I love spring. I always have. It’s the season of new life, new dreams, and hope. Spring returns next month. I’ve already seen signs pointing toward an early spring. Robins have appeared. A red bud tree in the neighborhood is starting to show signs of new life. Yes, winter is still hanging on, but it won’t be for long.
Two is always better than one.
Having coffee with the special person in your life provides a chance to speak with each other, capture each other’s smile, and bathe in the love that comes from their eyes.
“Things happen along the way in our path. Instead of looking at it as a wall that’s being put up in front of us, look at it as as opportunity to scale new heights and to climb that wall – to see and do things you didn’t think you were capable of (Robin Roberts).”
Each of us faces challenges. They wait for us around the next corner. The attitude we take to our challenges makes all the difference in determining the success we’ll have when we face them. If we see it as an opportunity and learning experience we have a chance to succeed and grow. Whatever challenge you’re facing, you’re stronger, tougher, and wiser than the challenge.
Joe: “I don’t understand why my girlfriend got upset with me when I complimented her,”
Pete: “What did you say?”
Joe: “I told her that her mustache was coming in great.”
“Don’t let your alarm clock, be the only reason you wake up.”
To The Thawing Wind
Robert Frost
Come with rain, O loud Southwester!
Bring the singer, bring the nester;
Give the buried flower a dream;
Make the settled snow-bank steam;
Find the brown beneath the white;
But whate’er you do to-night,
Bathe my window, make it flow,
Melt it as the ice will go;
Melt the glass and leave the sticks
Like a hermit’s crucifix;
Burst into my narrow stall;
Swing the picture on the wall;
Run the rattling pages o’er;
Scatter poems on the floor;
Turn the poet out of door.
Small acts of kindness can have enormous power for both the person being kind and the recipient, whether that’s a stranger or someone in the same family. Many studies have found that kindness, compassion and giving are associated with:
Research also shows that the happiness people get from giving to others creates a ‘positive feedback loop’. The more you give, the more positive you feel. This, in turn, fuels greater happiness.
People who witness or benefit from someone’s kindness and compassion are also more likely to be kind themselves.
When you’re battling constipation and struggling to get things moving, one of the best solutions can be to literally get moving. A research review published in the Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterologyfound that exercise can improve symptoms of constipation. Studies have even linked regular exercise to significant relief from irritable bowel syndrome symptoms, including constipation. . . . So how does it work? Regular exercise reduces the amount of time it takes for food to move through the gastrointestinal tract. This reduced transit time means that the body has less opportunity to absorb water content from the stool during the digestive process.
Or are you considering going vegetarian but want some protein options beyond plants. Consider the pescatarian diet. This plan — more like a lifestyle — is vegetarian with one key difference: You also eat fish and seafood. . . . Eliminating meat and poultry from your diet and focusing on plants and seafood can be a healthy switch. Benefits of a pescatarian diet can include:
Don’t be discouraged. Your dream may seem far away, but it’s just beyond the cloud cover waiting for you. Keep climbing, don’t quit,
it’s within your grasp.
