Month: May 2020

COVID-19 Is a Bummer – It Can’t Stop Good Things From Happening

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COVID-19 Is a Bummer – It Can’t Stop Good Things From Happening

Here are a few of the good things I witnessed or experienced today:

  • A neighbor stopped me as I was finishing my walk. She said she hadn’t seen me in a week and she was worried. Blessings on her. A good person. A good neighbor.
  • I don’t like to go to the store to often these days. I make due with with I have. Tonight I made pasta primavera with tofu. It was delicious. Grateful.
  • I wake up each day in a great mood and filled with hope. It’s a gift. It’s grace. Whatever it is, I didn’t earn it. Grateful.
  • We’re another day closer to a solution. Knowing we’re a day closer is enough to make me want to toss a party. One day I will toss one and it will be fun. Don’tgive up. Stay strong, keep practicing social distancing, and watch for soaring eagles. They’re a good sign.

The little things are priceless treasures to me. They brighten my day. I hope your day is filled to overflowing with the little things that make life worth living.

Grateful for all the above.

If you’d like to share the good things you’ve witnessed on my blog, Email me (ray.brese@gmail.com) a short list (1 to 5 things.  I’ll post and attribute them to you in the way you choose to be acknowledged (e.g., anonymous, name, Word Press blog (etc.).

🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Practice Kindness

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Want to Feel Good? Practice Kindness

Being kind can strengthen your relationships and sense of satisfaction in life. [It means] opening your eyes and noticing when others are suffering. A kind word, a smile, opening a door, or helping carry a heavy load can all be acts of kindness. Celebrating someone you love, giving honest compliments, sending an email thanking someone, telling someone how s/he is special to you, helping an elderly neighbor with yard work or food, taking a photo of someone and sending it to the person, sharing homemade food, refusing to gossip, and donating old clothing and things you don’t need are all ideas about how to practice kindness. 

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🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ Make Good Choices

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“You can’t afford to get sick, and you can’t depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It’s up to you to protect and maintain your body’s innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.” 

~ Dr. Andrew Weill

Make the right choices for your health: 1) eat nutritious foods; 2) exercise regularly; 3) get proper sleep; and 4) practice mindfulness. You have a gift the world needs, we want you around a long time. Stay healthy. Ray

✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Trust the Character’s Wisdom

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“Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.” 

~Randy Wayne White

👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ You Know It!

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I took the “t” off of can’t and suddenly my day turned right around. Yes, I CAN!

🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Keep Showing Up

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“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.”

~ Anne Lamott

🌾 Today’s Poem ~ The Arrow & the Song

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 The Arrow and the Song

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I shout an arrow into the air,
  It fell to earth, I knew not where;
  For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
  Could not follow it in its flight.

  I breathed a song into the air,
  It fell to earth, I knew not where;
  For who has sight so keen and strong,
  That it can follow the flight of song?

  Long, long afterward, in an oak
  I found the arrow, still unbroke;
  And the song, from beginning to end,
  I found again in the heart of a friend.

COVID-19 Is a Bummer – It Can’t Stop Good Things from Happening

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COVID-19 Is a Bummer – It Can’t Stop Good Things From Happening

Here are a few of the good things I witnessed or experienced today:

  • Four different neighbors stopped me on my walk and asked how I was doing. People caring about each other. We’ll get through. Grateful.
  • Lessons this time is teaching me: 1) Health is really important. 2) Helping each other where possible is essential. 3) Understanding at a deeper level how we are connected throughout the globe in this struggle. It is a human problem. I now see more with my heart than with my eyes.
  • I made a small pizza for dinner (Hey, I’m Italian, right! LOL). It was very good. Grateful.
  • We’re another day closer to a solution. Knowing we’re a day closer is enough to make me dance. Don’tgive up. Stay strong, keep practicing social distancing, and watch for clearing skies.

The little things are priceless treasures to me. They brighten my day. I hope your day is filled to overflowing with the little things that make life worth living.

Grateful for all the above.

If you’d like to share the good things you’ve witnessed on my blog, Email me (ray.brese@gmail.com) a short list (1 to 5 things.  I’ll post and attribute them to you in the way you choose to be acknowledged (e.g., anonymous, name, Word Press blog (etc.).

Today’s Smile 😃

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Todd: “Why do all the girls in our neighborhood have the same phone number?”

Larry: “Surely you’re mistaken. What do you mean?”

Todd: “Every girl I ask out for drinks gives me the same number, 555.555.5555.

🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Relationships Take Work, They’re Worth It

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Want to be Happy? Build Strong Social Relationships

There is one—and only one—characteristic that distinguishes the happiest 10 percent from everyone else: the strength of their social relationships. My empirical study of well-being among 1,600 Harvard undergraduates found a similar result—social support was a far greater predictor of happiness than any other factor, more than GPA, family income, SAT scores, age, gender, or race. . . .  more social support you have, the happier you are. . . . If you do one thing today to be happier, spend time with friends.

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