Daring to love deeply is risking getting hurt. Those who have loved deeply and been hurt know they received much more than they lost. Don’t be afraid of love or to love. Love makes the world go round.
Month: January 2021
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Daffodils
Daffodils
William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
🍎 Today’s Health Question ~ Is Anger Harmful to Your Health?
It Depends on How You Manage or Mismanage Your Anger
Well-managed anger can be a useful emotion that motivates you to make positive changes. On the other hand, anger is a powerful emotion and if it isn’t handled appropriately, it may have destructive results for you and those closest to you. Uncontrolled anger can lead to arguments, physical fights, physical abuse, assault and self-harm.
Some of the short and long-term health problems that have been linked to unmanaged anger include:
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- headache
- digestion problems, such as abdominal pain
- insomnia
- increased anxiety
- depression
- high blood pressure
- skin problems, such as eczema
- heart attack
- stroke.
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Go The Extra Mile and You’ll Go Far
“There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.”
~ Roger Staubach
👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ Write Your Own Story
Are you writing your own story? If not, why not? Take a chance and discover the great story within you.
🤗 A Better Life ~ On Being Fully Awake
On days when I am awake and into the present moment, I experience the wonders of being alive. Love, joy, and happiness happen in these moments. I hope you experience many of them.
Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: “My girlfriend is like a unicorn.”
Pete: “In what way, Joe?”
Joe: “She doesn’t exist.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Hemingway’s Opening Paragraph in “A Farewell to Arms”
Opening Paragraph, A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels. Troops went by the house and down the road and the dust they raised powdered the leaves of the trees. The trunks of the trees too were dusty and the leaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the road and the dust rising and leaves, stirred by the breeze, falling and the soldiers marching and afterward the road bare and white except for the leaves.
Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: “My girlfriend broke up with me.”
Pete: “How long had you been together?”
Joe: “Since yesterday.”
Something to Think About
In Leo Tolstoy’s short story, Three Questions, Tolstoy answers three questions in the short story: “The King went up to him and said: “I have come to you, wise hermit, to ask you to answer three questions: How can I learn to do the right thing at the right time? Who are the people I most need, and to whom should I, therefore, pay more attention than to the rest? And, what affairs are the most important, and need my first attention?”
How would you answer these questions for the king?
I won’t spoil the story for you. It is available free on line from Gutenberg.org.
