There are times when we become so used to doing something it becomes routine. Taking a break from our routines is a good way to assess if our routines are healthy or unhealthy for us. Is it time for you to evaluate or take a break from your routines?
Month: June 2021
🤗 A Better Life ~ A World of Difference Makes a World of Difference
It’s a new day when we grasp that others don’t have to be like us, think like us, or believe like us to be our friends.
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Never Quit Trying
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ Take the First Step
Fear paralyzes. Courages takes the first step, then another step, and another step. There will never be the perfect time to take the first step, so take it.
Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: “My co-workers told me I made a totally inappropriate joke about water.”
Pete: “What did they say?”
Joe: “They said it was tasteless.”
🍎 Today’s Health Question ~ Does Smiling Affect Your Physical Health?
“A new study suggests smiles—the more genuine, the better—help you bounce back from stress. . . . researchers at the University of Kansas found that the act of smiling has a positive effect on our happiness and physical health, helping the heart recover more quickly after stressful events. . . . “The neat thing about this is that smiling during the stressful period also has positive benefits for your heart health for several minutes after you’re smiling. . . . It’s good for emotional and social health and well-being, but this really is the first study among its kind to show that smiling is beneficial to you physically.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Want A Writer’s Source for Writing Ideas?
“The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.”
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Sunrise
Sunrise
Mary Oliver
You can
die for it-
an idea,
or the world. People
have done so,
brilliantly,
letting
their small bodies be bound
to the stake,
creating
an unforgettable
fury of light. But
this morning,
climbing the familiar hills
in the familiar
fabric of dawn, I thought
of China,
and India
and Europe, and I thought
how the sun
blazes
for everyone just
so joyfully
as it rises
under the lashes
of my own eyes, and I thought
I am so many!
What is my name?
What is the name
of the deep breath I would take
over and over
for all of us? Call it
whatever you want, it is
happiness, it is another one
of the ways to enter
fire.
die for it-
an idea,
or the world. People
have done so,
brilliantly,
letting
their small bodies be bound
to the stake,
creating
an unforgettable
fury of light. But
this morning,
climbing the familiar hills
in the familiar
fabric of dawn, I thought
of China,
and India
and Europe, and I thought
how the sun
blazes
for everyone just
so joyfully
as it rises
under the lashes
of my own eyes, and I thought
I am so many!
What is my name?
What is the name
of the deep breath I would take
over and over
for all of us? Call it
whatever you want, it is
happiness, it is another one
of the ways to enter
fire.
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ What is the Essence of the Short Story?
“Sometimes … the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity of suggestion. A single incident, a mere anecdote – these form the spine of the short short.”
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Are You Hiding or Taking a Chance?
“An essential element of any art is risk. If you don’t take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn’t been seen before?”
~ Francis Ford Coppola
