We can’t tell what the future holds. The future may be great or filled with problems. Whatever we face, if we lend each other a hand and encourage each other to keep on going it will all turn out okay.
Month: January 2022
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Don’t Wait, Chase Your Dreams
“If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they’re gone.” ~ Willie Nelson
👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ Learn from Every Mistake
Mistakes only stay mistakes if we refuse to learn from them. When we discover the lessons in our mistakes and act on the lessons, our mistakes become our teachers.
🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ Making a Grocery Shopping List is a Healthy Strategy
Use a List When You Shop
There are two important strategies to employ when you go grocery shopping: Make your shopping list ahead of time and don’t go to the store hungry.
Not knowing exactly what you need makes room for impulse buying, while hunger can cause you to toss even more low nutrient foods into your shopping cart.
That’s why the best strategy is to plan ahead and write down what you need beforehand. By doing this and sticking to your list, you’ll not only buy healthier items to keep around the house, but you’ll also save money.
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Note: I use an app on my iPhone to make my list. It keeps me focused and cuts down the time spent at the supermarket.
Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: “There’s a great new machine at my gym. I got sick after using it for an hour.”
Pete: “Will you use it again?”
Joe: “Probably, it’s got everything, espressos, lattes, chips, chocolates.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ How a Character is Defined
“A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.” ~ Arthur Miller
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Come With Me, I Said, And No One Knew
Come With Me, I Said, And No One Knew (VII)
Pablo Neruda
Come with me, I said, and no one knew
where, or how my pain throbbed,
no carnations or barcaroles for me,
only a wound that love had opened.
where, or how my pain throbbed,
no carnations or barcaroles for me,
only a wound that love had opened.
I said it again: Come with me, as if I were dying,
and no one saw the moon that bled in my mouth
or the blood that rose into the silence.
O Love, now we can forget the star that has such thorns!
That is why when I heard your voice repeat
Come with me, it was as if you had let loose
the grief, the love, the fury of a cork-trapped wine
the geysers flooding from deep in its vault:
in my mouth I felt the taste of fire again,
of blood and carnations, of rock and scald.
💡 Something to Think About
HAPPY NEW YEAR
MY NEW YEAR’S WISHES FOR YOU
- May you enjoy good health throughout the year.
- May love knock at your door every day.
- May opportunities flow to you in abundance.
- May you and those you love form tighter bonds and see each other’s wonderful gifts.
- May your dreams come into being.
- May all the good things life has to offer flow abundantly to you and those you love.
