“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.” ~
Month: September 2019
Say it Again, Again and Again
There’s No Hill Too Big for Me to Climb!
Say It Again, Again, and Again
I Like Me!
🍎 Health Hack: #6 of 6 Weight Loss Strategies
Change Your Perspective
Lifestyle changes start with taking an honest look at your eating patterns and daily routine. After assessing your personal challenges to weight loss, try working out a strategy to gradually change habits and attitudes that sabotaged past efforts. Move beyond simply recognizing your challenges — Plan how you’ll deal with them to succeed in losing weight. Setbacks happen. Don’t quit. Start fresh the next day. It won’t happen all at once. Stick to your healthy lifestyle and the results will be worth it.
🔤 Grammar Tip: Are You “Very” Late or “Too” Late?
How Are Very and Too Different?
A: It is very hot.
B: It is too hot.A is a simple statement- It’s HOT!
But B shows some difficulty, like maybe because it is so hot, I feel terrible. Or because it is so hot, no one is happy.
Here are some more…
C: Lisa is very tall.
D: Lisa is too tall.C is a simple statement. Wow! Lisa is a tall girl.
But D has a negative feeling. Perhaps because Lisa is tall, she hits her head on the ceiling. Or maybe she is so tall, she can’t get a date or has no friends.
So remember, using too shows that there is a problem with the situation.
🖋 Writers’ Wisdom: Writing Can Be Hard – Write Anyway
“I know it’s difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a favor, and write.” ~
Today’s Poem ~ Questionnaire
QUESTIONNAIRE
by Wendell Berry
How much poison are you willing
to eat for the success of the free
market and global trade? Please
name your preferred poisons.
For the sake of goodness, how much
evil are you willing to do?
Fill in the following blanks
with the names of your favorite
evils and acts of hatred.
What sacrifices are you prepared
to make for culture and civilization?
Please list the monuments, shrines,
and works of art you would
most willingly destroy.
In the name of patriotism and
the flag, how much of our beloved
land are you willing to desecrate?
List in the following spaces
the mountains, rivers, towns, farms
you could most readily do without.
State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes,
the energy sources, the kinds of security,
for which you would kill a child.
Name, please, the children whom
you would be willing to kill.
