Month: February 2023

Positive Thought of the Day ~ Time to Take a Real Walk

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“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

I see all the time, folks walking, talking on their smart phones, ear pods blaring in their ears. They may be walking, but they’re losing the benefits of the walk. They may as well be on a treadmill. When we walk as Emerson suggests we open ourselves to a vast new experience. Try it. You’ll come back refreshed and renewed.

Positive Thought of the Day ~The Journey is the Meaning

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“There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer

No matter where your journey takes you, it is your journey. It may not be the journey you intended, it may not be the journey you want. It is the journey you have. In your journey, you will discover your purpose in life. Don’t miss it. 

Inspiring Quotation for Today ~ Don’t Fear the Storm

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“If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.”

~ Corrie Ten Boom

Poem of the Day ~ Your Hands

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Your Hands

Angelina Weld Grimke 

I love your hands:
They are big hands, firm hands, gentle hands;
Hair grows on the back near the wrist . . . .
I have seen the nails broken and stained
From hard work.
And yet, when you touch me,
I grow small . . . . . . . and quiet . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . And happy . . . . . . . .
If I might only grow small enough
To curl up into the hollow of your palm,
Your left palm,
Curl up, lie close and cling,
So that I might know myself always there,
. . . . . . . Even if you forgot.

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Feeling Good ~ A Sense of Awe & Happiness

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Awe is a powerful — even awesome, you might say — human emotion. And a handful of recent studies have found a link between experiencing a sense of awe — that feeling you get when you look up at a starry sky or out across a wide open valley — with feeling less stressed and more satisfied.

People who’ve recently had an awe-inspiring experience are also more likely to say they feel more curious about the world around them and to act more generously toward others.

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Joke of the Day

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Joe: “I keep taking my girlfriend everywhere.”

Pete: “That’s nice, Joe.”

Joe: “Problem is she keeps finding her way back.”

Health Tip of the Day ~ Beating Muscle Cramps

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Eat to Beat Muscle 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.

  1. Bananas ~ You probably know that bananas are a good source of potassium. But they’ll also give you magnesium and calcium. That’s three out of four nutrients you need to ease muscle cramps tucked under that yellow peel.
  2. Sweet potatoes ~ Sweet potatoes give you potassium, calcium, and magnesium. Sweet potatoes get the win because they have about six times as much calcium as bananas.
  3. Avocados ~ One creamy, green berry (yes, it’s really a berry!) has about 975 milligrams of potassium, twice as much as a sweet potato or banana.
  4. Lentils and beans ~ Legumes like beans and lentils are packed with magnesium. One cup of cooked lentils has about 71 milligrams of magnesium, and a cup of cooked black beans has almost double that with 120 milligrams.
  5. Melons ~ These fruits have it all: loads of potassium, a good amount of magnesium and calcium, a little sodium, and a lot of water. Sodium and water are key because as you exercise, your body flushes sodium out with your sweat.
  6. Dark leafy greens ~ They’re rich in calcium and magnesium. So adding kale, spinach, or broccoli to your plate may help prevent muscle cramps.

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Never Doubt It – Life Always Wins

Today’s Joke

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Joe: “I discouraged my girlfriend from becoming an archaeologist.”

Pete: “Why’s that, Joe?”

Joe: “I didn’t want her life to end up in ruins.”

Today’s Poem ~ Unending Love

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Unending Love

Tagore

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, its age-old pain,
Its ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time:
You become an image of what is remembered forever.

You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played alongside millions of lovers, shared in the same
Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell-
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.

Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
The love of all man’s days both past and forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours –
And the songs of every poet past and forever.

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