Easter
Joyce Kilmer
The air is like a butterfly
With frail blue wings.
The happy earth looks at the sky
And sings.
Month: April 2021
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Be Confident and Hopeful
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” – Helen Keller
🤗 A Better Life ~ It’s Worth Trying
A Few ‘What if’s”
- What if fault finding is replaced by good finding in relationships?
- What if each morning I start the day believing this day is going to be a great day?
Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: “I got fired from my job as a massage therapist.”
Pete: “For what reason?”
Joe: “My boss said I rubbed people the wrong way.”
🍎 Today’s Health Question ~ Can Music Improve Your Health?
Turn Up The Tunes
If you’re looking for an easy way to transform your mood, cue the music. Studies have shown that music can buoy your mood and fend off depression. It can also improve blood flow in ways similar to statins, lower your levels of stress-related hormones like cortisol and ease pain. Listening to music before an operation can even improve post-surgery outcomes. How can music do so much good? Music seems to “selectively activate” neurochemical systems and brain structures associated with positive mood, emotion regulation, attention and memory in ways that promote beneficial changes, says Kim Innes, a professor of epidemiology at West Virginia University’s School of Public Health.
💡 Something to Think About
Life tosses us mysteries where there are no answers online or in a book. The mystery has to unfold in a time of its choosing. Trust it.
🍎 Today’s Health Question ~ How Important Are Social Connections to Health?
Social Connections are a Big Deal if you want to Remain Healthy
A relative lack of social ties is associated with depression and later-life cognitive decline, as well as with increased mortality. One study, which examined data from more than 309,000 people, found that lack of strong relationships increased the risk of premature death from all causes by 50% — an effect on mortality risk roughly comparable to smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day, and greater than obesity and physical inactivity.
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Craft of Writing
“We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.” ~ Ross Macdonald
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Is It Time to Change?
“Do Something.
If it works, do more of it.
If it doesn’t,
do something else.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Focus, Focus, Focus
“You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel.” ~ James M. Cain
