Joe: “I was at my lawyer’s bedside when he woke up from surgery and asked why I had closed the blinds.”
Pete: “What did you say?”
Joe: “I said, ‘There’s a raging fire across the street and I didn’t want you think the operation was a failure.”
Month: May 2021
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Ray Bradbury on How to Write a Story
“You don’t pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not to think it. You start thinking – the story’s going to die on its feet.” ~ Ray Bradbury
🍎 Today’s Health Question ~ Can a Healthy Diet Reduce the Risk of Developing Cancer?
Eating foods containing antioxidants can reduce a person’s risk of developing cancer
The presence of free radicals in the body increases the risk of cancer, but antioxidants help remove them to lower the likelihood of this disease. Many phytochemicals found in fruits, vegetables, nuts, and legumes act as antioxidants, including beta-carotene, lycopene, and vitamins A, C, and E.
According to the National Cancer Institute, though humans trials are inconclusive, there are laboratory and animal studies that link certain antioxidants to a reduced incidence of free radical damage due to cancer.
Foods high in antioxidants include:
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- berries such as blueberries and raspberries
- dark leafy greens
- pumpkin and carrots
- nuts and seeds
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👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ Push Through the Threshold
There’s a threshold we all face when we’re striving for success in any aspect of life. If we’re to pass through the threshold we have to engage the struggle, chaos, and pain. It is at this point many turn away when they are so close to victory. Don’t quit, push through the threshold.
💡 Something to Think About
Birds swoop into my bird feeder as if it hosts a fantastic buffet. Every so often, a large hawk swoops in and picks up an unsuspecting dove walking out from the protection of the trees. In nature, there are consequences for actions. The same is true for humans. What we eat has consequences for our health. How we treat others has consequences for how others will treat us. Just like the birds flying in and out of my bird feeder, we have consequences for all our actions.
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ One of Life’s Gifts!
“There’s nothing better than meeting somebody with a great soul, and a great spirit and a good heart.” ~ Mark Wahlberg
Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: “I went to my proctologist for an exam.”
Pete: “How did it go?”
Joe: “While the proctologist was examining me, I said, “You can tell my boss my head isn’t up there.”
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ You Have a Special Gift
“We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” ~ Marie Curie
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Joy
Joy
Carl Sandburg
Let a joy keep you.
Reach out your hands
And take it when it runs by,
As the Apache dancer
Clutches his woman.
I have seen them
Live long and laugh loud,
Sent on singing, singing,
Smashed to the heart
Under the ribs
With a terrible love.
Joy always,
Joy everywhere–
Let joy kill you!
Keep away from the little deaths.
Reach out your hands
And take it when it runs by,
As the Apache dancer
Clutches his woman.
I have seen them
Live long and laugh loud,
Sent on singing, singing,
Smashed to the heart
Under the ribs
With a terrible love.
Joy always,
Joy everywhere–
Let joy kill you!
Keep away from the little deaths.
👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ I Like 2nd, 3rd, & 4th Chances
I like second chances. I also like third and fourth chances. I’ve been given enough of them by people who’ve made a difference in my life. Giving another chance to someone who’s fallen is a good way of paying back the second chances we’ve been given.
