“I carry with me many scars, but I also carry with me moments that would not have happened if I had not dared to go beyond my limits.” ~ Paulo Coehlo
Love Song
Rainer Maria Rilke
How can I keep my soul in me, so that
it doesn’t touch your soul? How can I raise
it high enough, past you, to other things?
I would like to shelter it, among remote
lost objects, in some dark and silent place
that doesn’t resonate when your depths resound.
Yet everything that touches us, me and you,
takes us together like a violin’s bow,
which draws one voice out of two separate strings.
Upon what instrument are we two spanned?
And what musician holds us in his hand?
Oh sweetest song.
“You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn’t care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can’t be a way of life – the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.”
~ Doris Lessing
Winter may be holding on, but spring is on the horizon. Each day gives us more daylight. The sun continues it journey toward the spring equinox. The seasons are a wonderful life metaphor for patience, endurance, and trust.
We are who we are because of the journey we’ve taken. If we love who we are, we’ll be grateful for the journey. It made us stronger, wiser, and taught us how to rise each time we fell. It’s all good. It’s going to get better.
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Joe: “This past weekend I went to the cliff and yelled, “You are handsome and intelligent.”
Pete: “Did you hear your echo?”
Joe: “Yes. My echo came back, “I just want to be friends.”
There are studies that support exercising in a fasted state, more medical advice points to consuming smart, nutritious snacks before you hit the gym to enhance your performance. Exercising on an empty stomach can lead the digestive system to break down muscle tissue, which isn’t helpful if you’re training to get stronger, faster or lose weight. . . The closer you get to exercise time, the simpler your choices need to be in order to help your body utilize energy more efficiently. If you can eat 2-3 hours prior to exercise, a large meal with complex carbs will have time to be absorbed and processed. But, if you need to eat closer to your workout (within about an hour, or so), it’s best to choose a simpler snack.
“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.”
~ Eric Hoffer
