Kindness and politeness will make a lot more friends than brilliance and a disrespectful bearing.
Month: June 2021
🍎 Today’s Health Question ~ Do You Know What Water Helps Your Body Do?
How Water Helps Your Body
Getting enough water every day is important for your health. Drinking water can prevent dehydration, a condition that can cause unclear thinking, result in mood change, cause your body to overheat, and lead to constipation and kidney stones.
Water helps your body:
- Keep a normal temperature
- Lubricate and cushion joints
- Protect your spinal cord and other sensitive tissues
- Get rid of wastes through urination, perspiration, and bowel movements
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ The Summer Day
The Summer Day
Mary Oliver
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean–
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down–
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean–
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down–
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?
Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: “I told a joke to my wife while she was having a baby.”
Pete: “What did she say, Joe?”
Joe: “I thought I did a good job until she told me to focus on the delivery.”
💡 Something to Think About
Everyone has to make their own decisions. We can offer advice, then it’s time to backoff. If they listen and act on our suggestions, that’s great. If they don’t, that’s great. Keep on loving them.
🍎 Today’s Health Question ~ What is the Relationship Between Nutrition and Good Health?
There is a strong relationship between nutrition and health
Make the right food choices to ensure you live the best life possible. . . .“Nutrition is the intake of food, considered in relation to the body’s dietary needs. Good nutrition – an adequate, well-balanced diet combined with regular physical activity – is a cornerstone of good health. Poor nutrition can lead to reduced immunity, increased susceptibility to disease, impaired physical and mental development, and reduced productivity.”
👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ What Questions are You Asking?
If you’re asking the right questions, you’ll get the right answers. The converse is also true, ask the wrong questions, get the wrong answers.
💡 Something to Think About
Is time to suck it up and make a call to someone you haven’t called in a long time? It’s better to live with no regrets than to regret what wasn’t done.
🤗 A Better Life ~ You Are Someone Special
The more we discover who we really are, the more we unleash the potential within us.
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Make the Turn
“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”
