Month: December 2019

A Christmas Surprise ~ A short story of Christmas love

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A Christmas Surprise is a short story about a down and outer, Eddie Testa, who’s quit A Christmas Surprise Book Coveron 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

Today’s Smile 😃

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“I was raised as an only child, which really annoyed my sister.”

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🖋 Writers’ Wisdom ~ Cut, Cut, Cut!

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‘You need to take out the stuff that’s just sitting there and doing nothing. No slackers allowed! All meat, no filler!” ― Stephen King

🍎 Health Hack ~ Good Relationships = Longevity

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[If] you’re surrounded by a tightly connected circle of friends who regularly gather to eat and share gossip, you’ll not only have fun but you’re also likely to live an average of fifteen years longer than a loner. One study of almost three thousand Americans found that people with close friendships are far less likely to die young, and in 2004 a Swedish epidemiologist discovered the lowest rate of dementia in people with extensive social networks. Fifty-year-old men with active friendships are less likely to have heart attacks than more solitary men, while people who have had a stroke are better protected from grave complications by a tight, supportive social network than they are by medication.

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Feel Good Hack ~ Clear Your Mind

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Take a brief meditation break. It’s simple: Sit quietly, close your eyes, and focus on your breathing. When you get distracted, just bring your attention back to your breath.

When you’re done, you could feel more positive and patient. That’s just what you need to shift the energy of your day and help you bounce back from stress.

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💫 Inspiring Quote ~ What a Wonderful World

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It is beautiful, the world, and life itself. I am glad I have lived. ~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Today’s Poem ~ Love and the Gentle Heart

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Love and the Gentle Heart

Dante Alighieri

Love and the gentle heart are one thing,
just as the poet says in his verse,
each from the other one as well divorced
as reason from the mind’s reasoning.

Nature craves love, and then creates love king,
and makes the heart a palace where he’ll stay,
perhaps a shorter or a longer day,
breathing quietly, gently slumbering.

Then beauty in a virtuous woman’s face
makes the eyes yearn, and strikes the heart,
so that the eyes’ desire’s reborn again,
and often, rooting there with longing, stays,

Till love, at last, out of its dreaming starts.
Woman’s moved likewise by a virtuous man.

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 

💫 Inspiring Quote ~ A Good Reminder

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Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves. ~ Eric Sevareid 

Today’s Poem ~ A Book of Verse

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A Book of Verse

Omar Khayyam

A book of verse, underneath the bough,
A jug of wine, a loaf of bread – and thou
Beside me singing in the wilderness –
Ah, wilderness were paradise enow!

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