We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. ~ Sam Keen
Month: January 2020
Today’s Poem ~ Come Live With Me and Be My Love
Come Live With Me and Be My Love
Christopher Marlowe
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods or steepy mountain yields.
And we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;
A gown made of the wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair lined slippers for the cold,
With buckles of th purest gold;
A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs:
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me and be my love.
The shepherds’ swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love.
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
🍎 Health Hack ~ Eating Smart in 2020
Base your diet around vegetables, fruits, legumes, whole grains, and small portions of nuts. Limit your intake of meat (especially processed meats like bacon and hot dogs). Try your best to eliminate refined carbohydrates (pasta, white rice), sweets, sweetened beverages, and added salt. Fish and shellfish can be a healthy choice as long as you vary the kinds you eat to minimize exposure to contaminants from pollution. Avoid trans fats and replace saturated fat with mono- and polyunsaturated fats. A Mediterranean-style diet, the DASH eating plan, and a balanced vegetarian diet are all good options.
🖋 Writers’ Wisdom ~ Best to Avoid . . .
“Avoid cliques, gangs, groups. The presence of a crowd won’t make your writing any better than it is.” ~ Zadie Smith
🌞 Inspiring Quote ~ Time to Really See
“To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.” ~ Claude Monet
Today’s Smile 😃
Q: Why do so few men end up in Heaven?
A: They never stop to ask directions
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Seeing Differently
When we aren’t feeling good about our lives, it’s usually because one or two things went wrong; we focus on these things; and we get obsessive to the point of not being able to see the good that is all around us. Yet, little moments of appreciation can make the difference between a good day and a bad one.
Remember a sunrise or sunset.
Appreciate someone.
Do something new.
Take time to count blessings (being grateful)
🍎 Health Hack ~Reducing the Risk for Cancer
Exercise may reduce the odds you’ll develop any of seven types of cancer — and a new study suggests the more you exercise, the lower your risk.
That’s the conclusion of researchers who pooled data from nine published studies that included more than 750,000 men and women.
“We found that the recommended amount of physical activity was in fact associated with significantly reduced risk for breast, colon, endometrial, kidney, liver, myeloma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma,” said lead researcher Charles Matthews, a senior investigator at the U.S. National Cancer Institute.
U.S. guidelines recommend three to five hours a week of moderate activity for adults, or one to three hours a week of vigorous activity.
The study authors found that the harder you exercise for that recommended time, the more you reduce your cancer risk.
Source
Today’s Poem ~ One Day I Wrote Her Name
One Day I Wrote Her Name
Edmund Spenser
One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away:
Again I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide and made my pains his prey.
“Vain man,” said she, “that dost in vain essay
A mortal thing so to immortalize;
For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eke my name be wiped out likewise.”
“Not so,” quoth I; “let baser things devise
To lie in dust, but you shall live by fame;
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write you glorious name:
Where, whenas Death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew.”
Today’s Smile 😃
Dentist: “This will hurt a little.”
Patient: “OK.”
Dentist: “I’ve been having an affair with your wife for a while now.”
