The more gnarled and wrinkled a tree is, the more we love it. And yet, we detest those same things in ourselves? Why do we fear wrinkles so much?
Whatever comes at me today, at least I’m not paddling a canoe with all my worldly goods and a two-year-old.
Why tell a child that crossing lines isn’t always easy? Why burden them with the idea that some lines are best left uncrossed, and it’s hard to figure out which ones. Better to send them out into the world excited to obliterate the many lines that need to be crossed.
A message sent to me, and you, from 1874 to the present.
Every day I clear small obstacles in my path. I must notice them and take extra measures to deal with them, but I manage, no problem. Am I allowing some bigger obstacle to block my path? How can I go around?
You are a woman after my own heart. I eat chocolate almost every day, sometimes a bite or two after breakfast. I enjoy the 70% cacao type, which I tell myself is more healthy than other kinds.
Who knew today is National Chocolate Day? I’m IN!
Thanks for the appetizing post, Arlene. 🙂
It is true – there are health benefits from dark chocolate. If Harvard says so, it must be true. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/food-features/dark-chocolate/
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I didn’t know this was such an auspicious day! Not a big fan of sweets, but a little bit of chocolate every so often is nice. Thanks for the excuse for eating some today.
Same here – I cut back on sugar and other foods that turn quickly into sugar years ago. In most cases sweet doesn’t taste good to me anymore. I make an exception for chocolate, but I think it’s the melltiness of it that appeals more than the sweet. The melting away on the tongue is soothing. Enjoy whatever chocolate you choose!
I was just about to have a chocolate ice cream cone….my latest summer craze. I found a brand of ice cream (Shaws) which is just like gelato – not too sweet and lots of chocolate flavor.
Oooh, sounds delicious. I will look for that!