“Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.” ~ Horace
Month: July 2021
🤗 A Better Life ~ How are you Choosing to Live
We can live in fear of what could or might happen. Or, we can live adventurously and enjoy each moment and the people and adventures the moment brings. How are you choosing to live?
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Write With Wild Abandon
“When you write – explode – fly apart – disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.”
~ Ray Bradbury
Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: I met a girl at a bar and asked her if she’d like to dance.”
Pete: “What did she say?”
Joe: “She said, Yes.” I said, “Great, can I have your stool?”
👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ Once They’re Gone, They’re Gone
Each of us on planet Earth have 24 hours to our day. Twenty-fours hours equals one thousand, four hundred and forty minutes. How many minutes are you using to chase your dream? How many minutes are you tossing away in meaningless pursuits?
🍎 Today’s Health Question ~ Are You Ready to Decide You Want to Be Healthy?
Healthy People Avoid the Following 5 Foods
If you want to be healthy, you have to make some life style adjustments (Perhaps you’ve already done so – good for you). Harvard Researchers suggest that eating these foods regularly can set the stage for life-threatening illnesses such as heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and even some cancers.
Added sugar
Baked sweets
White carbohydrates
Processed and high-fat meats
Salt
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ i am a little church
i am a little church
e. e. cummings
i am a little church(no great cathedral)
far from the splendor and squalor of hurrying cities
-i do not worry if briefer days grow briefest,
i am not sorry when sun and rain make april
my life is the life of the reaper and the sower;
my prayers are prayers of earth’s own clumsily striving
(finding and losing and laughing and crying)children
whose any sadness or joy is my grief or my gladness
around me surges a miracle of unceasing
birth and glory and death and resurrection:
over my sleeping self float flaming symbols
of hope,and i wake to a perfect patience of mountains
i am a little church(far from the frantic
world with its rapture and anguish)at peace with nature
-i do not worry if longer nights grow longest;
i am not sorry when silence becomes singing
winter by spring,i lift my diminutive spire to
merciful Him Whose only now is forever:
standing erect in the deathless truth of His presence
(welcoming humbly His light and proudly His darkness)
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Sonnets 03: Not With Libations, But With Shouts And Laughter
Sonnets 03: Not With Libations, But With Shouts And Laughter
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Not with libations, but with shouts and laughter
We drenched the altars of Love’s sacred grove,
Shaking to earth green fruits, impatient after
The launching of the colored moths of Love.
Love’s proper myrtle and his mother’s zone
We bound about our irreligious brows,
And fettered him with garlands of our own,
And spread a banquet in his frugal house.
Not yet the god has spoken; but I fear
Though we should break our bodies in his flame,
And pour our blood upon his altar, here
Henceforward is a grove without a name,
A pasture to the shaggy goats of Pan,
Whence flee forever a woman and a man.
We drenched the altars of Love’s sacred grove,
Shaking to earth green fruits, impatient after
The launching of the colored moths of Love.
Love’s proper myrtle and his mother’s zone
We bound about our irreligious brows,
And fettered him with garlands of our own,
And spread a banquet in his frugal house.
Not yet the god has spoken; but I fear
Though we should break our bodies in his flame,
And pour our blood upon his altar, here
Henceforward is a grove without a name,
A pasture to the shaggy goats of Pan,
Whence flee forever a woman and a man.
🍎 Today’s Health Question ~ Are You Conscientious?
If You’re Conscientious Chances are You’ll Live a Long Life
In their 2012 book, “The Longevity Project,” which looked at research over the course of 80 years, authors Howard S. Friedman and Leslie R. Martin identified an association between being conscientious and a longer life span. “Conscientiousness, which was the best predictor of longevity when measured in childhood, also turned out to be the best personality predictor of long life when measured in adulthood. . . . Why do more prudent people tend to live longer? According to the authors, this group is more likely to take care of their health and avoid risks, and they also develop healthier relationships, whether it be romantic, friendly or work-related.
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Want a Rainbow?
“If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.” ~ Augustus
