Healthy Tips: Let’s Lower the Temperature

February 26, 2025 by Ray Calabrese

Make time and space to blow off steam. What do you do to decrease stress? Whether it’s meditation, journaling, walking, or something else, make a daily habit of doing something proactively to manage your stress. Source

Note: You know what happens when a tea pot begins to boil, it lets off steam. If there were no escape outlet for the steam, the tea point would eventually explode. We witness this happening in tragic human events across the globe. We can find a healthy way to lower the temperature reducing stress and at the same time provide ourselves with some health benefits. Walking, jogging, or any other physical activity is a good choice.

Green Mountain ~ A Poem by Li Po

February 25, 2025 by Ray Calabrese

Green Mountain

Li Po

You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain;
I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care.
As the peach-blossom flows down stream
and is gone into the unknown,
I have a world apart that is not among men.

Source

Alone Looking at the Mountain ~ A Poem by Li Po

February 15, 2025 by Ray Calabrese

Alone Looking at the Mountain

Li Po

All the birds have flown up and gone;
A lonely cloud floats leisurely by.
We never tire of looking at each other –
Only the mountain and I.

Source

It’s All There Waiting for You

February 13, 2025 by Ray Calabrese

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” ~ Marcus Aurelius

The Sun ~ A Poem by Mary Oliver

February 13, 2025 by Ray Calabrese

The Sun

Mary Oliver

Have you ever seen
anything
in your life
more wonderful

than the way the sun,
every evening,
relaxed and easy,
floats toward the horizon

and into the clouds or the hills,
or the rumpled sea,
and is gone–
and how it slides again

out of the blackness,
every morning,
on the other side of the world,
like a red flower

streaming upward on its heavenly oils,
say, on a morning in early summer,
at its perfect imperial distance–
and have you ever felt for anything
such wild love–
do you think there is anywhere, in any language,
a word billowing enough
for the pleasure

that fills you,
as the sun
reaches out,
as it warms you

as you stand there,
empty-handed–
or have you too
turned from this world–

or have you too
gone crazy
for power,
for things?

Source

Nature ~ A Poem by Emily Dickinson

February 12, 2025 by Ray Calabrese

Nature

Emily Dickinson

“Nature” is what we see—
The Hill—the Afternoon—
Squirrel—Eclipse— the Bumble bee—
Nay—Nature is Heaven—
Nature is what we hear—
The Bobolink—the Sea—
Thunder—the Cricket—
Nay—Nature is Harmony—
Nature is what we know—
Yet have no art to say—
So impotent Our Wisdom is
To her Simplicity.

Source

A Haiku by Basho

February 11, 2025 by Ray Calabrese

I am one
Who eats his breakfast,
Gazing at the morning-glories.

– Basho

Butterflies ~ A Poem by Haniel Long

February 10, 2025 by Ray Calabrese

Butterflies

Haniel Long

There will be butterflies,
There will be summer skies
And flowers upthrust,
When all that Caesar bids,
And all the pyramids
Are dust.

There will be gaudy wings
Over the bones of things,
And never grief:
Who says that summer skies,
Who says that butterflies,
Are brief?

Source

The Comet ~ A Poem by Albert Durant Watson

February 6, 2025 by Ray Calabrese

The Comet

Albert Durant Watson

SPECTRAL, mysterious, flame-like thing
Cleaving the western night,
Waking from chrysalis-dream to fling
Out of thy spirit’s long chastening
Far-flashing streams of light,

Tell us thy thought of the things that are;
How doth the morning sing?
What hast thou seen in the worlds afar?
Tell us thy dream, O thou silvery star,
Bird with the white-flame wing.

What though the glow of thy fading ray
Dim and elusive seem,
Constant thou art to the sun’s bright sway
Faithful and true in thy tireless way,
True in thy spectral gleam.

Rising anew from thine ancient pyre,
Vapour and dust thy frame,
Still art thou Psyche, the soul’s desire,
Wingless, save when from reefs of fire
Mounting in shaft of flame.

Source