🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ Eat Like a Bird – Munch on Nuts & Seeds

Nuts Are a Nutritional Winner

Nuts and seeds are a rich source of plant protein, have plenty of dietary fiber, and are high in heart-healthy mono-and polyunsaturated fats (including plant omega-3 fatty acids) and low in saturated fats. They also contain many vitamins and minerals (such as vitamin E, magnesium, phosphorus, copper, and manganese) and a collection of plant chemicals with potential antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.

Try these tips to capitalize on the health benefits of nuts and seeds:

    • Choose nuts and seeds in place of less healthful options, like processed foods made with refined grains
    • Aim for a small palmful of nuts/seeds or a tablespoon of nut butter five days a week
    • Choose unsalted nuts and seeds and skip the sugary coatings.

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🤗 A Better Life ~ Send the Blues Packing

If the blues are knocking at your door, tell them you’re not buying. If they persist, put on a heavy shoe, kick them in the ass and send them tumbling down the street.

💡 Something to Think About

When the person you live with is your best friend, you discovered your treasure. Nurture and protect this relationship each moment and grow together in love.

👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ It’s Where You Finish that Counts

Everyone looks good at the starting line. It’s not where we start, it’s where we finish that counts. Never quit. Endure through the tough times. You’ll make it.

🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Let Go of Fear, Embrace Understanding

“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

~ Marie Curie

🌾 Today’s Poem ~ All Ye Joyful

All Ye Joyful
J. R. R. Tolkien
Sing all ye joyful, now sing all together!
The wind’s in the tree-top, the wind’s in the heather;
The stars are in blossom, the moon is in flower,
And bright are the windows of night in her tower.

Dance all ye joyful, now dance all together!
Soft is the grass, and let foot be like feather!
The river is silver, the shadows are fleeting;
Merry is May-time, and merry our meeting.

Sigh no more pine, till the wind of the morn!
Fall Moon! Dark be the land!
Hush! Hush! Oak, ash and thorn!
Hushed by all water, till dawn is at hand!

Today’s Smile 😃

Joe: “I’ve decided to look a few new job.”

Pete: “Why’s that, Joe?”

Joe: “It was something my boss said.”

Pete: ‘What did your boss say?”

Joe: “My boss said, ‘You’re fired.'”

✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Thinking Informs Writing

“To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.”

~ Ayn Rand

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🤗 A Better Life ~ A Common Space to Come Together

I have not met a single person who thinks the same way I think or holds true to all the values I hold true. At the same time, I have met lots of folks who want the same things I want: peace, health, freedom, love, security, and meaningful work. It’s this space where we come together as neighbors, friends, and community.

🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Fear Not, Dear Friend, But Freely Live Your Days

Fear Not, Dear Friend, But Freely Live Your Days
Robert Louis Stevenson
FEAR not, dear friend, but freely live your days
Though lesser lives should suffer. Such am I,
A lesser life, that what is his of sky
Gladly would give for you, and what of praise.
Step, without trouble, down the sunlit ways.
We that have touched your raiment, are made whole
From all the selfish cankers of man’s soul,
And we would see you happy, dear, or die.
Therefore be brave, and therefore, dear, be free;
Try all things resolutely, till the best,
Out of all lesser betters, you shall find;
And we, who have learned greatness from you, we,
Your lovers, with a still, contented mind,
See you well anchored in some port of rest.

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