Everybody wants happiness, and nobody wants pain, but you can’t have a rainbow without a little rain. ~ Zion Lee
Month: May 2024
Today’s Poem: Awake My Heart by Robert Seymour Bridges
Awake My Heart
Robert Seymour Bridges
Awake, my heart, to be loved, awake, awake!
The darkness silvers away, the morn doth break,
It leaps in the sky: unrisen lustres slake
The o’ertaken moon. Awake, O heart, awake!
She too that loveth awaketh and hopes for thee:
Her eyes already have sped the shades that flee,
Already they watch the path thy feet shall take:
Awake, O heart, to be loved, awake, awake!
And if thou tarry from her, – if this could be, –
She cometh herself, O heart, to be loved, to thee;
For thee would unashamed herself forsake:
Awake, to be loved, my heart, awake, awake!
Awake! The land is scattered with light, and see,
Uncanopied sleep is flying from field and tree;
And blossoming boughs of April in laughter shake:
Awake, O heart, to be loved, awake, awake!
Lo, all things wake and tarry and look for thee:
She looketh and saith, “O sun, now bring him to me.
Come, more adored, O adored, for his coming’s sake,
And awake, my heart, to be loved, awake, awake!”
Health Quiz – Test Your Health and Fitness Knowledge
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Today’s Thought: Discover the Magician in You
I have a professional magician friend. He’s very good. He’ll ask me to come to his house so he can practice one of his new tricks on me. Every once in a while he’ll show me how he made the “magic” happen. It’s clever. He builds his own tricks and sells them to magicians across the globe. Most of us are not magicians, but there are things we do that others might consider in the realm of magic. My mom, for example, could make the best tasting pasta fazool (Italian bean soup). She’d never give up the recipe. How she did it is a mystery. I had a colleague who could tell a story about going out for breakfast and eating a bagel and cream cheese and turn this story into page turner. What’s your magic? Surely you have something others can’t do; yet, it comes natural to you.
t’s Time to Exercise Your Brain – Take the Anagram Challenge
Is Your Brain Up to the Challenge? Unscramble today’s anagram. It’s time to exercise your brain!
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Inspiring Quote: It’s Time!
Don’t sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea. ~Rumi
Today’s Poem: Friendship by Robert Pollok
Friendship
Robert Pollok
Much beautiful, and excellent, and fair,
Was seen beneath the sun; but nought was seen
More beautiful, or excellent, or fair,
Than face of faithful friend,-fairest when seen
In darkest day. And many sounds were sweet
Most ravishing and pleasant to the ear;
But sweeter none than voice of faithful friend, —
Sweet always, sweetest heard in loudest storm
* * * * *
all are friends in heaven, all faithful friends
and many friendships, in the days of time
begin, are lasting here and growing still.
Health Quiz – Test Your Health and Fitness Knowledge
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Today’s Joke: Joe Sees His Dermatologist
Joe: “I went to my dermatologist with a suspicious looking mole.”
Pete: “What did your dermatologist say?”
Joe: “He said they all look that way and I should have left it in the garden.”
Today’s Joke: Joe and His GF Are Sharing Intimate Secrets. What Could Go Wrong?
Joe: “I told my girlfriend the truth. I said I was seeing a psychiatrist.”
Pete: “What did she say?”
Joe: “She said she was going to tell me the truth. She was seeing a dentist, physical trainer and a bartender.”
