“Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.”
~ James Patterson
Month: July 2021
🤗 A Better Life ~ Patience Pays Off
Patience pays big dividends. When we exercise patience with a partner we know most disagreements will disappear and soon be forgotten. When we exercise patience with ourself, we know living is learning and mistakes are often our best teachers.
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Let Love Go On
Let Love Go On
Carl Sandburg
LET it go on; let the love of this hour be poured out till all the answers are made, the last dollar spent and the last blood gone.
Time runs with an ax and a hammer, time slides down the hallways with a pass-key and a master-key, and time gets by, time wins.
Let the love of this hour go on; let all the oaths and children and people of this love be clean as a washed stone under a waterfall in the sun.
Time is a young man with ballplayer legs, time runs a winning race against life and the clocks, time tickles with rust and spots.
Let love go on; the heartbeats are measured out with a measuring glass, so many apiece to gamble with, to use and spend and reckon; let love go on.
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ A Story’s Journey
“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right — as right as you can, anyway — it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it.”
~ Stephen King
🍎 Today’s Health Question ~ Do You Know Your GO SLOW AND WHOA FOODS?
GO foods are the lowest in fat, sugar and calories, and can be eaten almost anytime.E.g., fruits, vegetables, whole grains without added fats, lean cuts of meat, water, fat-free or 1 percent low-fat milk, baked chips or pretzels
SLOW foods are higher in fat, added sugar and calories and should be eaten sometimes or less often. E.g., pasta, fruits in light syrup, peanut butter, avocado, white rice, 2 percent low-fat milk.
WHOA foods should only be eaten occasionally. E.g., fried foods, cakes and doughnuts, whole milk and regular soda.
💡 Something to Think About
When we all do our part, everyone wins. When we all do our part we find ways through the sticking points. When we all do our part we celebrate our victories together.
Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: “If I listened to my wife I wouldn’t be in the trouble I am in right now.”
Pete: “What did she say?”
Joe: “I don’t know, I didn’t listen.”
👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ An Important Question
What are you living for? When you discover what you are living for you’ll find purpose and direction. Life will take on a whole knew meaning.
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Do Not Go Gentle into the Night
Do Not Go Gentle into the Night
Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieve it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Hang On – Never Quit!
“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”
~ Albert Camus
