OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE T " ARTS @ OCC FALL 2012 CALENDAR OF EVENTS 2 Pre-Election Party r October 25, 2012 . 26th Annual Wassai 13).eceMber 6, 2012 yVomencenter Art Show, Sepmber 27 - October 26 10 am - 4 pm Smith Theatre Fall Semester Production: The Great American Trailer Park Musical, R Performances - November 8 - 10, and 15-17 i 8 pm College Events: OCC's Got Talent, December 7 • Doors open at 6:30 pm. Event starts at 7 pm. Community Events at the Smith Theatre: Woodward Corridor Musicians, October 17 • I pm - 3 pm Denriis Cyporyn Band, October 24 • 1 pm - 3 pm Detrdit Dance Collective; November.30 • 7:30 pm ALL EVENTS ARE HELD AT THE OCC ORCHARD RIDGE CAMPUS, FARMINGTON HILLS For more information - www.oaklandcc,eclu/connect )1 .1.17,(;FL 0Aftlit Nil) COMMUNE' Y j.nit f is our rnofi:_, _ Please join us as we celebrate the 22nd Anniversary of Yad Ezra the kosher food pantry feeding 'es hi our community. vulnerable famill Rissa and Sheldon Winkelman 2012 Honorees Sandy and Alan S. Schwartz and Esther and Neal F. Zalenk© Dinner Chairpersons Richard Simtob, Yad Ezra President Monday, October 29, 2012 at Congregation Thaarey Zedek . Strolling Supper 6:0(4n, followed by a brief program 7J Covert $180 per adult $90 per young adult (1940 years) $60 per youth (8-18 years) Yad Era is a 501 (p)(3) orokaon. Itinr questims Please call (7A8) 548-5663 or email infotqadezra.org Yad Ezra Fetecring Honory Jewith Fornfies 1784940 38 October ii E 2012 is not, however, difficult compared alph Waldo Emerson said, to other life traumas. "Life is a journey, not a Financial distress is a stressful destination." Sometimes problem, but once it is analyzed, a it is simple, but other times not. I set of defined options are identi- often allude to my children (young fied that present solutions. adults whom I adore) Once the analysis is com- and lament that they pleted, the anxiety of not are still going through knowing what to do or how stages and changing every to cope with the problem other month. We watch is dissolved. The path our children grow and forward then becomes the experience life, and the cure and your new journey. more in tune we are with In this context, solving what they are doing and financial issues is a con- experiencing, the greater crete process. Of course, our awareness as to the you're going to be better off emotional swings they if you are careful and select experience. the right person to do that But what about us? We analysis and assist in executing the are the children of our parents — so plan, but you don't need a miracle or are we still going through stages breakthrough in modern science to and changing every other month? resolve the problem. I believe the answer is yes. It's just Other journeys of adversity are up to us to observe our behavior more difficult, because they lack because our parents may be gone the "clear path forward" or "solu- or beyond the age where they are tion." Illness where there is no cure observing the day-to-day traumas or where there are options but they that life holds for us. involve risk assessment without The journey includes joyous occa- definitive success present much sions, but the path also includes greater challenges. In my estimation, adversity. Financial adversity is one such an event presents adversity that arena I am acutely aware of these none of us wish to face, but then, we days, but, as I'm sure you can relate, cannot program the coordinates of there are many more, from trivial our journey into our GPS of life. matters, to health, family trauma, Think of the current instances in relationships — the list goes on, as your life where family and friends does the journey. are facing such adversity. I marvel at The adversity itself is not a stage their optimism, clarity of heart and that we go through; it is an event soul, and their selfless concern for that arises from time to time in the everyone around them in contrast to journey. The manner in which we any form of self-pity. These people address adversity is, in my view, a are the true soldiers of the journey function that matures (or should and demonstrate to us how to face mature) over time. true adversity. ❑ In my law practice, I witness vary- ing stages of coping skills among clients. In financial areas, the skillset Ken Gross is an attorney with Thav Gross and host of the Financial Crisis Talk Center for coping ranges from avoidance, radio program at 8:30 a.m., Saturdays, on panic and emotionally distraught WDFN 1130 AM, "The Fan." His new book, behavior on one end, to disciplined, Dump Your Debt, is available on Amazon. rational decision making on the COM. other. Addressing financial adversity