Month: January 2024

Thinking Out Loud: Where It’s Happening

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“I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.” ~  Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

NOTE: Now is all we have. It’s where we love. It’s where we’re broken. It’s where we dance, sing, and cry. It’s where we succeed and fail. When we get to tomorrow, tomorrow will become our now. If we live in tomorrow we miss life because life is lived now. If we live in the past, we live in what was once and will never be again. Live now. Love now. Dance Now. Sing now. Cry now. Experience it all. Don’t let a single moment pass by.

Today’s Inspiring Photo: Reach for the Stars

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It’s Time to Exercise Your Brain – Take the Anagram Challenge 

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Today’s mind sharpening anagram is a two or three word phrase. Can you unscramble the anagram to discover the two or three word phrase? It’s time to exercise your brain! 

Today’s Anagram:    

QUIZ START

Today’s Inspiring Quote: Rise Each Time you Fall

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The key to life is resilience….We will always be knocked down. It’s the getting up that counts.

Dominique Browning

God’s Grace: A Poem by Sri Chinmoy

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God’s Grace

Sri Chinmoy

God’s Grace
Can make my mind beautiful
And my heart bountiful
In a twinkling.

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Heal Your Chapped Lips with These 5 Strategies

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Heal chapped lips during winter with the following five methods:

  1. Stay Hydrated: Keeping your body hydrated is crucial. Drink plenty of water throughout the day. Dehydration can cause or worsen chapped lips.
  2. Use a Humidifier: Indoor heating can dry out the air in your home, which in turn can dry out your lips. Using a humidifier adds moisture to the air, helping to prevent and heal chapped lips.
  3. Apply Lip Balm Regularly: Use a good quality lip balm or chapstick that contains ingredients like beeswax, petroleum, shea butter, or coconut oil. These ingredients help lock in moisture and protect your lips from the cold.
  4. Avoid Licking Your Lips: Saliva evaporates quickly, taking more moisture from your lips and making them even drier. Try to avoid licking your lips when they feel dry.
  5. Exfoliate Gently: Sometimes, gently exfoliating the lips can remove dry, flaky skin, allowing lip balms and moisturizers to penetrate better. You can use a soft toothbrush or a homemade sugar scrub (a mixture of sugar and honey or olive oil), but be gentle to avoid causing more damage.

Remember, if your lips are severely chapped or if they don’t improve with these methods, you might want to consult a dermatologist for further advice.

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Today’s Joke: Joe Asks Customer Service for Help

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Joe: “I ordered a deck of cards online a month ago and they haven’t arrived so I called customer service.”

Pete: “What did they say?”

Joe: “They said they were dealing with it.”

Episode 20: Tough Love and Grieving.

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In Episode 20 of my podcast, Journey from Grief to Healing, M uses to tough love to snap me out of my funk. She has me confront some tough truths about grieving. I know she is right. Her tough love proved to be the spark I needed. Maybe I turned a corner.
You can listen to Episode 20 on your favorite podcasting app. Or, you can click the following link to listen to it. All 20 episodes are available for download if you missed an episode.
Listen now: https://raycalabrese.podbean.com/e/episode-20-tough-love-and-grieving/?token=801fbb66d3db16c0fe550131c2d0587e

Thinking Out Loud: Live, Swim Upstream

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“Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.” ~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

NOTE: I have a talented friend who lives in fear. He had many opportunities to have a more prestigious job, he turned them down making one excuse after another. He has a basement stocked with supplies in case of emergencies. He doesn’t venture more than a hundred miles from his home unless a business requirement necessitates travel. He is a prisoner to his fears. Fear can do that to us. It makes us turn unreal things into catastrophes in our mind. I like to recall my childhood memory of going with my dad to the herring run and catching herring with my hand as they swam upstream to spawn. It’s a great metaphor for life, swim upstream. That’s were life waits. If the salmon and herring didn’t swim against the flow of the rivers they’d become extinct. Live, swim upstream.

Today’s Inspiring Photo: Good Things Are Coming Your Way

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