“I believe a story almost always grows with me from a character; a certain kind of a person who always gets into trouble—or out—because he does certain sorts of things.” ~ Anne Shannon Monroe
Month: March 2021
Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: “My girlfriend told me she wanted me to be the sun in her life.”
Pete: “That was sweet.”
Joe: “Then she said, ‘I wish you 93 million miles away.”
💡 Something to Think About
When I becomes WE a relationship flourishes.
👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ Make the Moment Count
How we use our time each determines what we will achieve in our life. Use every moment to your advantage.
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Noble Deeds
Noble Deeds
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Whene’er a noble deed is wrought,
Whene’er is spoken a noble thought,
Our hearts in glad surprise,
To higher levels rise.
The tidal wave of deeper souls
Into our inmost being rolls,
And lifts us unawares
Out of all meaner cares.
Honor to those whose words or deeds
Thus help us in our daily needs,
And by their overflow
Raise us from what is low!
🤗 A Better Life ~ Why Not You?
Here’s something to think about. Take a few minutes to think about what your life might be like if what was impossible were possible. Here’s two questions to answer. Why not you? Why not now? Go for it. Choose to make the impossible possible.
Have a great day and share your radiant smile.
🍎 Today’s Health Question ~ Is Eating Healthier Better than Counting Calories for Weight Loss?
Focus on the Quality Instead of Calories for Weight Loss
Paying attention to the quality of the food is more effective for weight loss than religiously counting calories, according to a new study. Researchers at Stanford University found there is no significant difference in weight change between a healthy low-fat diet versus a healthy low-carbohydrate diet. . . . The takeaway is that the quality of what you eat is incredibly important. You may or may not need to eat an 1,800-calorie diet, but what you need is a diet that is based on whole and minimally processed foods without an excess of added sugars, salts and saturated fats.
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Don’t Ever Stop Dreaming, Dream On!
“It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.”
~ Alexander Pushkin
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Can You Make the Reader Feel the Rain?
“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader – not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.” ~ E. L. Doctorow
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Morning Joy
Morning Joy
Claude McKay
At night the wide and level stretch of wold,
Which at high noon had basked in quiet gold,
Far as the eye could see was ghostly white;
Dark was the night save for the snow’s weird light.
Which at high noon had basked in quiet gold,
Far as the eye could see was ghostly white;
Dark was the night save for the snow’s weird light.
I drew the shades far down, crept into bed;
Hearing the cold wind moaning overhead
Through the sad pines, my soul, catching its pain,
Went sorrowing with it across the plain.
At dawn, behold! the pall of night was gone,
Save where a few shrubs melancholy, lone,
Detained a fragile shadow. Golden-lipped
The laughing grasses heaven’s sweet wine sipped.
The sun rose smiling o’er the river’s breast,
And my soul, by his happy spirit blest,
Soared like a bird to greet him in the sky,
And drew out of his heart Eternity.
