Vitamin E can be a powerful antioxidant that helps your body fight off infection. This important vitamin — part of nearly 200 biochemical reactions in your body — is critical in how your immune system functions. To get your vitamin E, think high-fat plant foods such as:
Almonds.
Peanuts/peanut butter.
Sunflower seeds.
Oils such as sunflower, safflower, and soybean oil.
Hazelnuts.
“If you came by it easy, you wouldn’t be you.” ~ Rodney Crowell
Whose back do you have today? When we have each other’s back, the world is a bit more friendlier, kinder, and gentle.
We have been together
Four Aprils now
Watching for the green
On the swaying willow bough;
Yet whenever I turn
To your gray eyes over me,
It is as though I looked
For the first time at the sea.
Joe: “I told my doctor that every time I touch my shoulder, jaw, or knee it really hurts.”
Pete: “That’s too bad, Joe. What did your doctor say?”
Joe: “My doctor told me my index finger was broken.”
“A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons — must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.”
~ Jorge Luis Borges, Twenty-Four Conversations with Borges, Including a Selection of Poems : Interviews by Roberto Alifano, 1981–1983
Everyone gets the blues, don’t give in to them. The storms will pass. A new day is coming. You’ll rise up again. Better days are ahead. Never quit.
Some things we take for granted until we no longer have them like good health, friendship, and love. When we lose them we experience a great emptiness. Nurture your health, friendships, and those you love. The payoff is better than anything the stock market can give you.
Asking a different question will get us a different, answer. If the question is designed to elicit a positive response it will often get a great answer. Here’s a true example. I was working with a group when I introduced this concept. When I met the group the following week, a member of the group spoke to me and said, “I was having a difficult time communicating with my teenage son. When he’d come home from school I’d ask, “How was your day?” He’d say, “Okay,” and head into his room. After we met last week, I was ready to ask a different question when he came home from school, “I said, ‘Tell me something good that happened to you today?” He stared at me for a moment, and said, “I found a parking place close to the school.” I never knew how important that was to him. We talked about it. Now, at dinner table, everyone in the family shares something good that happened to them during the day. It has made such a big improvement in our family.”
Dawn of Spring has unfolded her winter-kept garment
And placed it on the peach and citrus trees; and
They appear as brides in the ceremonial custom of
the Night of Kedre.
The sprigs of grapevine embrace each other like
Sweethearts, and the brooks burst out in dance
Between the rocks, repeating the song of joy;
And the flowers bud suddenly from the heart of
Nature, like foam from the rich heart of the sea.
Come, my beloved; let us drink the last of Winter’s
Tears from the cupped lilies, and soothe our spirits
With the shower of notes from the birds, and wander
In exhilaration through the intoxicating breeze.
Let us sit by that rock, where violets hide; let us
Pursue their exchange of the sweetness of kisses.
