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Courage, encouragement, End of Life, Gratitude, Health, Hope, inspiration, Joy, Life Courage, Myasthenia Gravis, Positivity, Rheumatoid Arthritis

Tree Frogs & Returning Geese–New Life & Return to Familiar Emerge Despite COVID Bleakness

April 4, 2020 by Lisa Gigliotti No Comments

A Cacophony of Life

While aspects of the world experience COVID-19 illness and death,
the croaks of a thousand newly-hatched tree frogs eager for the life that awaits them and
the honks of a gaggle of geese glad for the return to the comfort of their summer environs,
remind me that also around the globe new life emerges and
there will be a grateful return to the comfort of familiar life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LRqqvhe7Gk

 

 

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Let us touch the lonely and suffering at this time

March 30, 2020 by Lisa Gigliotti No Comments

My all-time fav Mother Teresa quote is:

“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.”

Day after day Mother Teresa personally encountered an unyielding number of poor, sick and unwanted. Yet, she relentlessly extended bodily and figurative touch through her deep well of compassionate love, returning to God when needing to replenish her cache of goodness. At this time of global illness and isolation, let us heed her call to see and touch the lonely, suffering and unwanted all around us, by whatever means we are able.

Mother Teresa sharing love and bringing hope

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Andrà tutto bene – All will be well!

March 22, 2020 by Lisa Gigliotti No Comments

Let us take strength from the quarantined Napolitani who sing “Don’t give up!” from their balconies with true Italian spirit and courage – coraggio! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDRiINXik00

Forza e Viva Italia!

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Capital Area Opioid & Pain Conference “Opioids: Engaging Our Community in the New Reality”

February 4, 2020 by Lisa Gigliotti No Comments

Inaugural Opioid and Pain Conference focused on engaging the community with innovative strategies to manage pain and collaborative initiatives to combat the opioid crisis. I am grateful to facilitate two panels important to me: 1) State of-the-art approaches to managing pain without narcotics, and 2) Recovery-oriented criminal justice efforts which can foster not just an absence of criminal behavior but help to restore a human being to a fully functional life. Tomorrow at Michigan State University.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1st-annual-capital-area-pain-opioid-conference-tickets-59774003654

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May lasting health, positivity, peace, and joy pervade your New Year and New Decade!

January 1, 2020 by Lisa Gigliotti No Comments

Preparing lentils as do my cousins in Hungary to beckon a Szilveszter (New Year) of good fortune.

(Lentils symbolizing many coins in your pocket.)

New Year Lentils

Hungarian New Year Lentils with smoked paprika

May lasting health, positivity, peace, and joy pervade your New Year and New Decade!

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Schuler Books on Small/Local Business Saturday!

December 1, 2019 by Lisa Gigliotti No Comments

Shout-out to Schuler Books in Okemos for small/local business Saturday!

Schuler Books has been a supporter of Coraggio books since their releases.

Schuler Books promotes Coraggio books’ spiral-binding that helps people with disabilities more easily read a book–by shelving on an end cap or cover forward–while other bookstores prefer books with a title on the binding that can be compactly shelved. Missed Small Business Saturday? Consider shopping for one of many unique items at Schuler Books & Music any time this month.

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Courage to believe in your Miracle of Hope! 

October 13, 2019 by Lisa Gigliotti No Comments

Have courage to discover and believe in your Miracle of Hope! 

There is always Hope…

You are Never Alone!

 

        Hope Restores Women’s            Conference                  Lansing Center

Coraggio!

 

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Hope Restores!

September 29, 2019 by Lisa Gigliotti No Comments

Hope Restores! Come-two weeks from today-charge your spirit and mind!

Hear Coraggio: Courage to Believe in the Miracle of Hope

and other dynamic women talk of hope and love that will uplift the most weary or worried of souls!

https://www.lansingdiocesecwc.org/

    Hope Restores Women’s Conference 2019

 

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FREE Naloxone/Narcan day — no questions asked

September 14, 2019 by Lisa Gigliotti No Comments

Promoting FREE Naloxone/Narcan day. Luke, the Rite Aid pharmacist, was great.  Gave me my free box of 2 with no questions asked, no prescription, and showed me how to use.  

As a Michigan Prescription Drug Abuse Commission member, we learned that 130 people a DAY die from opioid abuse in the U.S. This nasal spray can reverse an overdose while happening. I added link to an article with how-to-use video and a list of pharmacies providing free kit today, Sat. 9/14.

Naloxone / Narcan kit

https://www.freep.com/story/news/health/2019/09/12/free-narcan-naloxone-michigan-pharmacies/2154597001/

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National Day of Encouragement!

September 12, 2019 by Lisa Gigliotti No Comments

Today is the National Day of Encouragement!
There is still time to offer a word of hope
or a gesture that will have a

positive impact on a person’s spirit.
Who knows?
Your acts of encouragement may have the effect of uplifting you as well!

 

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Lisa Gigliotti is an attorney who has lived for more than twenty-five years with severe rheumatoid arthritis and serious myasthenia gravis. Through those years’ thirteen major surgeries and use of a wheelchair Lisa has maintained a fulfilling and positive life.

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