Joe: “I just got back from a pleasure trip.”
Pete: “Where’d you go.”
Joe: “I took my ex to the airport.”
Month: December 2021
🤗 A Better Life ~ Sing a Happy Song
Today’s a day made for singing. Doesn’t matter if you’re off key. Sing. Sing loud. You’lll find your spirits lifting. Music can do that for us. No sad songs. No angry songs. Make them happy, pick me up kind of songs.
🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ An Occasional Spurge Won’t Wreck Your Diet
“Did you splurge at the birthday party with a big piece of chocolate cake, driving your daily calorie total way above average? Don’t feel guilty, because you’re likely to compensate later, resulting in a negligible net gain, a study shows. It turns out our body’s feedback system doesn’t tally up calories in, calories out quite as precisely as some experts believe, says Kevin Hall, PhD, a physiologist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) who presented his findings at the Obesity Society meeting in San Diego. He says, ”On a day to day basis, you can vary your food intake by plus or minus 600 calories a day and still have a stable body weight as long as your long-term average [calorie intake] is not creeping up or down.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ A Writing Secret
“Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.”
~ Matthew Arnold
👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ Your Dream is Waiting Your Call
What dream are you chasing? Is it your dream? Or, have you inherited it? Dare to dream the dream that is waiting for your call deep within your spirit.
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ The Best Things in Life
The best things in life can never be kept;
They must be given away.
A Smile, a Kiss, and Love~ Robert Browning
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ How Do I Love Thee
How Do I Love Thee
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, — I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! — and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
