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Oprah's column in the holiday issue of O Magazine:
The economy is in flux, and so are we. For years I've noticed that the universe speaks to us in whispers. If we ignore the whispers, we get pebbles of warning. If we still don't pay attention, we get bricks of problems, and if we're really hardheaded, eventually the entire brick wall comes crashing down. This is a pattern I've seen repeated so often in every area of life that I know for sure when you don't pay attention to the pebbles, it's just a matter of time before the bricks show up.
Our nation's financial crisis is the brick wall that's going to force us to deal with the reality of what truly matters. And to face the spiritual crisis of figuring out who we are and who we choose to be.
Our spending and greed for material things that we think will define us have been forcibly put in check. We have a wake-up-call opportunity to get real and be real with others by finding ways to show love, give love, be love without spending a lot of money. It's a chance for us to look beneath the surface, into the culture of excessive more, more, more-ness that got us into this mess.
It will take more than a bailout to get us on the right track. We need a shift in the way we think about our lives. We may have to search deeply to recognize what matters. Sometimes when I ask people what it would take to make them happy, they don't know what to say. They forge an answer about family and friends, and yet their lives are about everything else.
Everything in life has meaning. The bigger the fall, the greater the lesson.
Barn's burnt down -
Now I can see the moon.
-Masahide (17th century poet)
Oprah
Barack Obama's historic win and acceptance speech brought back memories of this other historic first. So moving. And the year was 2002. Watch here.
Robert F. "Bobby" Kennedy, kid brother of President John F. Kennedy, was killed 40 years ago, while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination. Bobby was a crusader for racial and economic justice, and when he died, many thought the "dream" died too.
Not so, say the women he left behind. Glamour talked to Bobby's daughters and granddaughters - yep, all 14 of 'em - to get full scoop on how they keep their father and grandfather's dreams alive through continued public service.
...you could register to vote in the 2008 election.
Seventeen, MTV and Declare Yourself have teamed up to mobilize people to register to vote. So they're co-sponsoring the "In the Time It Takes" video contest. All you have to do to enter is create a viral video that reminds folks that they can register to vote lickety split.
If you want to see example videos, check out the ones done by Lauren Conrad, Audrina Partridge and Whitney Port of The Hills . Just don't bite off what they did, k?
One grand-prize winner will receive a trip for two to Los Angeles to attend the Young Hollywood party. (Hel-lo.) Two Runners-up will each receive a $500 gift certificate to American Eagle Outfitters and an American Eagle Outfitters Declare Yourself T-shirt signed by the cast of The Hills.
Now, just so ya know, if this year's Young Hollywood party is anything like last year's, the contest winner will hobnob with the likes of Justin Timberlake, Nick Cannon, Hayden Panettiere, Lauren Conrad, Audrina Partridge, Romeo and Kristen Bell. Definately the place to be, so go over here and enter to win.
Alice Crisci shares what it's like to lose hair, breasts, fertility and a boyfriend because of cancer. All at the young age of 31. Read her story here.
Too many young women are faced with cancer fights. That's why Kris Carr made Crazy Sexy Cancer, a film that documents her own battle against cancer. Read about it here and watch the trailer over here.
