Month: December 2019

🍎 Health Hack ~ Wash Your Hands

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Wash Your Hands Often to Stay Healthy

You can help yourself and your loved ones stay healthy by washing your hands often, especially during these key times when you are likely to get and spread germs:

  • Before, during, and after preparing food
  • Before eating food
  • Before and after caring for someone at home who is sick with vomiting or diarrhea
  • Before and after treating a cut or wound
  • After using the toilet
  • After changing diapers or cleaning up a child who has used the toilet
  • After blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing
  • After touching an animal, animal feed, or animal waste
  • After handling pet food or pet treats
  • After touching garbage

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💫 Inspiring Quote ~ Never Alone

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“Don’t let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.” Taylor Caldwell

🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Play More

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Play more. Sometimes we get so involved in doing our lives and problem solving that we forget to take time to have some fun. You may have to block out a day for fun in your calendar. But the important thing is to have a little joy every day to keep you going and growing.

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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ You May Have No Choice in What You Write

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“Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.” ― Salman Rushdie

🍎 Health Hack ~ Rev Up Your Immune System

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“The immune system is the body’s defense against illness and infection. But when someone has a poor immune system, due to a disease such as cancer, they’re more likely to get sick easily. However — whether you have a naturally weaker or compromised immune system — you can help build it and protect your body by optimizing your eating plan. And the best way to strengthen your immune function may be to eat a nourishing diet that packs in immune–boosting foods.”

5 Food Types Supporting a Strong Immune System

  1. Berries
  2. Citrus fruits
  3. Nuts & seeds
  4. Green & orange vegetables
  5. Plant based food for gut health

Livestrong.com

Today’s Smile 😃

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“Doctor, there’s a patient on line 1 that says he’s invisible”

“Well, tell him I can’t see him right now.”

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Today’s Poem ~ The First Day

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The First Day

Christina Rossetti

I wish I could remember the first day,
First hour, first moment of your meeting me;
If bright or dim the season it might be;
Summer or winter for aught I can say.
So, unrecorded did it slip away,
So blind was i to see and to forsee,
So dull to mark the budding of my tree
That would not blossom, yet, for many a May.

If only I could recollect it! Such
A day of days! I let it come and go
As traceless as a thaw of bygone snow.
It seemed to mean so little, meant so much!
If only now I could recall that touch,
First touch of hand in hand! – Did one but know!

A Christmas Surprise ~ A short story of Christmas love

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A Christmas Surprise Book CoverA Christmas Surprise is a short story about a down and outer, Eddie Testa, who’s quit on Christmas. It’s Christmas Eve and Eddie can’t wait for Christmas to be over. His unemployment check arrives the day after Christmas. Until the check arrives, Eddie has four dollars and fifty cents he found in his change box to buy food. Eddie heads out into a dark, cold, doubly gray sky to buy a slice of pizza for lunch and a loaf of hot French bread for dinner and Christmas day. He knows he’ll make it if he can skip a couple of meals. Eddie’s life takes a series of twists and turns the moment he leaves his small two room apartment 83-year-old Sofia asks Eddie to buy her a can of soup from the discount wagon at the market. She promises to pay Eddie back when her retirement check comes in. Eddie slowly discovers Christmas is all about people and giving and receiving. What Eddie learns changes his life. And, it may change yours as well.

A Christmas Surprise is available as an eBook from Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082FRBS6J

A Christmas Surprise ~ A short story of Christmas love

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A Christmas Surprise

A Christmas Surprise Book CoverA Christmas Surprise is a short story about a down and outer, Eddie Testa, who’s quit on Christmas. It’s Christmas Eve and Eddie can’t wait for Christmas to be over. His unemployment check arrives the day after Christmas. Until the check arrives, Eddie has four dollars and fifty cents he found in his change box to buy food. Eddie heads out into a dark, cold, doubly gray sky to buy a slice of pizza for lunch and a loaf of hot French bread for dinner and Christmas day. He knows he’ll make it if he can skip a couple of meals. Eddie’s life takes a series of twists and turns the moment he leaves his small two room apartment 83-year-old Sofia asks Eddie to buy her a can of soup from the discount wagon at the market. She promises to pay Eddie back when her retirement check comes in. Eddie slowly discovers Christmas is all about people and giving and receiving. What Eddie learns changes his life. And, it may change yours as well.

A Christmas Surprise is available as an eBook from Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082FRBS6J

🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ 5 Keys to Happiness

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A 2010 study found that there are five key items that contribute to positive thinking, which, in turn, results in happiness:

(1) being grateful, (2) being optimistic, (3) practicing acts of kindness, (4) relishing in how lucky you are, and, (5) using your strengths. It’s in being aware of these aspects of your daily life that positive thoughts will flow, providing for better well-being and overall joy.

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