National Let it Go Day

By Terry Orr

You can do something about the aspects of your life that bring you down. If you choose not to, then you only have yourself to blame. Don’t be afraid to cut the dead weight out of your life and move on. Happiness is a choice. Make it.

Lyrics to LET IT GO by Tim McGraw

I’ve been caught sideways out here on the crossroads Trying to buy back the pieces I lost of my soul It’s hard when the devil won’t get off your back It’s like carrying around the past in a hundred pound sack

Today I’m gonna keep on walking

I’m gonna hold my head up high

I’m gonna leave it all behind

Today I’m gonna stand out in the rain

Let it wash it all away Yeah wash it all away

I’m gonna let it go Oh yeah

I’m gonna let it go Oh yeah

Skeletons and Ghosts are hiding in the shadows Threatening me with all the things that they know Choices and mistakes, they all know my name But I’m through holding in and holding onto all that pain

Today I’m gonna keep on walking I’m gonna hold my head up high

Got No more tears to cry Today I’m gonna stand out in the rain Let it wash it all away Yeah wash it all away I’m gonna let it go Oh yeah I’m gonna let it go Oh yeah

And I know I know I know I know I’ve been forgiven I know I know I know I’m gonna start living Today I’m gonna keep on walking I’m gonna hold my head up high I’m gonna leave it all behind Today I’m gonna stand out in the rain Let it wash it all away Yeah wash it all away

I’m gonna let it go Oh yeah

I’m gonna let it go Oh yeah

I’m gonna let it go Oh yeah

Oh yeah

You also might enjoy listening to the Eagles song “Get Over It” – nice beat and good story.

Are you ready to let it go?

(Photos from Google)

What a fantastic collection of pictures from long, long ago!!

The only known photograph of an African American Union soldier with his family. c1863-65

Last four couples standing in a Chicago dance marathon. ca. 1930

Jewish refugees, approaching allied soldiers, become aware that

they have just been liberated, April, 1945

A Japanese family returning home (Seattle, Washington) from a relocation

center camp in Hunt, Idaho on May 10, 1945

Russian peasants getting electricity for the first time in 1920

9 kings featured in one photo (Windsor Castle, 20 May 1910)

New York man reads a newspaper; headline reads "Nazi Army Now 75 Miles from Paris." May 18, 1940

Johnny Cash performing for prisoners at Folsom Prison Jan. 13th 1968

Gay pride, 1970.  USA

Cow shoes used by Moonshiners in the Prohibition days to

disguise their footprints, 1922

Louis Armstrong plays for his wife in front of the Sphinx

by the pyramids in Giza, 1961

Tereska, a child in a residence for disturbed children, grew up in a concentration camp. She drew a picture of "home" on the blackboard, Poland, 1948

The Long Walk" British Army EOD Tech approaches a suspect device Date Unknown

Three archers, Japan, ca.1860-1900

The headquarters of Benito Mussolini and the Italian

Fascist party in Italy, 1934

The earliest known photograph of men drinking beer. Edinburgh Ale, 1844

The Kennedy trio in the mid-30s as teenagers; John, Bobby and Teddy

Alerted by the smell of a broken bottle of liquor, Federal Agents

inspect a "lumber truck". Los Angeles, 1926

A Native American looks down at a newly-completed section of the

 transcontinental railroad.  Nevada, about 1868

Three Princeton students pose after the Freshman, Sophomore

snowball fight. 1893. Princeton, NJ

"Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers." After realizing a woman was running Boston marathon organizer Jock Semple went after Kathrine Switzer. Other runners blocked him and she went on to finish the race. 1967.

Martin Luther King Jr removing a burned cross from his front yard

with his son at his side.  Atlanta GA 1960

The first official riders in New York City’s first subway, 1904

Microsoft staff photo from December 7, 1978