Joe: “The personnel office at work asked me who I want listed as an emergency contact.”
Pete: “What did you say?”
Joe: ” I said, ‘A very good doctor.'”
Month: December 2020
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Laugh and be Merry
Laugh and be Merry
John Masefield
Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,
Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.
Laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span.
Laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man.
Laugh and be merry: remember, in olden time.
God made Heaven and Earth for joy He took in a rhyme,
Made them, and filled them full with the strong red wine of
His mirth
The splendid joy of the stars: the joy of the earth.
So we must laugh and drink from the deep blue cup of the sky,
Join the jubilant song of the great stars sweeping by,
Laugh, and battle, and work, and drink of the wine outpoured
In the dear green earth, the sign of the joy of the Lord.
Laugh and be merry together, like brothers akin,
Guesting awhile in the rooms of a beautiful inn,
Glad till the dancing stops, and the lilt of the music ends.
Laugh till the game is played; and be you merry, my friends.
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Knowing When to Stop
“Always stop while you are going good and don’t worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry bout it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start.”
~ Ernest Hemingway
👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ A Pathway Through
Live your life today so you won’t have any regrets tomorrow.
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Don’t Dare Quit – You’ll Succeed
“For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!”
🍎 Today’s Health Question ~ Want a Formula for Healthy Eating?
Nutrient-richness is the key to the World’s Healthiest Foods Way of Eating.
Nutrient-richness is the measurement of how many nutrients (vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, protein, fiber, carbohydrates, omega-3 fatty acids, and phytonutrients) you will receive from your food for the least number of calories.
Source
Nutrient-Richness = Maximum Nutrients
Minimal Calories
Here’s an example: Foods like spinach, broccoli, or red peppers are high in nutrients and low in calories. There are many other similar types of foods.
💡 Something to Think About
Imagine standing erect, arms outstretched parallel to the ground. Take your imagination one step further. Imagine your arms are a continuous pipe with a turn on and off spigot on each wrist. Water will flow through the pipe if both spigots are open. It’s the same way with love. We can’t contain it. Let it flow into you, through you, and move beyond you to others.
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Believe in What You Write
““The most helpful quality a writer can cultivate is self-confidence – arrogance, if you can manage it. You write to impose yourself on the world, and you have to believe in your own ability when the world shows no sign of agreeing with you.”
~ Hilary Mantel
🤗 A Better Life ~ Today is Your Day
Today is special. It is a day designed and made for you. Jump in with both feet. Dance through the minutes. Rejoice in all the blessings that descend on you.
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ The Road that has No End
The Road that has no End
Joseph Burrows
Hast ever tramped along the road
That has no end?
The far brown winding road, your one
Fast friend
A tattered weather-beaten swag,
A silent mate
To send
His dumb warm comfort to the heart,
A fount where dreams ascend.
There’s wondrous freedom on the road
That has no end;
A man,s heart glows, his spirit leaps
To blend
Its joy of life with fierce wind’s gust
Upon his face:
To lend
Its cry to Nature’s tumult, full
And shrill, as twilight shades descend.
The flowers bloom along the road
That has no end
Cool breezes blow, the gum trees sway
And bend;
The wild doves woo, and softly coo
Their soothing notes,
And mend
Heart’s throbbing pain to sweet content,
And peace lights on the mind’s sad trend
There’s pain and toil along the road
That has no end;
A sinking heart, and weary feet
That spend
Their strength, and lag and crave respite;
And dim tired eyes
That tend
To close their heavy lids upon
The stinging dusts that upward wend.
There are sweet still hours along the road
That has no end
Neath twinkling stars when night’s deep shades
O’erpend;
A man’s eyes shine with gathered tears,
And memories come
To rend
His straining heart strings, while above
The paling lights his mood commend.
I love the road, the swagman’s road
That has no end;
I love its joys, that pains and toils
Transcend;
It is my dreams, the life that fills my heart
And when death comes and would
My peacefulness
Amend,
I pray that God may let my soul depart
With my tattered swag beside me,
Mid my friends that never chide me,
And my face towards the distant clouded hill,
Where leads the far brown winding road
That has no end.
