Shannon Linderoth

[Introvert Problems @IntrovertProbss]

As an introvert, I can survive a lot… but “let’s go around the room and introduce ourselves” is where I draw the line

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Bill Cowher with some of the best advice you are going to hear this week.

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[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

"My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces.
But I see everything.

Like the black sedan that circled the lot every morning at 6 a.m. for three weeks. Young man driving, grandmother in the passenger seat. Chemotherapy, I figured. He'd drop her at the entrance, then spend 20 minutes hunting for parking, missing her appointments.

One morning, I stopped him. "What time tomorrow?"
"6:15," he said, confused.
"Space A-7 will be empty. I'll save it."
He blinked. "You... you can do that?"
"I can now," I said.

Next morning, I stood in A-7, holding my ground as cars circled angrily. When his sedan pulled up, I moved. He rolled down his window, speechless. "Why?"
"Because she needs you in there with her," I said. "Not out here stressing."
He cried. Right there in the parking lot.

Word spread quietly. A father with a sick baby asked if I could help. A woman visiting her dying husband. I started arriving at 5 a.m., notebook in hand, tracking who needed what. Saved spots became sacred. People stopped honking. They waited. Because they knew someone else was fighting something bigger than traffic.
But here's what changed everything, A businessman in a Mercedes screamed at me one morning. "I'm not sick! I need that spot for a meeting!"

"Then walk," I said calmly. "That space is for someone whose hands are shaking too hard to grip a steering wheel."

He sped off, furious. But a woman behind him got out of her car and hugged me. "My son has leukemia," she sobbed. "Thank you for seeing us."

The hospital tried to stop me. "Liability issues," they said. But then families started writing letters. Dozens. "Raymond made the worst days bearable." "He gave us one less thing to break over."

Last month, they made it official. "Reserved Parking for Families in Crisis." Ten spots, marked with blue signs. And they asked me to manage it.

But the best part? A man I'd helped two years ago, his mother survived, came back. He's a carpenter. Built a small wooden box, mounted it by the reserved spaces. Inside? Prayer cards, tissues, breath mints, and a note,

"Take what you need. You're not alone. -Raymond & Friends"
People leave things now. Granola bars. Phone chargers. Yesterday, someone left a hand-knitted blanket.
I'm 73. I direct traffic in a hospital parking lot. But I've learned this: Healing doesn't just happen in operating rooms. Sometimes it starts in a parking space. When someone says, "I see your crisis. Let me carry this one small piece."

So pay attention. At the grocery checkout, the coffee line, wherever you are. Someone's drowning in the little things while fighting the big ones.

Hold a door. Save a spot. Carry the weight no one else sees.
It's not glamorous. But it's everything."

Let this story reach more hearts....

Credit: Mary Nelson

[Frank Mitloehner @GHGGuru]

Plant-based milk not 'nutritionally equivalent' to cows' milk, experts say - LBC https://t.co/iTP8aZxBpo

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

7 signs a Midwesterner Loves you

1. “Watch out for deer”
2. “Tell your folks I said hi”
3. “I’m bringing you food”
4. “I’ll start your car for you”
5. “Close the door you’re letting all the heat out!”
6. “There’s beer in the fridge help yourself”
7. “Call me when you made it home safe”

[Max Armstrong @maxarmstrong]

WHERE YOUR FOOD DOLLAR GOES (2022 data) From one end to the other… “Farm Production” gets $.08 and “Retail Trade” and “Food Service” combined account for $.47.

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

Introverts hate small talk. It kills them. Teach them something. Tell them about your life experiences. Lessons you've learned. Your purpose. Your secrets. Discuss psychology, philosophy, your spiritual journey. Give them depth and authenticity. That's the talk they crave.

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

Introverts hate fake people. The pretentious. The cunning. The show-offs. People with sweet tongues, but bitter hearts. They want people who are real. Humble. Authentic. People with pure hearts & good intentions. And above all, bone deep honest.

[Nina Teicholz, PhD @bigfatsurprise]

Meat cannot be causing diabetes, obesity, kidney disease etc.
Here's USDA data from 1977-2018.
Disease rates have skyrocketed during these years, yet meat consumption (the purple line) declined--a lot. Stop vilifying meat--it's not the problem.
Chart from this report: https://t.co/yx7V5A9IAb

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

My all time favorite.. ❤️ https://t.co/cAZV7eRmWC

[Shannon Linderoth @slinderoth]

@AgathaChocolats The #cat did it.

[The Upper Peninsula @UpperPeninsula]

Told ya so.

[Brit Hume @brithume]

Please watch this with the sound up. It will do you good, I promise.

[Tamar Haspel @TamarHaspel]

For 2022 I know you resolved to have better food system conversations. I am here for you

Here are 7 widely held food ideas that are wrong. Let’s put a stake through their little hearts.

(You prolly won’t agree with them all.)

There’s a truth, and some ideas, at the end.

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[Calvin and Hobbes Fan Account @Calvinn_Hobbes]

🪐🔭🌌 #CalvinandHobbes

[Shannon Linderoth @slinderoth]

Yoopers take care of Yoopers

[Michigan State Men's Basketball @MSU_Basketball]

“Don’t forget where you came from.”

Travel back to the UP with Coach Izzo as he assists in the unveiling of the Beacon House with his longtime best friend, @SteveMariucci.

[Alan Watson @DietHeartNews]

"No more meat-eating for you," says Bill Gates. Instead, he explains, we can eat “plant-based meat,” maybe even sourced from his vast GM soybean fields. Largest owner of farm land in the US, Bill says we will "get used to the taste difference..."