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Morning all. Well, so much for the weather — cloudy and gloomy ☁️ Ahhhh, a little late getting started 🕘 I tripped over the themes on my blog 🧖‍♀️ and decided to look for something to fix the awful background colors 🖼️ The restore button 🔄 just popped up, and I eagerly clicked it. BINGO! The colors in my blog are back to normal. Cindy's Open House Blog

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I wish my physical body 🩻 would take a vacation 🏖️ and take all its aches and pains 💥⚡️* with it!

Now that my stomach feels better than it has in years, my body is sprouting aches and pains here and there that I didn't know I had — not severe, just annoying, a case of the wandering gas attacks ∘○˚.•o

Stomach problems, or any other dreadful thought — Great Spirit forbid — let that thought go! Thoughts can kill.

My letting-go-of-things prayer:

As a gesture of letting something go, it may sound dumb, but I twirl my index finger in the air twice to the right, stop, curl it, then flick it out, and I pray, "GONE!" Depending on the depth of the emotional distress, the usual negative thought just "poof!" gone. It works for me. If I stop thinking it, it remains in the ethers. But I bag and savor all the good stuff; I savor those times and treasure them above what all the money in the world can buy me.

The good stuff is the byproduct of the lessons learned from the bad ones. In this lifetime, anyway.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

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🔹AI Overview

The Art of Letting Go

The key is focusing on what you can do rather than what you feel.

Key Points

• We all have anger, regret, and resentments that continue to haunt us.

• We mistakenly believe that letting go lies in changing these thoughts and emotions.

• But it is our behaviors that keep these in place. Focus instead on changing your behaviors in the present...

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Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender

Letting go involves being aware of a feeling, letting it come up, staying with it, and letting it run its course without wanting to make it different or do ...

People also ask:

What does Letting Go mean?

🔹AI Overview

Letting go means choosing to stop fighting reality, releasing the need to control outcomes, and freeing yourself from emotional pain tied to the past.

What Letting Go Is:

• Acceptance: Acknowledging what happened instead of wishing it were different.

• Surrender: Stopping the inner struggle against thoughts, feelings, or situations you cannot change.

• Relief: Turning down your body's stress response so you can live in the present moment.

What Letting Go Is Not:

• Not forgetting: You still remember the event, but the memory no longer hurts or controls your daily choices.

• Not giving up: You stop forcing outcomes, which frees up energy to focus on actions you can actually change.

• Not ignoring pain: True release often happens only after you feel, process, and heal from difficult emotions...

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BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

The Fed was bullied into hiking rates. Now it hopes it didn’t royally screw up

The bond market gave the Federal Reserve an ultimatum: Raise rates, or we will. So the Fed did the only thing it could do. Backed into a corner by rising Treasury yields and inflation, the central bank boosted its target interest rate Wednesday for the first time since 2023.

Americans have suffered from a persistent inflation problem for five years, and an interest rate hike is a powerful weapon that could help squash it. But it’s a blunt tool that comes with a nasty side effect: It can unintentionally turn the job market into collateral damage...

But the Fed is playing with fire. Raising interest rates risks slowing down the American economy without anything to show for it....

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• Warsh vs. the market:
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PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2026, 12:01 AM ET

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Will AI really kill everyone? How, exactly?

Artificial intelligence could kill the entire human species, according to people in the artificial intelligence industry. Specifically, they say, it could exterminate humanity within the decade.

Politicians, major news organizations, and Sheryl Crow reacted with alarm last week after an Anthropic employee named Jacob Coxon announced he was quitting the AI company because its work was too dangerous. Evan Hubinger, another Anthropic worker, chimed in to put the chance of AI-powered human extinction within 10 years at greater than 10%...

• Wiped out by synthetic plague?:
• Slaughtered by robots?:
• Or nuked?:
• Death without details:

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Updated Sep 17, 2026, 10:35 AM ET - 29 min ago

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Republicans made Hasan Piker a villain. Democrats still can’t decide what to do about him.

Seven weeks before a hugely consequential election, the Twitch streamer Republicans keep putting in ads explains why he won’t tone it down.

Hasan Piker is an unlikely star for a negative ad campaign. He has never run for office and says he has no interest in doing so. He holds no leadership position in any political party. He has no political action committee. Most of the country has no idea who he is: In April, 60% of likely voters told Echelon Insights they had never heard of him.

That was before he started appearing in living rooms across the nation, in ads paid for by Republicans who want him to be one of the most famous men in Democratic politics — and before prominent Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, condemned him in an effort to distance themselves from a figure they fear is too polarizing to help them retake the majority in November...

“My bet on this isn’t that I’m doing this just so Democrats can win elections,” Piker said. “I’m doing this because it’s true and I want people to understand and maybe even entertain a different perspective, even if they don’t fully internalize it and fully understand it.”

• More articles: Hasan Piker is a distraction for Democrats — and a potential liability:

"Piker’s model is, in part, Donald Trump, who proved AN INFLAMMATORY STYLE can win a national election."

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Sept. 17, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT

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CANADIAN NEWS RECAP:

Carney says Europe, Canada aren't 'fair-weather allies' while rebuking Trump's tactics

Addressing European Parliament, prime minister says 'deeper partnership' is about sovereignty

Prime Minister Mark Carney pushed back against U.S. President Donald Trump's recent comments that Canada seeking a deeper relationship with the European Union was "laughable."

Carney told reporters during a news conference on Thursday that a partnership with the EU would make Canada "a better partner" to the U.S., but he insisted that the relationship with the U.S. must respect Canadian independence. "We are looking for partnerships that are complementary, that reinforce our sovereignty," he said when asked about Trump's comments...

WATCH | Trump says closer Canada-EU co-operation is 'laughable':

WATCH | EU chief talks about Canada in her state of the European Union address:

• 'People-to-people ties':

WATCH | Ambassador focused on 'results' in deepened EU alliance:

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Posted: Sep 17, 2026 5:52 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

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If I could get one wish granted by the Great Spirit, it would be to have the privilege to punch🥊 this arrogant fat orange 🟠 (‿ˠ‿) 🕳️ in his fat 👃nose.

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PM Mark Carney addresses European Parliament – September 17, 2026

Prime Minister Mark Carney addresses the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. The address comes one day after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed opening the door for Canada to become the European Union’s first associate member.

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