US President Joe Biden congratulated Claudia Sheinbaum on her historic presidential win as Mexico’s first woman to lead the country’s government.

“I look forward to working closely with President-elect Sheinbaum in the spirit of partnership and friendship that reflects the enduring bonds between our two countries,”

He said in a statement Monday. 

“I expressed our commitment to advancing the values and interests of both our nations to the benefit of our peoples.” (CNN)

The world is “a changin!”

I happen to be in favor of women in leadership.

Why?

They don’t suffer from the male ego.

I remember Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Isreal.

I remember Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the U.K.

They were something!

Dan Campbell, head coach of the Detroit Lions, does BOTH!

Yes he does, and that’s why everybody wants to play for him or coach with him.

In a recent Detroit Free Press evaluation by the Lions players he was rated A+!

Leadership is not complicated.

People will follow you if you practice those two endearing qualities.

Nobody likes an egomaniac.

No, they are attracted to people who are genuine.

Genuine people practice what they preach.

As I said before, leadership IS NOT COMPLICATED!

Try it! You and your friends and family will like it!

If not today, when?

Unconcerned for their own safety, two fishermen came to the rescue of two drowning brown bear cubs that were left behind by their mother.

The cubs had attempted to cross Lake Vygozero in the Republic of Karelia in the northwestern part of Russia.

“They had swum [across the lake] with their mother, but she overestimated her strength and swam away,” Ruslan Lukanin told the Daily Mail.

“The cubs began to sink. We picked them up and dragged them to the island to which their mother had swum.

“It was dangerous, of course.

But they are living creatures.

We couldn’t just look the other way.”

Lukanin shared a video of part of the rescue, which was posted by the Daily Mail:

This cemetery is located above Omaha Beach in Normandy, France.

These crosses mark the graves of all the young Americans who fought and died for the liberation of France.

I knew one of the young boys who was in the first wave attacking Omaha Beach on D-Day.

He was 18 years old.

His friends were dying all around him.

As he waded through the water, he was crying because he feared he would be dead too.

He was spared and came home, married his sweetheart, raised a family and had his own barber shop.

Please never forget those boys who will remain in France forever!

Having a baby is energetically much more expensive than commonly thought, according to new research.

In fact, over the course of a pregnancy, creating and carrying a little one takes 49,753 dietary calories — the equivalent of 199 Snickers candy bars each containing 250 calories, said Dr. Dustin Marshall, a coauthor of the study published May 16 in the journal Science.

For the meta-analysis, Marshall, a professor of evolutionary biology at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and a team of researchers used data from thousands of existing scientific articles to look at the energy cost of several species.

“We found that the total energy it takes to reproduce is much more substantial than previously considered.”

The bulk of the additional energy a pregnant person needs goes toward developing and carrying the fetus, Ginther added.

“Most of (the) energy that mammals put into reproduction is ‘boiled off’ as metabolic heat, only 10% ends up in the actual baby,” Marshall said in an email. “When both lactation and metabolic loads are accounted for, the baby itself represents less than 1/20th of the total reproductive investment.”

The research could make a big difference in perceptions of pregnancy needs, said Dr. Eve Feinberg, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. She was not involved in the research.

“I think this study is groundbreaking,” she said. “Any working pregnant woman could tell you the sheer level of exhaustion when you are pregnant … and how it consumes your life.”

You are NEVER TOO BUSY to get an annual physical!

I think many of you say, “I feel fine!”

Don’t kid yourself, pain or lack thereof are not accurate indicators of your health.

You have an obligation to yourself and to loved ones to get a physical each year.

An easy way to remember may be to get one on your birthday month.

That way you won’t forget.

Get an annual physical!

Perhaps “birdbrained” isn’t such an insult after all –– crows, the ubiquitous urban bird, can vocally count up to four, the latest research has found.

Not only can the inquisitive creatures count, but they can match the number of calls they make when shown a numeral, according to a new study.

It was led by a team of researchers with the University of Tübingen’s animal physiology lab in Germany.

The way the birds recognize and react to numbers is similar to a process we humans use, both to learn to count as toddlers and quickly recognize how many objects we’re looking at.

The findings, published Thursday in the journal Science, deepen our growing understanding of crow intelligence. (CNN)

Let’s use an example from yesterday.

It’s the Detroit Tigers versus the Toronto Blue Jays.

In the 9th inning the score is tied at 11 and 11.

Matt Vierling of the Tigers steps up to the plate with a man on 2nd and a man on 3rd.

There are two outs and he has 2 strikes on him.

He has already hit a home run in this game, so he’ll probably strike out this time.

No, instead, he hits another home run into the left field stands for a 14 to 11 walk off WIN!

So, don’t lose hope!

Jesus did not discriminate.

Whoever approached him for help was welcomed.

The lowliest people in society suffered from leprosy.

To the astonishment of His followers, he welcomed them.

Do we discriminate?

I think we do every day.

We are certainly wary of strangers.

And there are certain ethnic groups we try to avoid.

Just because a person is different than us, does that make them lesser?

Our world would be much better off if we, “Loved one another!”

If not today, when?

All of us have made mistakes, large and small.

The real question is; do you carry them around with you?

It is a choice, you know.

If we’re being honest, we must admit that it’s hard to set aside the big ones.

You can’t remake the past, but today and tomorrow are in your hands!

What kind of person will you be today?

Don’t cripple yourself with regrets of past mistakes!

Give yourself a break.

You have suffered enough!

If not today, when?