Joe: “I caught my girlfriend cheating with my best friend.”
Pete: “That’s terrible, Joe. What did you do?”
Joe: “I told them that was the last time I was playing Monopoly with them.”
Month: October 2021
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Feeling What You Write
““I like writing organically. So I don’t force anything out. I allow myself to be. I allow myself to feel. I allow the words to come to me like the wind. And I try to catch whatever message that is whispered in the breeze.”
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🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ Will Exercising Give You More Energy?
Exercising Pours Fuel into Your Body
It might sound strange, but it’s true that moving more can help give you more energy, through several mechanisms. To begin with, cellular-level changes occur inside your body when you exercise. Exertion spurs your body to produce more mitochondria inside your muscle cells. Mitochondria are known as the powerhouses of cells, because they create fuel out of glucose from the food you eat and oxygen from the air you breathe. Having more of them increases your body’s energy supply. Exercising also boosts oxygen circulation inside your body. This increase in oxygen not only supports the mitochondria’s energy production, it allows your body to function better and to use its energy more efficiently. Plus, your body gets a boost from an exercise-induced increase in hormone levels that makes you feel more energized.
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Courage
Courage
Claude McKay
O lonely heart so timid of approach,
Like the shy tropic flower that shuts its lips
To the faint touch of tender finger tips:
What is your word? What question would you broach?
Like the shy tropic flower that shuts its lips
To the faint touch of tender finger tips:
What is your word? What question would you broach?
Your lustrous-warm eyes are too sadly kind
To mask the meaning of your dreamy tale,
Your guarded life too exquisitely frail
Against the daggers of my warring mind.
There is no part of the unyielding earth,
Even bare rocks where the eagles build their nest,
Will give us undisturbed and friendly rest.
No dewfall softens this vast belt of dearth.
But in the socket-chiseled teeth of strife,
That gleam in serried files in all the lands,
We may join hungry, understanding hands,
And drink our share of ardent love and life.
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Keep Believing and Never Give Up
“It’s kind of hard to keep going sometimes but you just have to believe in what you are and what you can do and that’s the way to success.” ~ Buddy Guy
👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ Your Heart Has a Map to Follow
Lots of folks believe their mission in life is to tell others who to be and what to be. Don’t listen to them. Listen to your heart. Your heart has its own map. That’s the map you want to follow. Be yourself, that’s your best self.
Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: “I thought my personal trainer girlfriend was a keeper, but she broke up with me.”
Pete: “What happened?”
Joe: “She said, ‘I just wasn’t working out.'”
🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ Is Pasta a Healthy Choice?
Healthy Reasons to Eat Pasta
Pasta is often made out to be a guilty pleasure. But it actually boasts a number of health benefits that make it a true good-for-you food when eaten in the right amounts. Pasta is associated with a significantly better diet quality overall, as well as a greater intake of so-called “shortfall nutrients,” including: folate, magnesium, and dietary fiber. Nutrients that are under-consumed and are a public health concern are known as shortfall nutrients. Research in Frontiers in Nutrition also shows that people who eat pasta have lower daily intakes of saturated fat and added sugar than non-pasta eaters. Although we don’t know exactly why, we think it may be because those who incorporate pasta as part of a balanced diet are less likely to feel deprived and, therefore, less likely to binge when presented with the opportunity to eat pasta. . . . Pasta is a wonderful, delicious, nutritious part of any diet. As long as you remember to watch your portions, you should be able to enjoy this staple of Italian cuisine as part of a balanced healthy diet.
Note: I grew up in an Italian family and ate pasta at least four times a week. I may be biased. LOL
🤗 A Better Life ~ It’s a Way to Walk Through Life
When the sky is blue and the sun shining on you offer a kind word to one walking in the darkness. Offer a helping hand to one caught in life’s storms. One day, it will our turn to walk in the darkness.
💡 Something to Think About
Fill your tank with love, let it spill over the top and roll all over the ground. It’s time to dance a happy dance and sing a joyful song. C’mon, you can do it. Start singing and before you know it, you’ll catch the fever and pass it on.
