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Items of Interest
One Columbus Franchise
On Monday, January 9, 2006, at 6:00 PM on WTVM’s News Leader 9, Cheryl
Renee interviews long time board member Terry Sybrant about One Columbus
and everyone’s participation in the Second Annual Recognition Dinner.
Tickets are still available at all SunTrust branches, WTVM Channel 9 and
at the Columbus Times on Buena Vista Road.
This one you should not miss.
Second Annual Recognition Dinner
Listed Sponsors for the 2006 Recognition Dinner are: CB&T Bank, Columbus
Regional HealthCare System, Synovus, W. C. Bradley, Co., SunTrust Bank,
Hughston Orthopedic Hospital, David Rothschild Co. Inc., Regions Bank,
Page, Scrantom, Sprouse, Tucker & Ford, P.C., Burger King, Hatcher, Stubbs,
Land, Hollis, & Rothschild, LLP., AFLAC and Alexander Electric Co.
We want to thank these businesses for stepping forward to support One
Columbus in its efforts to make Columbus a better place for ALL of its
citizens.
One Columbus Programming for 2006.
2006 is going to be an exciting year for One Columbus with lots of
activities! Great plans have been made for the 1) E Pluribus Unum lecture
series, 2) a great Golf Tournament, 3) a wonderful series of Dialogue
Groups, 4) the One Columbus Community Prayer Breakfast, 5) a Jazz Concert
and 6) support of the Dare To Dream Summit for High School students -
to name just a few for the first six months.
As these events and activities show up in the print and electronic media,
and on our website www.onecolumbus.org your support would be greatly appreciated.
New Year’s Resolution
As I was making my New Year’s Resolutions for 2006, this piece from Michael
Josephson popped up on my screen and really helped me craft plans for
2006 just a little differently than I had originally planned.
I hope you will find it useful.
Throw Away All Your Grudges 443.2
As we approach the New Year, it's a good time to clean out the clutter
in our lives. Sure, that means going through and disposing of useless
papers and unused "stuff," but it also means throwing away old grudges.
It has been said that pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional. A
decision to hold on to a grievance is a decision to suffer. It extends
the pain. And in a peculiar way it gives the wrongdoer a way to hurt us
again and again.
It isn't easy to root out and release deep-seated resentments arising
from hurtful words or deeds. Though sometimes we don't remember the source
of the resentment, other times we recall the incident so vividly that
it still evokes a fresh torrent of negative emotion. But no matter how
justified or even self-righteous we feel about our grudges, we will be
healthier and happier if we get rid of them.
Confucius said, "To be wronged is nothing unless we continue to remember
it". A grudge dwells in dark memories, often deliberately revived as if
reliving the hurt will somehow punish the person who caused it. In fact,
we hurt ourselves far more.
Ideally, we should forgive and forget, but even if we're not ready to
forgive, we can "forget," or at least repress the temptation to dwell
on whatever it was that made us so angry. When we let go of our resentments,
we pave the way for forgiveness -- a final act of virtue and mental health.
But we also free ourselves from the past so we can live better in the
future.
Michael Josephson
One Columbus leaders on CCG-TV
On the Government Access channel, the One Columbus story is told at
6:00 PM, 10:00 AM and 10:00 PM by three prominent One Columbus
volunteers. Host Junie Christian interviews board members J. H.
Flakes, Jr., Nemia Chai and Lee Brantley on Columbus Connections.
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