Personal freedom is a precious human right. How we balance our personal freedom with our collective responsibility to each other shapes the quality of our lives.
Day: April 23, 2021
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ What Is Your Motivation for Writing?
“When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.” ~ … Continue reading ✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ What Is Your Motivation for Writing?
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Laughing Blue Steel
Laughing Blue Steel Carl Sandburg TWO fishes swimming in the sea, Two birds flying in the air, Two chisels on an anvil—maybe. Beaten, hammered, laughing blue steel to each other—maybe. Sure I would rather be a chisel with you than a fish. Sure I would rather be a chisel with you than a bird. Take … Continue reading 🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Laughing Blue Steel
🍎 Today’s Health Question ~ What Happens When You Give Up Sugar?
Three Things That Will Happen When You Give Up Sugar 1, You'll sleep when you're supposed to. The crash from a sugar high leaves you with mid-day sluggishness. It also triggers the release of the hormone cortisol, which interferes with slumber. Giving up added sugar makes one more awake and alert during the day, and … Continue reading 🍎 Today’s Health Question ~ What Happens When You Give Up Sugar?
🤗 A Better Life ~ Do You Dare Discuss the Undiscussable?
Here's a challenge for you, if you dare to take it. Have a conversation with the person closest to you and name the things that each of you consider undiscussable in your relationship. You'll touch some hot buttons. If you can set aside the emotions and talk about why they are undiscussable, your relationship may … Continue reading 🤗 A Better Life ~ Do You Dare Discuss the Undiscussable?
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Discover Your Own Story
"Storytelling is at the heart of life... In finding our own story, we assemble all the parts of ourselves. Whatever kind of mess we have made of it, we can somehow see the totality of who we are and recognize how our blunderings are related. We can own what we did and value who we … Continue reading ✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Discover Your Own Story
👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ It’s An Easy Choice
You can worry about thing you can't change or do anything about. Or, you can spend time doing something about the things you can change. One takes effort and work. The other takes a lazy mind.
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Go On, Sing Your Song!
"Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do." ~ Cole Porter Source
Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: "I met a girl on a dating site. I was worried she wouldn't look as good in person." Pete: "Did she look like her online photo?" Joe: "No he didn't."