Joe: “I’d rather be bitten by a vicious dog than deal with my mother-in-law?”
Pete: “Why?”
Joe: “A vicious dog eventually lets go.”
Month: November 2023
Thinking Out Loud: Persevere Through the Tough Times
Today’s Thinking Out Loud reflection is on Cervantes work, Don Quixote.
“Senor,” said Sancho on hearing this, “It is the part of brave hearts to be patient in adversity just as much as to be glad in prosperity. . . . Fortune is a drunken whimsical jade, and, what is more, blind, and therefore neither sees what she does, nor knows whom she casts down or whom she sets up.” Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
Note: We all have streaks of things going well and things falling apart. The wise learn to take to the good with the bad. They know that every storm will end. If they don’t quit and persevere they know life will once again turn around and the sun will shine on them. They are humble when it is going good and learners when it is going bad. Persevere during tough times, enjoy the good times.
Today’s Inspiring Photo: Pulling in the Same Direction
PULLING TOGETHER IN THE SAME DIRECTION – TEAMWORK WINS
Today’s Anagram – It’s Time to Exercise Your Brain
Today’s mind sharpening anagram is a two or three word phrase related to a health related topic. Can you unscramble the anagram to discover the two or three word phrase while exercising your brain?
Today’s Anagram:
Cast Out the False Limits and Soar
Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.
Michael Jordan
The Secret ~ A Poem by Ralph S. Cashman
The Secret
Ralph S. Cashman
I met God in the morning
When my day was at its best,
And his presence came like sunrise
Like a glory in my breast.
All day long the Presence lingered,
All day long he stayed with me,
And we sailed in perfect calmness
O’er a very troubled sea.
Other ships were blown and battered,
Other ships were sore distressed,
But the winds that seemed to drive them
Brought to us a peace and rest.
Then I thought of other mornings,
With a keen remorse of mind,
When I too had loosed the moorings,
With the Presence left behind.
So I think I know the secret,
Learned from many a troubled way:
You must seek him in the morning
If you want him through the day!
Potatoes and Weight Gain: They Might be a Problem
Potatoes seem to be a particular culprit for weight gain and diabetes:
A 2011 study by Mozaffarian et al. that tracked the diet and lifestyle habits of 120,000 men and women for up to 20 years looked at how small food-choice changes contributed to weight gain over time.
- People who increased their consumption of French fries and baked or mashed potatoes gained more weight over time—an extra 3.4 and 1.3 pounds every four years, respectively. [7]
- People who decreased their intake of these foods gained less weight, as did people who increased their intake of other vegetables.
A similar long-term study found that high potato and French fry intakes were linked to a greater risk of diabetes in women, and that replacing potatoes with whole grains could lower diabetes risk. [9]
Potatoes do contain important nutrients—vitamin C, potassium, and vitamin B6, to name a few. But the potato is not the only source of these nutrients, nor is it the best:
- Broccoli, for example, has nearly nine times as much vitamin C as a potato.
Today’s Joke: Joe’s Dog Has a Duck Problem
Joe: “Every time I walk my dog in the park the ducks try to bite him.”
Pete: “Have you figured out why?”
Joe: “My vet told me it was because my dog is a pure bread.”
Thinking Out Loud: Defending the Defenseless
Today’s Thinking Out Loud reflection is on Cervantes work, Don Quixote.
“Seeing what was going on, Don Quixote said in an angry vie, “Discourteous knight, it ill becomes you to assail on who cannot defend himself, mount your steed and take you land and I will you know that you are behaving as a coward.” Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
Note: Throughout our world, in our cities and towns, and in our neighborhoods, there are people too weak to defend themselves. In a scene from the movie Romero, a peasant woman stops Archbishop Romero on the street and says to him, “If you do not speak for us, who will?” In Ralph Ellison’s book, The Invisible Man, Ellison says, “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.” Who are the invisible people in your life that need defending?
