Some days we feel as if we’re rocking back on our heels. Rock back up. What will happen, will happen. If you can fix it, fix it. If you can’t, wave at it and go on with life. Life will get better. Count on it.
Month: February 2022
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Don’t Listen the Doubters
“Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Know Your Genre
Know your genre. This goes hand in hand with knowing your audience. There are key elements that fans of certain genres will expect to find when they start reading your work. More often than not, genres can be divided further into subgenres that accommodate very specific motivations and plotlines. Keep it consistent. It is possible to write a successful cross-genre story, but you don’t want to mix it up too much. A supernatural romantic thriller, for example, could end up alienating fans of all three genres.
💡 Something to Think About
Wash away the biases, incorrect perceptions, and wrong thinking and we discover how much alike we are. We all experience times of sadness, despair, and sorrow, We all share moments of joy, laughter, love, and kindness. We are one, after all, all we have to do is look, listen, and marvel at each other.
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Your Laughter
Your Laughter
Pablo Neruda
Take bread away from me, if you wish,
take air away, but
do not take from me your laughter.Do not take away the rose,
the lance flower that you pluck,
the water that suddenly
bursts forth in joy,
the sudden wave
of silver born in you.My struggle is harsh and I come back
with eyes tired
at times from having seen
the unchanging earth,
but when your laughter enters
it rises to the sky seeking me
and it opens for me all
the doors of life.My love, in the darkest
hour your laughter
opens, and if suddenly
you see my blood staining
the stones of the street,
laugh, because your laughter
will be for my hands
like a fresh sword.Next to the sea in the autumn,
your laughter must raise
its foamy cascade,
and in the spring, love,
I want your laughter like
the flower I was waiting for,
the blue flower, the rose
of my echoing country.Laugh at the night,
at the day, at the moon,
laugh at the twisted
streets of the island,
laugh at this clumsy
boy who loves you,
but when I open
my eyes and close them,
when my steps go,
when my steps return,
deny me bread, air,
light, spring,
but never your laughter
for I would die.
🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ Potential Benefits of Wheat and Oat Bran
Wheat Bran & Oat Bran – 2 Winners
Wheat bran is particularly helpful for digestive issues, because the insoluble fiber can help bulk up your stools and limit your risk for constipation and other digestive issues. Oat bran, with it’s high soluble fiber content, may help you better control your blood sugar levels. A study published in the “European Journal of Clinical Nutrition” in September 2011 found that consuming 6 grams of soluble fiber per day from oat bran may help you lower your cholesterol and triglyceride levels and also limit the amount of energy you absorb from your food, potentially making it easier to maintain a healthy weight.
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Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: “I told my wife that I wanted to see the kids every other weekend.”
Pete: “What did she say?”
Joe: “She reminded me we were married and live together and I have to see them every day.”
👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ It Depends on You
How much love is inside today? It depends on how much you love. Fill today with love until it overflows.
💡 Something to Think About
I enjoy going to the rodeo. I watch the bronc or bull riders and am constantly amazed at their courage to hold on for the required time – eight seconds. Eight seconds and the ride is completed. Eight seconds is a great metaphor for life’s challenges. We don’t have to hang on forever, just long enough to ride it out. Don’t let the day’s challenges overwhelm you, hang on for eight seconds.
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Be Yourself, Nobody Else
“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.”
~ E. E. Cummings
