Help Make Their Dreams Come True-Part II

Help Make Their Dreams Come True II

The 2019 National Pro Pastpitch (NPF) will soon be over.. Thirty of those college standouts in the WCWS  put on a Jersey for an NPF team and started to play. These girls will get to continue their softball careers because the NPF provides the opportunity. Let’s all promote the NPF for all women who have a dream- equality on the playing field as men who play baseball. Here's how:
1.Keep up with schedules, events, players, news and scores.
2. Wear NPF apparel or from your favorite NPF Team.
3. Follow your favorite Team Website
4.Plan trips to games-purchase tickets on line for games and   special events.
5. Ask someone to sponsor for NPF. Ask the company you work for. Be a Sponsor.
6. Watch all the games on NPFTV . Sign up today.

Here is the most important thing of all !
 Browse the National Pro Fastpitch League for all the information listed and share NPF's  posts and that of its Sponsors . It takes us all to promote.
www.profastpitch.com




NPF Website Info:
Team Rosters Team Websites
All Games Schedules
TV Schedules
Featured Players
Videos
Elite Sponsors
League Suppliers
Pro Shop
Sponsorship Info
Team Owner Info
History.

Role Model At Any Age

Role Model-Does Age Matter

Kathryn McCrary has been my role model ever since I walked into the Mt. Juliet Senior Activity. As I was trying to select an exercise I could best do with handicaps Kathryn came bounding through the front door with a smile and a big” good morning “on her way to an exercise class. Someone said she was 90. I perked right up!

This little picture of role models reminded me a lot of my life the past couple of years. My vintage age has brought me full cycle in recognizing the fast-paced world we live in. My daughter has spent many years learning from older women. Now I have switched roles with her. There are so many new techies to learn to even keep up with personal chores like banking, electronically paying bills, coupons for grocery shopping and I could go on. These are things I can learn from her. So does age really matter? Then I thought age doesn’t matter! It is about sharing with one another. The young can tutor the older ones and the older ones can mentor the younger ones.  

In April we celebrate Volunteer Day. And I honor Kathryn for being a role model for volunteers. She has been a leader in about every event in the Senior Center for years. She has supported all events and a founder of many.

Kathryn McCrary gets up, gets dressed, and shows up. She volunteers her talents with a simple attitude of a willingness to share.  She works in silence and lets her actions make her noise. So it goes in a business or team-sharing and bringing your best skills and ideas to the table. Be willing to accept other ideas if they are better than yours. It means not accepting people for their titles but what they bring to the table. It’s about respect, responsibility, accountability, and integrity. There is mentoring going on every day. The greatest successes we know is helping others learn and grow.

Pick someone you admire, write down the qualities you most admire and want to be like. Work on those characteristics daily. It is a way of learning and growing at any age.

What's Color Got To Do With It ?

What’s Color Got to Do with It!  By Gloria Wilson-From My Brush

I see the beauty of the world and all my surroundings in nature, mind, heart, and soul because I see in color. During tough times- losing my husband, spending four and one-half months in rehab after an accident, and one year of learning to walk again I began to Color My World.

Trying to find something that would fill my empty hours and workable for my handicap I remember home and my mother, my first teacher. She would seat her eight children at the large dining room table, give those blank sheets of newspaper print, crayons, and place an object in the middle of the table and say: “Draw what you see.” She also taught us to make do with what we had.

Gathering up my courage and limited knowledge of art, I walked into a neighborhood Store, School Of Folk Art, and made a firm statement” I want to learn to paint”. Through the eyes of my instructor, I began to see things a little differently. I began to see the petals of flowers, appreciate a sunrise, and the big beautiful blue sky”.

After two bouts of cancer, I began to spend more of my hours practicing my painting skills. It was in a color theory class that I found that color does affect how we feel, how we think, how it affects our emotions, and how others see us. For example, red can represent anger, danger, and stop, but red also represents the red rose, flower of love, and the heart. A hue of color softens the primary colors and provides individuality, emotions, plants, and dress. The only color I have trouble with is grey, but grey does provide depth when used as shading. When I see grey skies, I smile and am reminded of the quote; “A sunny deposition is far better than a cloudy sky”.

Painting helps me record nature in all its colors and helps me share the color and “share my joy of painting with you. My store name, From My Brush, reflects how I see things in color.

Five Questions to ask your Self

1.      Does color affect your emotions?

2.      Does color affect how others see you?

3.      Does color affect your taste?

4.      Does Business and Social Media logos use color effectively?

5.      Is there a “U” in your word Colour?