteers To Give Away 1 Million Free Books
[SEO: They are seeking 50,000 volunteers in the U.S. If you want to apply to be a 2012 WBN book giver, be sure to read the requirements.]

@WisdomalaCarte “The more I know the less I understand, all the things I knew I’m learning again.” ~ Don Henley

@Splinteredones For today’s Yogacat instruction, JB shows how yawning can bring about total-body relaxation that is vital for practice.

@Maria_bg “Your power is proportional to your ability to relax.” ~ David Allen

@HealthyPlace INSPIRATIONAL: If you do nothing else today, watch this video. Have tissues nearby.
[SEO: A 22 year old man, who says he's been homeless since age 5, has an incredible voice on "Korea's Got Talent!".]

Just a reminder, Best Tweets for Trauma and PTSD Survivors is taking a holiday till January, but I never stop finding funny, sweet, beautiful, inspiring, or just really odd items in my Twitter stream. Today we have a pronounced cat theme! Enjoy!

@Tao23 “Dear cat: cats aren’t supposed to snore. I’m pretty sure.”

@SarahEOlson2009 Oskar the Blind Kitten, and the Christmas Tree (youtube)
[SEO: Oskar doesn't let his blindness slow him down one bit! I also recommend Oskar the Blind Kitten vs the Hair Dryer -- an Epic Battle!

@WisdomalaCarte "Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You." ~ Dr. Seuss

@pourmecoffee 1% cat
[SEO: Former stray cat Tommaso is now thought to be the world's richest cat, to the tune of €10 million! meowwww]

@Tamavista “Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.”

@heykim COOL! Astronaut playing baseball in space
[SEO: He hits his own pitch! ]

@iamwun “Nothing outside of this moment is real.” ~ Leonard Jacobson

@ashwinsanghi Awesome 33-Foot-Tall Lego Christmas Tree in London’s St. Pancras Station

@Mindful_Living “If you propose to speak, always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind?” ~ Buddha

It’s Friday! Just a reminder: Best Tweets for Trauma and PTSD Survivors is on hiatus till January. But this is my fun post that offers up my favorite tweets from this week, and it’s not going anywhere! Enjoy!

@Tao23 “Challenging convention does not mean simply doing the opposite expected in each case. It means thinking.”

@Splinteredones I have been fishing on this waterway. RT: @NatGeo POD: Moonlit Canoe, Allagash River
[SEO: Peaceful and serene.]

@natasha_tracy “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard

@OddityCentral Kieron Williamson — The 9-Year Old Monet
[SEO: So young, to be able to envision and capture such beauty. Amazing.]

@Quotes4Writers “Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.” ~ Mark Twain

@ashwinsanghi 13 Tilted Architectural Wonders of the World
[SEO: To my knowledge, none of these things were built tilted. They're just leaning a bit more each year. Including Big Ben!]

@WisdomalaCarte “Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

@petapixel One-in-a-million shot — Space shuttle smoke plume shadow points to the full moon

@Quotes4Writers “The story exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.” ~ Jules Renard

@heykim Jetman Flies in Formation with Jet Planes
[SEO: Oh my. This guy has his own portable fixed wing fly suit. Is it wise to fly so close to jets? ]

@mary13L “An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.” ~ James Michener