Moodscope

Capture how you are feeling at a given moment, keep tracks, understand your picks and your downs. Manage how to balance your moods.

 

A fantastic little app that can save lives.

When I was a younger person, living with my family nearby, January First of the New Year was devoted to visiting my relatives, and exchanging good wishes while eating delicacies.

I cherish those memories because they bring long gone loved ones back to my heart. I am not sure the overload of sugar and hugs were unecessary to have imprinted those good memories into my neurons.

Now, I wonder if "visiting" my friends and relatives via Skype, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Gmail, and even LinkedIn will leave the same imprint, although, why not try and wish you all, my dear loved friends a Happy and Healthy New Year!

May it only bring good news to all of us.
With love,

Link to the video greetings

Found somewhere, maybe on Facebook, no attribution though. Claim paternity if it's yours!

It is Friday afternoon and we just finished the daylight savings time, meaning night will fall early, and earlier until December's solstice.

 

This usually means that by midday, it is time to unwind work, clear the week and get ready to cease the madness. In order to do so, there is a little madness involved of course, the madness of scrambling to get ready for shabbat.

 

But once shabbat is there, it is like magic, nothing else matters, and unfinished business can actually wait. This is probably what I love most about Shabbat!

 

To all of you who helped us with Joseph’s iPod several years ago, I owe you.

I owe you stories on how happy this device has kept him. I owe you the peace and quiet that it has helped him keep, and the motivation that it has given him to earn “good behaviors” stickers that granted him hours and hours of exciting music, sounds and games.

I owe you and still, here I am, with this new campaign! Can you believe that my boy is going to turn sixteen? I can’t, it went by - not that fast - but that intense, that I may have forgotten that this was coming.

Well, Joseph’s autism will not allow him to claim driving classes or any insane big stuff that sixteen year olds feel they earned now… but he still uses his iPod - and now his iPad - to the brim.

Help us keep this healthy occupation with new tracks, new apps, new earphones (he keeps breaking them at an insane rate).

I am launching a new campaign for his birthday, coming up soon!

Thank you for your participation,

With love from all of us.

Rewarding my big boy is a key to learning behaviors that we expect naturally, but fail to be learnt as such, like paying attention to others' space and needs. So we keep using charts and incentives, like going to the carousel in the mall.

 

I was happy to learn then that rides are free and unlimited for individuals with special needs. Thank you!

 

 

Today is the first of 180 days until summer camp (not counting school breaks of course, and weekends).

 

This year it was rainy and warm, but not too much, and it arrived after a stressful end of the summer with the passage of an unusual hurricane that disorganized life to a pretty big extent.

It also arrives as the tenth anniversary of 9/11 is being prepared, lots to ponder, lots to reflect on, lots to give back, as it is a highly symbolic and emotional remembrance.