I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. ~ Jackie Robinson
Month: January 2020
🍎 Health Hack ~ It’s Time for Guacamole
Make Avocados Your BFF
Avocado consumers were found to be much healthier than people who didn’t eat this fruit. They had a much higher nutrient intake and were half as likely to have metabolic syndrome, a cluster of symptoms that are a major risk factor for heart disease and diabetes (25Trusted Source). People who ate avocados regularly also weighed less, had a lower BMI and significantly less belly fat. They also had higher levels of “good” HDL cholesterol.
🤗Feel Good Hack ~ Reclaim Your Space
Reclaim a bit of personal time and space each day. A small block of time away from the pressures, chaos, and responsibilities of the day will recharge you. Don’t feel guilty about taking care of yourself!
Today’s Poem ~ Song of Hope
Song of Hope
Thomas Hardy
O sweet To-morrow! –
After to-day
There will away
This sense of sorrow.
Then let us borrow
Hope, for a gleaming
Soon will be streaming,
Dimmed by no gray –
No gray!
While the winds wing us
Sighs from The Gone,
Nearer to dawn
Minute-beats bring us;
When there will sing us
Larks of a glory
Waiting our story
Further anon –
Anon!
Doff the black token,
Don the red shoon,
Right and retune
Viol-strings broken;
Null the words spoken
In speeches of rueing,
The night cloud is hueing,
To-morrow shines soon –
Shines soon!
Today’s Smile 😃
Did you hear about the restaurant on the moon? Great food, no atmosphere.
🌞 Inspiring Quote ~ Dream Big Dreams
The more you dream the more you achieve. ~ Michael Phelps
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Sentences or Stories?
Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories. ~ James Patterson
🖋 Writers’ Wisdom ~ Developing the Plot
I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a brief synopsis… Do what is comfortable. If you have to plot out every move your characters make, so be it. Just make sure there is a plausible purpose behind their machinations. A good reader can smell a phony plot a block away. ~ Clive Cussler
🍎 Health Hack ~ #5 of 5 Cold Fighting Foods
Garlic
It’s long been known as a germ fighter. And one study showed garlic supplements may help prevent colds when taken daily. But more research needs to be done to figure out its real effects. It does have nutrients, and in food form it can also help spice up your meals when a stuffy nose makes everything taste bland.
Today’s Poem ~ Power of Love
Power of Love
Anne Bronte
Love, indeed thy strength is mighty
Thus, alone, such strife to bear —
Three ‘gainst one, and never ceasing —
Death, and Madness, and Despair!
‘Tis not my own strength has saved me;
Health, and hope, and fortitude,
But for love, had long since failed me;
Heart and soul had sunk subdued.
Often, in my wild impatience,
I have lost my trust in Heaven,
And my soul has tossed and struggled,
Like a vessel tempest-driven;
But the voice of my beloved
In my ear has seemed to say —
‘O, be patient if thou lov’st me!’
And the storm has passed away.
When outworn with weary thinking,
Sight and thought were waxing dim,
And my mind began to wander,
And my brain began to swim,
Then those hands outstretched to save me
Seemed to call me back again —
Those dark eyes did so implore me
To resume my reason’s reign,
That I could not but remember
How her hopes were fixed on me,
And, with one determined effort,
Rose, and shook my spirit free.
When hope leaves my weary spirit —
All the power to hold it gone —
That loved voice so loudly prays me,
‘For my sake, keep hoping on,’
That, at once my strength renewing,
Though Despair had crushed me down,
I can burst his bonds asunder,
And defy his deadliest frown.
When, from nights of restless tossing,
Days of gloom and pining care,
Pain and weakness, still increasing,
Seem to whisper ‘Death is near,’
And I almost bid him welcome,
Knowing he would bring release,
Weary of this restless struggle —
Longing to repose in peace,
Then a glance of fond reproval
Bids such selfish longings flee
And a voice of matchless music
Murmurs ‘Cherish life for me!’
Roused to newborn strength and courage,
Pain and grief, I cast away,
Health and life, I keenly follow,
Mighty Death is held at bay.
Yes, my love, I will be patient!
Firm and bold my heart shall be:
Fear not — though this life is dreary,
I can bear it well for thee.
Let our foes still rain upon me
Cruel wrongs and taunting scorn;
‘Tis for thee their hate pursues me,
And for thee, it shall be borne!
