Month: November 2021

🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Flower-Gathering

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Flower-Gathering
Robert Frost
I LEFT you in the morning,
And in the morning glow,
You walked a way beside me
To make me sad to go.
Do you know me in the gloaming,
Gaunt and dusty gray with roaming?
Are you dumb because you know me not,
Or dumb because you know?

All for me And not a question
For the faded flowers gay
That could take me from beside you
For the ages of a day?
They are yours, and be the measure
Of their worth for you to treasure,
The measure of the little while
That I’ve been long away.

🤗 A Better Life ~ What are Your Eyes Seeing?

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What eyes are you using to view the world? Are they eyes of fear? Or, are they eyes of faith? Are they eyes of anger? Or, are they eyes of understanding? Are they eyes that see nothing new? Or, are they eyes that see beauty and wonder abounding?

👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ Choose to Act Now

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Don’t over think, act. Be flexible and adapt to changing circumstances. Action will take you a lot further than sitting on your hands. 

🤗 A Better Life ~ Do You Hear Your Inner Voice?

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Do you hear the voice inside you pointing the way? Sometimes the voice is like a gentle summer’s breeze. Other times, it has the force of a hurricane, screaming at you. Listen to the voice, you’ll find your meaning in the way it points.

🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ Healthy Habits Lead to Happiness

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In “The Mayo Clinic Handbook for Happiness,” Amit Sood lists several healthy habits that can help you boost your happiness. By choosing healthy habits, you can decrease your stress and increase the energy available to you each day — making it easier to do the things that bring you joy.

Here are three of the habits from “The Mayo Clinic Handbook for Happiness.”

  1. Eat a healthy diet. Physically, and to some extent emotionally, you become what you eat. That makes your diet extremely important. Three aspects to pay attention to are what you eat, how much you eat and how you eat.
  2. Keep your body agile. Almost everything you want in life will be easier to achieve if you’re more physically active. Each week, most healthy adults should get at least 150 minutes of moderate or 75 minutes of vigorous aerobic activity, in addition to muscle-strengthening exercises. Work toward getting enough physical activity with these ideas:
  3. Get enough good-quality sleep. More than half of us don’t get enough sleep, and often, our sleep is not restful. Your brain and body age faster with lack of sleep. Sleep is brain food, so consider sleep a sacred time.

Learn more about the book and about Dr. Sood’s Resilient Living program.

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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Getting Past Writing Anxiety

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“I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.” ~ Philip Roth

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🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Can You Feel the Light?

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“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore

 

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🌾 Today’s Poem ~ A Ritual To Read To Each Other

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A Ritual To Read To Each Other
William Stafford
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and I don’t know the kind of person you are
a pattern that others made may prevail in the world
and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.

For there is many a small betrayal in the mind,
a shrug that lets the fragile sequence break
sending with shouts the horrible errors of childhood
storming out to play through the broken dyke.

And as elephants parade holding each elephant’s tail,
but if one wanders the circus won’t find the park,
I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty
to know what occurs but not recognize the fact.

And so I appeal to a voice, to something shadowy,
a remote important region in all who talk:
though we could fool each other, we should consider–
lest the parade of our mutual life get lost in the dark.

For it is important that awake people be awake,
or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep;
the signals we give–yes or no, or maybe–
should be clear: the darkness around us is deep.

💡 Something to Think About

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It’s important when making important decisions to seek advice and collect all appropriate data. In the end, don’t forfeit your right to make the decision. It’s your life and it has to be your decision. 

🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ Want to Live Longer? Cut Down on Red Meat

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Red & Processed Meats are NOT Your BFF’s

A few palm-size servings (about 2½ oz) of beef, pork, or lamb now and then is no big deal, but eating more than 18 ounces of red meat per week ups your risk of colorectal cancer—the third most common type, according to a major report by the American Institute for Cancer Research. Colorectal cancer risk also rises by 42% with every 3½ oz serving of processed meat (such as hot dogs, bacon, and deli meats) eaten per day, the report determined.  Experts aren’t sure why red and processed meats are so harmful, but one of their suspects is the carcinogens that can form when meat is grilled, smoked, or cured—or when preservatives, such as nitrates, are added. “You can have an occasional hot dog at a baseball game, but just don’t make it a habit,” says Karen Collins, RD, a nutrition advisor at AICR.

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