Mullings and Musings...

• "A dream come true" (Lovely photos... sweet, but sad story. Don't you just love it when people respond the way you'd hope they respond?)

"...6 year old cancer patient gets a royal hug from Kate, Duchess of Cambridge."

• "48-year-old woman breaks record for longest swim" (I love to swim, but NO! I don't want to try this myself anytime soon... ever, in fact. WOW!!)

"On Saturday morning Penny Palfrey went for a dip. A little over 40 hours later she emerged after setting the world record for the longest solo unassisted swim.

Her 68-mile trek across the Cayman Islands in nothing but a standard swimsuit and goggles bypassed packs of sharks, powerful currents, and unpredictable weather."

• "The real secret to a longer life: Learn how to rebound from stress" (I went to look at this article, just because I thought the picture below "advertising" it was hilarious... but then found what it had to say very interesting...)

"In a groundbreaking study, 2009 Nobel Prize-winning cell biologist Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Ph.D., and health psychologist Elissa S. Epel, Ph.D., both at the University of California, San Francisco, discovered that that chronic stress 'literally gnaws at our DNA—its tips, or telomeres, to be precise—speeding up the rate at which our cells age.' "

• "Niger Tips: A few lessons learned the hard way" (I've been wanting to link to this for awhile... finally remembered to do it before I posted... Thanks, J, for sharing your story.) 

" 'If I could sell my experiences for what they cost me I would be a millionaire.' ~Abigail Van Buren

Here is the account of a small traffic accident that I had on the infamous JFK bridge in Niamey..."  

• "Love Language" (Thinking of wonderful friends, all over this globe and right next door, who speak my love language... even when they don't always know they do...)

"There are church ladies you know... Some I love for their humor. Others for their poetic voice. Others for their brilliant insights. Always I love them for their faith — for groping their way to the mercy seat and leaving sweet crumbs along the path to help me get there, too."