"I keep HEALTHY by ... "

"I keep healthy by eating a rainbow of colours every day" (Marie Maher, 61, is retired and lives in Sheffield, South Yorkshire).

Tears ! . . .

LET your tears come.  Let them water your soul - Eileen Mayhew.

LETting down our guard, releasing the tension that keeps us taut, often invites our tears that soften us, melt our resistance, reveal our vulnerability, which reminds us that we are human.  So often we need reminding that we are human.

Perfectionism may be our bane, as it is for so many of us.  We've learned to push, push harder, and even harder, yet, not only ourselves but those around us.  We must be better, we think, and we tighten our hold on life.  We need to loosen our grip, if we will.  WHEN we loosen our grip, even on this day, this activity, this person, we get carried gently along and find that which we struggled to control, happening smoothly and naturally.  Life is a series of ironies.

We should not hide from our tears.  We can trust their need to be present.  Perhaps, they need to be present for someone else, as well as ourselves.  Tears encourage compassion; maybe our assignment in life, today, is to help someone else experience compassion.

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My tears will heal.  
And the wounded are everywhere.

K. Casey

~ It's a Party and You're Invited... ~

Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011

Subject: It's a party...

It's a Party and You're Invited...

DAY: "Cherish the Past" (learn from it).

TIME: "Adorn the Present" (Love it).

PLACE: "Construct the Future".

*** 'PONY' (alias "Lucky") Day ... !! *** (Comical ?)

A young Reporter was interviewing a "chap" (fellow) named Pony (alias "Lucky") Day. "Who's he"? You well may ask. He had just reached his 100th. Birthday! The eager Reporter asked him what he attributed to his extremely good health. "Well..", he thoughtfully said, "I have always worked hard and eaten moderately. Of course, nowadays, foods are genetically modified where I used to eat from scratch and just took it for granted that food would always stay the same. Pity". "Have you been confined to Bed any days"? (excuse the pun) the Reporter asked. "Of course", replied Pony, "but please don't put that in your Paper"!!! "I'm dayzed" (*excuse that pun), replied the Reporter. "Don't be", spoke proud Pony (he didn't understand what he just said).