Today tear down the personal defenses preventing you from loving those closest to you. Toss away resentments, anger, and grudges. They do no one any good. Build bridges to those you love. One day you’ll be waiting and seeing those you love walking toward you over the bridge you built.
Month: September 2022
Something to Think About
Society is better when people get involved. It doesn’t matter what side they’re on, it’s their involvement that matters because it shows that they care. In a democratic society, the different perspectives are resolved peacefully through voting. What is counterproductive is indifference, not caring, and apathetic attitudes toward life. Whatever your perspectives, get involved, work to make a difference. Society will become better because you chose to get involved.
Today’s Health Tip ~ Foods that Prevent Leg Cramps
Muscle cramps happen when your muscles tense up and you can’t relax them. While painful, usually you can treat them yourself. Exercise, dehydration, and menstruation are common causes. One way to stop cramps is to stretch or massage your muscles and to eat enough of these key nutrients: potassium, sodium, calcium, and magnesium
The following foods will help keep leg cramps:
- bananas.
- Sweet potato
- Avocado
- Milk
- Pickle juice
- Dark leafy grreens’
- Seeds and nuts
Today’s Smile
Joe: “My girlfriend was depressed, I asked her if she was suicidal.”
Pete: “What did she say?”
Joe: “She said, ‘If I was gonna kill myself, I’d climb your ego and jump to your IQ.'”
Today’s Inspiration ~ Letting Go
“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.”
Today’s Poem ~ To Memory
To Memory
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Strange Power, I know not what thou art,
Murderer or mistress of my heart.
I know I’d rather meet the blow
Of my most unrelenting foe
Than live—as now I live—to be
Slain twenty times a day by thee.
Murderer or mistress of my heart.
I know I’d rather meet the blow
Of my most unrelenting foe
Than live—as now I live—to be
Slain twenty times a day by thee.
Yet, when I would command thee hence,
Thou mockest at the vain pretence,
Murmuring in mine ear a song
Once loved, alas! forgotten long;
And on my brow I feel a kiss
That I would rather die than miss.
Today’s Inspiration ~ Now’s the Time – Seize It
“Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.”
Today’s Good Word ~ Rain
I live in drought stricken Texas. We need rain. It will come. When it comes to Texas, it will come Texas style. We’ll get nearly a year’s average rainfall in a day or two. When the soaking rain comes, I’ll go out and dance in it. I’ll let it soak me through to the skin. Rain provides me with the metaphoric feeling of being cleansed of all the things weighing on my mind.
Today’s Good Word ~ Two
Two represents the number 2. I like the number 2.
It takes two people to dance.
It takes two people to fall in love.
It takes two people to make love.
It takes two people to hold each other in times of struggle.
It takes two people to celebrate joyful moments.
It takes two people to have meaningful conversations.
Yes, I like 2
Today’s Poem ~ I Met a Seer
I met a seer
Stephen Crane
I met a seer.
He held in his hands
The book of wisdom.
“Sir,” I addressed him,
“Let me read.”
“Child — ” he began.
“Sir,” I said,
“Think not that I am a child,
For already I know much
Of that which you hold.
Aye, much.”
He held in his hands
The book of wisdom.
“Sir,” I addressed him,
“Let me read.”
“Child — ” he began.
“Sir,” I said,
“Think not that I am a child,
For already I know much
Of that which you hold.
Aye, much.”
He smiled.
Then he opened the book
And held it before me. —
Strange that I should have grown so suddenly blind.
