It’s easy to see the darkness in others and condemn them. It’s more difficult to see the darkness in ourselves. Not to worry, it’s there. When we see the darkness in ourselves, we can more easily forgive ourselves and others.
Month: April 2022
🤗 A Better Life ~ Make Your Community a Happier Place
Be the first to offer a smile, thank you, excuse me, good morning or good afternoon greeting to all who pass your way today. You’ll be making your community a happier place.
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ It’s All Around Us
“Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.”
~ Jesse Owens
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Creating a Writing Space
Cooks know there’s something called a mise en place: You read the recipe, if there is one, and assemble your tools and ingredients. It’s another way of saying that the cooking begins before you begin cooking.
The same thing is true for writing. The writer’s mise en place is in fact a place. Do you have a place where you can think, where you can dream and explore? A private office is wonderful, but it isn’t essential. I’ve written several books on various dining room tables. . . . Your writer’s mise en place will help you settle into your creative mind, reduce outside distractions, and signal to your subconscious that you’re about to begin. Instead of avoiding all the heavy thinking and struggling that you might be putting off, you can let the physical world gently lead you into the story.
Starting a Healthy Eating Habit
Focus on a Mediterranean-style diet of eating for optimum heart health. The Mediterranean diet is abundant in fruits and vegetables, grains, fish, extra virgin olive oil, nuts, and seeds. Starting off with eating more meatless meals will definitely get you closer to heart health. Incorporating beans, legumes, any kind of nuts and seeds, and meatless products like tofu, tempeh, if you want to get adventurous into your diet a little more regularly. I generally say start with one meatless meal a week, replacing a meal of meat, ideally red meat, with a meatless meal. ~ Julia Zumpano, Registered Dietitian
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Why Do I Love You, Sir?
Why Do I Love You, Sir
Emily Dickinson
“Why do I love” You, Sir?
Because —
The Wind does not require the Grass
To answer — Wherefore when He pass
She cannot keep Her place.
Because He knows — and
Do not You —
And We know not —
Enough for Us
The Wisdom it be so —
The Lightning — never asked an Eye
Wherefore it shut — when He was by —
Because He knows it cannot speak —
And reasons not contained —
— Of Talk —
There be — preferred by Daintier Folk —
The Sunrise — Sire — compelleth Me —
Because He’s Sunrise — and I see —
Therefore — Then —
I love Thee —
👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ You are Unique
You are unique. You are a one and only. Be yourself. Don’t try to be someone else. You are you and that is special.
💡 Something to Think About
Sending angry texts or emails doesn’t work. They may even make a difficult situation worse. It’s hard to discuss difficult situations face-to-face. If a solution is important, people have to get together and iron out difficulties. It’s true at all levels of human activity.
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ you being in love
you being in love
e. e. cummings
you being in love
will tell who softly asks in love,
am i separated from your body smile brain hands merely
to become the jumping puppets of a dream? oh i mean:
entirely having in my careful how
careful arms created this at length
inexcusable, this inexplicable pleasure-you go from several
persons: believe me that strangers arrive
when i have kissed you into a memory
slowly, oh seriously
-that since and if you disappear
solemnly
myselves
ask “life, the question how do i drink dream smile
and how do i prefer this face to another and
why do i weep eat sleep-what does the whole intend”
they wonder. oh and they cry “to be, being, that i am alive
this absurd fraction in its lowest terms
with everything cancelled
but shadows
-what does it all come down to? love? Love
if you like and i like,for the reason that i
hate people and lean out of this window is love,love
and the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love and the reason
that i do not fall into this street is love.”
Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: “My psychiatrist told me me I have acute paranoia.”
Pete: “What did you say?”
Joe: “I told the psychiatrist I want to be cured not admired.”
