“There’s something about rushing water that I can watch for hours and feel as if I need to do nothing more. It’s alive in a way that’s greater than any description of it.” ~ Mark Helprin
Month: May 2021
💡 Something to Think About
It’s not the goal that’s difficult. It’s the prep work, done everyday, often without reward that is difficult. Those that do will reach their goals. Those that don’t will always be staring at the summit. Which one are you?
🍎 Today’s Health Question ~ Are You Putting Your Life in Harm’s Way?
Texting and/or Cell Phone Use While Driving is Deadly
- Driving while texting causes 1.6 million car accidents in the US every year.
- 20% of US drivers reported sending emails or text messages while on the road.
- 25% of all car crashes in the US involved the use of a cell phone.
- In 2018, the number of deaths related to cell phone use in car accidents was 4,637 in the US alone.
- Almost 390,000 injuries occur annually in the US due to texting while driving.
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💡 Something to Think About
What are you looking for today? Whatever it is, chances are you’ll find it. Looking for something to make you angry? It’s waiting for you. Looking for a chance to be kind? It’s also there. Looking for the good in coworker? You’ll encounter it. What we search for, we usually find. Search for the right things and happiness will knock at your door.
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Do You Know Where You’re Going?
“If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”
~ Yogi Berra
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Writing Dialogue
“In dialogue, each speech, even if only a single word, is a paragraph by itself; that is, a new paragraph begins with each change of speaker. The application of this rule, when dialogue and narrative are combined, is best learned from examples in well-printed works of fiction.” ~ William Strunk
🤗 A Better Life ~ What Can You Change?
We cannot change others, we can only change ourselves. Before we can change, we’ve got to make a decision that the change is really something we want. If it is, it’s time to go all in.
👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ The Power of WE
We is always better than I or you. We discovers ways to cooperate. We discovers ways to work through problems. We builds thriving relationships. Think WE.
Today’s Smile 😃
An attendant in a mental hospital receives a call
The voice says: “Could you check if the patient in room 14 is still there?”
The Attendant answers: “A moment please”
The attendant checks room 14. And comes back to the phone: “No!! He’s gone!!”
The voice says: “Good, looks like I really escaped this time….”
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ The Wonderer
The Wonderer
Robert William Service
I wish that I could understand
The moving marvel of my Hand;
I watch my fingers turn and twist,
The supple bending of my wrist,
The dainty touch of finger-tip,
The steel intensity of grip;
A tool of exquisite design,
With pride I think: “It’s mine! It’s mine!”
The moving marvel of my Hand;
I watch my fingers turn and twist,
The supple bending of my wrist,
The dainty touch of finger-tip,
The steel intensity of grip;
A tool of exquisite design,
With pride I think: “It’s mine! It’s mine!”
Then there’s the wonder of my Eyes,
Where hills and houses, seas and skies,
In waves of light converge and pass,
And print themselves as on a glass.
Line, form and color live in me;
I am the Beauty that I see;
Ah! I could write a book of size
About the wonder of my Eyes.
What of the wonder of my Heart,
That plays so faithfully its part?
I hear it running sound and sweet;
It does not seem to miss a beat;
Between the cradle and the grave
It never falters, stanch and brave.
Alas! I wish I had the art
To tell the wonder of my Heart.
Then oh! but how can I explain
The wondrous wonder of my Brain?
That marvelous machine that brings
All consciousness of wonderings;
That lets me from myself leap out
And watch my body walk about;
It’s hopeless — all my words are vain
To tell the wonder of my Brain.
But do not think, O patient friend,
Who reads these stanzas to the end,
That I myself would glorify. . . .
You’re just as wonderful as I,
And all Creation in our view
Is quite as marvelous as you.
Come, let us on the sea-shore stand
And wonder at a grain of sand;
And then into the meadow pass
And marvel at a blade of grass;
Or cast our vision high and far
And thrill with wonder at a star;
A host of stars — night’s holy tent
Huge-glittering with wonderment.
If wonder is in great and small,
Then what of Him who made it all?
In eyes and brain and heart and limb
Let’s see the wondrous work of Him.
In house and hill and sward and sea,
In bird and beast and flower and tree,
In everything from sun to sod,
The wonder and the awe of God.
