Month: July 2021

🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Love after Love

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Love after Love

Derek Walcott

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

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🤗 A Better Life ~ It’s Time to Dance

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Each morning when I wake, I rejoice. I have another shot at life. I have another opportunity to sing, dance, and do what I can the best way I can. Excuse me, I hear a song and it’s time to dance again. Join with me in the great dance of life. 

🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ It’s Where Your Headed that Counts

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“It isn’t where you came from, its where you’re going that counts.”

~ Ella Fitzgerald

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👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ Transform the World Around You

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Whatever you do today, do it for those who you will touch. If you do it with love, joy, and give it your best effort you will transform the world around you. Shine On!

Today’s Smile 😃

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Joe: “I did a kind act today?

Pete: “What did you do, Joe?”

Joe: “I was talking to an old gal at the bank and she asked me to help her check her balance, so I pushed her over.”

✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ What is the Reason You’ve Chosen to be a Writer?

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“A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.”  ~ Ray Bradbury

🤗 A Better Life ~ Keep on Climbing

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Healthy people have an eye out for the mountain. They get excited about the climb. They know when the reach the peak, the climb has been worth the effort. Keeping an eye on the mountain top keeps our life force alive and working. Keep on climbing.

🍎 Today’s Health Question ~ Are Vegetarians and/or Vegans at Risk for Zinc Deficiency?

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Zinc is an essential mineral that plays an important role in many processes throughout your body. It keeps your immune system healthy, aids in wound-healing, and helps keep your senses of smell and taste sharp. . . . The best sources of zinc are meat and dairy. . . . If you’re a vegan or vegetarian, you might have a greater risk of a zinc deficiency. But there are plenty of plant foods to help you meet your daily requirements. These five plant foods are good sources of zinc: Tofu, seeds, nuts, legumes, and oats.

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💡 Something to Think About

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Make today a no excuse day. Are you using age as an excuse? Let it go. Are you blaming others for a failure? Let it go. Are you waiting for the right time to swing into action? Now is the time. TODAY IS A NO EXCUSE DAY!

🌾 Today’s Poem ~ I Loved You First: but afterwards your love

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I Loved You First: but afterwards your love

Christina Rossetti 

I loved you first: but afterwards your love
Outsoaring mine, sang such a loftier song
As drowned the friendly cooings of my dove.
Which owes the other most? my love was long,
And yours one moment seemed to wax more strong;
I loved and guessed at you, you construed me
And loved me for what might or might not be –
Nay, weights and measures do us both a wrong.
For verily love knows not ‘mine’ or ‘thine;’
With separate ‘I’ and ‘thou’ free love has done,
For one is both and both are one in love:
Rich love knows nought of ‘thine that is not mine;’
Both have the strength and both the length thereof,
Both of us, of the love which makes us one.

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