Peggy Davenport

Time is the most valuable thing we own.
Motto for 2019: Waste No time.
#Writer #Traveler #Reader #Literary Chaser.

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@SenRandPaul @doj You mean to Trump, then?

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@tasteofhome I’ve canceled a dozen times, including before renewal and still charged. Account 893426411 $43.98 and your customer service has been horrid. Please refund.

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@DanScavino @realDonaldTrump So he DOES have time for weddings…

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@elonmusk Maybe feed the children who exist. Or help the mothers have the time and health to have babies and to thrive. But naw, let’s just give no healthcare, war, and poverty and starvation. Because obviously that’s working.

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@FYtwentyfour7 @ABC But…how? What have they done?

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@elonmusk Did you make this up yourself?

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@jonathan_f32966 @LauraLoomer How was Obama voted out?

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@bannerOfTroot @LauraLoomer She really is this stupid.

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@washingtonpost Explain to me why the manufacturers are A. Still producing this and B. Not in one ounce being held accountable?

[History Nerd @_HistoryNerd]

Barack Obama on how he handles the stress of the presidency:

In his seventh year in office, Obama is asked what he's learned about pacing himself and managing the stress of the job.

He credits his temperament first:

"I'm lucky to by inclination and temperament be fairly steady."

Then his Hawaiian roots.

"Good weather... So I don't get too high, don't get too low."

But beyond temperament, Obama points to three deliberate habits:

Consistent morning exercise, time with family, and most importantly, taking the long view.

On family, he says:

"When you have dinner with your daughters, particularly teenage daughters, they'll keep you in your place and they'll teach you something about perspective."

On the modern news cycle, Obama observes:

"We live in such a 24/7 Twitter-fed constant news cycle and everything's a crisis... Everything is doomsday. Everything is, if it doesn't get solved tomorrow, your presidency is going off the rails."

He recalls how often that narrative has played out:

"There must have been 15, 20 things that over the last 7 years folks have said, 'This is it. It's over.'"

Two examples he points to:

The Gulf oil spill.

"Worst environmental disaster in history. Everybody said, 'He's handling this terribly.' A year later, nobody was talking about it. And in retrospect, it turns out that we handled that as well as any environmental crisis has been handled."

Ebola.

"That was probably one of the most effective international public health responses in history, and that was led by us. If we hadn't acted, it would still be raging and everybody else would be at risk."

These experiences shaped his approach:

"My job is to keep my eye on the ball and to stay focused on what can we get done every single day to advance the vision and the values that brought me here... As long as I stay focused on those north stars, then I tend not to get too rattled."

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@JDude7676 @andy_lion007 Dude…wait…you are talking about Trump and definitely one of the Trump son’s here.

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@BraddrofliT @andy_lion007 You forgot to mention how he never shit his diaper.

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@andy_lion007 Not raise our fucking blood pressure and stress levels daily. But also, healthcare…even after the version of the Republicans stripping it from what it was supposed to be. Forward movement, not backward. Didn’t just make enemies with the entire world. Didn’t bomb fishing boats.

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@ABC How heartbreaking.

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@Tmaze74 @ABC Most people who have brought diseases have done so completely in regular “legal” travels. Such as Ebola. Don’t be stupid. Cutting the departments in the U.S. who control this (it’s been here before) is the problem.

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@elonmusk Wait…Musk is the cause of that gap….

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#writers what are your laptop/desktop/and phone choices for your work and why? What has and hasn’t worked for you. (Such as scrivener doesn’t work its best on iPad?) how have your best managed and with what?

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https://t.co/f8TJlglt26

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@CmGiarrusso @MagdalaMaria Warning would have helped some.

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@CadavaGuy @MLH4OR46 @JoeBiden But…why?