“Don’t set out to write something from beginning to end. A story is meant to be read from front to back, but not necessarily created that way.” ~ Chuck Sambuchino
Month: September 2021
Today’s Smile 😃
Pete: “Joe, what do you think of the adage, ‘An apple a day keeps the doctor away?”
Joe: “It’s true, if you can throw a fast ball and aim the apple well enough.”
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Trust Yourself
“An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.” ~ Ludwig van Beethoven
🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ Make Friends with Figs
Figs nutrition contains many vitamins and minerals that provide health benefits
Figs are a Powerful Antioxidant – Figs provide a huge service to the human body with their antioxidant capabilities. Because oxidation affects almost all body systems, the damage it causes has been linked to many major diseases, aging and cancer — as high-antioxidant foods, figs help stave off these conditions.
Figs have Anticancer Properties – Figs have a reputation in traditional medicine as a remedy for many health problems, including as a natural cancer treatment.
Figs Treat Common Illnesses – Figs have been used to treat a wide range of common ailments for thousands of years. More than 40 illnesses connected to the digestive, endocrine, reproductive and respiratory systems have been treated with fig fruit, extracts and components of the fig tree.
Figs have Antibacterial and Antifungal Effects – Figs can act as a natural antibacterial and anti-fungal agent. . . . There are also studies conducted in grass carp that shows effectiveness in figs’ ability to stimulate immune system response, thus making figs tremendous immune system boosters. This may explain why figs are such great common illness fighters, which are typically the work of bacteria and other invaders.
Figs are Great Source of Potassium, Fiber and Other Depleted Nutrients – Figs are a high-fiber food whether raw or dried, while they also provide anywhere from 7 percent to 19 percent of your daily potassium intake depending on how they’re prepared — thus, eating figs helps overcome low potassium levels.
💡 Something to Think About
What are your limitations? Are they real? For every limitation you can list, check out YouTube and you’ll find someone who has overcome a similar limitation. Lots of our limitations are self imposed. It’s as if we’ve voluntarily placed ourselves in a prison cell. Well, the cell is unlocked, walk out and leave the limitations behind.
👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ Choose a Challenging Path
Hundreds of paths are open to us. The easy paths are usually the wrong, most unfulfilling paths. Fill your backpack, choose the path that will challenge you and set out. Never look back. Never quit.
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Permission to Stuff Yourself
““If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed quickly, to trap them before they escape.” ~ Ray Bradbury
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Living a Life with Integrity
“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” ~ W. Clement Stone
Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: “When I got home, my girlfriend left a note on the fridge that said, ‘This isn’t working, bye.”
Pete: “What did you do?”
Joe: “I opened the fridge, sure the light was out, but my beer was cold.”
🤗 A Better Life ~ What’s Important
Do you have material things or do material things have you? It’s easy to discern by examining what we feel is important in our lives.
