The moon is a flower without a stem,
The sky is luminous;
Eternity was made for them,
To-night for us.
Joe: “When I kiss a woman for the first time I always close my eyes.”
Pete: “What makes you do that?”
Joe: “If my eyes are open, more pepper spray gets in them.”
There are lots of things I’ll never understand. I’ve learned not to try to understand them, but to try to live with them. It’s not easy. I want to ask why, when I do all I hear is silence. It’s not meant to be understood by me at this time. Maybe, down the road a ways, I’ll understand. Until then, I have to live the mystery.
What if I asked for help when I got stuck on a difficult task? What’s difficult is different for each of us. What is difficult for one is a simple task for another. I have a friend who is a tech geek. I think I’m pretty savvy with technology, yet, when I get stuck, I ask him. He thinks about my problem for a second or two then walks me through a solution. It keeps me humble. Each of us has a strong set of skills. We also have areas where we need help. When we help each other over the difficult stretches, everything works out for the best.
What you put on your plate might affect what you see in the mirror. But a few tweaks to your dining habits can go a long way to keeping your skin youthful and your body healthy.
Go for a Mediterranean-style diet, Harlan says. Vegetables, fruits, whole grains, low-fat dairy, and lean protein can help fight inflammation and keep you looking your best, he says.
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”
Folks are always willing to give advice and much less likely to take advice. It’s wise to listen to what others have to say. It’s wiser to weigh it and make one’s own decision. We’re always better off when we make our decision based on our interests and made to make another happy with us.
I like veggies. I like fruit. I like unsalted nuts. I also like pizza and pasta. I try to maintain a sensible balance between what I want to eat and what I know I should eat for good health. Most areas of our life have contrasting forces. For example, there is a balance between work and play. There is a balance between using our digital media and stepping away from it. Our lives can be improved when we balance the opposing contrasts.
What if I decided the past can’t hurt or haunt me? Every human has scars, emotional or physical, from past hurts. Physical scars heal over, but the emotional pain often remains. The worse part of the pain occurs when we allow the past emotional and physical scars to continue to hurt us over and again. We allow the memories to haunt us like Dickens’ ghost from Christmas past. We may not be able to prevent these thoughts from randomly popping into our mind. We can make a decision not to join them. Let the thoughts stay as long as they want and tell them not to let the door hit them in the ass when they leave. Don’t give them power by reminiscing with them.
