Darkness can lead to light
when you find what you love
or love what you find
Love isn’t always
at first sight
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Pawsitively Tuesday – Nuts to you
Here’s the good news
Eat nuts for your health
Pecans, walnuts, cashews
macadamias, if you choose
Just remember please
Peanuts are not nuts
They’re legumes, just like peas
no ifs, ands or buts
Legume by Peggy
The analysis of tree nut consumption included 826 patients. Previous studies showed positive associations between regular consumption of nuts reduction in cardiovascular disease and cancer, as well as a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and insulin resistance.*
The results showed that patients who consumed two or more 1-oz servings of nuts weekly had a 42% lower risk of cancer recurrence and a 57% lower risk of death from any cause during the follow-up period.
“The associations were limited to tree-nut intake and were not significant for consumption of peanuts or peanut butter,” said Fadelu. “The biologic mechanism is unknown but is likely related to the effect of nuts on insulin resistance.”
*Temidayo Fadelu, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
Pawsitively Tuesday-time flies
“Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring
Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To flutter–and the Bird is on the Wing”
― Omar Khayyám, The Ruba’iyat of Omar Khayyam
Hallowed Halloween
Hocus Pocus
Let’s all focus
No room for mean
on Halloween
Meowie Fly’n High by Peggy
Let love fly high
and fill the sky
Pawsitively Tuesday – Twirl, whirl & swirl
Dance when everyone’s watching
Twirl, whirl and swirl
whether you’re a boy or a girl
Sing when everyone’s listening
Warble, howl and trill
Whoever you are where ever you go
Let everyone know
being alive is a thrill
Save
Pawsitvely Tuesday
What the World Needs Now
The earth, caught in a ray of sun-light, taken from Voyager as it passes from our solar system into deep space.
A hug, an embrace
as we hurtle through space
on this tiny blue dot
The whole human race
Thanks Lyn!!!!
Pawsitively Tuesday – Your loves or likes
Do what you love
or at least what you like
fishing is good
as is riding a bike
If you never have fun
All the should, could, woulds
your life they will run
Pawsitively Tuesday – All God’s Creatures
If cats and pups can cozy up
Why oh why can’t we
lie down with our “enemy”?
“Do not exalt yourselves above others, but consider all as your equals, recognizing them as the servants of one God.” Bahai World Faith, Abdu’l-Baha
“If we go to the fundamental level, we are the same human being. … Seven billion human beings are the same human being.” Dalai Lama
1 Corinthians 1:10
“I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.”
Thanks Dr. Carolyn M.!
Pawsitively Tuesday – Frankly Freddie: Meowie, Meowy, & Me
Dear Human-beings and other creatures,
Alas and alack
MORE cats are back
and I’m last in the pack
If it weren’t for their claws
I’d give them a wack*
Peggy & judy are undoubtedly trying to appease me (since they didn’t name this blog FREDDIE or EVEN dedicate it to me) by giving me guest posting privileges and as such I’ve been granted the dubious task of introducing Meowie and her body-double.
Meowie
Meowie gets around (not in a salacious sense). She’s allowed to travel. However, in an effort to thwart the cataparazzi she often sends a body-double out in public.
Body Double Meowy: She’s had plastic surgery to enhance her looks. Judy Clemmer, sewing-surgeon-to-the-stars gave her a nose job and coiffed her coat to make her look fluffy. I suspect Judy C. used both Rogaine and hair extensions.
Body Double Meowy
If you spot Meowie’s body double on the prowl or sight-seeing let me know.
*I wouldn’t give anyone a wack, I’m a pacifist, but it was the only thing that rhymed with pack
Frankly,
Freddie Parker Westerfield, SE, SC
Senior Editor and Special Contributor
Pawsitively Tuesday – Buried Alive
When under ground
and no one’s around
it’s very dark before the dawn
or perhaps it’s dawn before the dark?
It’s sometimes hard to tell
So make sure you’re planted
at just the right depth
and not in some deep well
Pawsitively Tuesday – Love Blooms
For this I pray
you’ll give love away
Like a beautiful rose
love blooms and grows
Inhale the fragrance airborne
But first . . . strip off the thorn
Pawsitivley Tuesday – Opportunity Missed
The Fate of young ladies who “demurred”
with Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg
There once was a Miss
who declined a kiss
fearing the poor lad
would make her look bad
if the news leaked
about her and this geek.
There’s no mystery
The rest is history
This fearful honey
is out of the money
Your Microbiome is Invisibly Spewing YOU onto Others!
They call us “home”
our microbiome.
Our body spews
a cloud no one can see
Bacteria, viruses, fungi
intermingling you and me
Releasing microbes in the air
from head to toe where ever we go
Because they’re here to stay
Don’t waste your money
on bug spray
If you don’t believe me read: wherever-you-go-your-personal-cloud-of-microbes-follows
An excerpt to perk your interest:
“Each of us carries around millions of microorganisms – including bacteria, fungi and viruses — on the inner and outer surfaces of our bodies. Most of them aren’t dangerous. In fact, growing evidence indicates that they help us in lots of ways. Scientists call this collection of organisms our microbiome.”
‘”A lot of the recent work on the human microbiome has revealed that we’re kind of spilling our microbial companions all over our houses and our offices and the people around us,” Meadow says.”
“Meadow says the findings raise a number of possibilities, including, maybe, one day being able to identify a criminal by analyzing the microbial cloud he or she leaves behind at the scene.”
“We know that if you live with people, and even if you just work with people, your microbial communities come to resemble theirs over time,“ Knight says. “And in the past we used to think that was due to touch. It may be just that you’re releasing microbes into the air and some of those microbes are colonizing the people you’re with.”
The Pit In Your Stomach is Actually Your Second Brain
Pawsitively Tuesday – Throw it Around
Throw kindness around like confetti
Sprinkle it slow, sprinkle it steady
Let it fall from the air
stick in the hair
get caught on the lips
sit on by hips
Throw kindness around without care
Show there’s more than enough to spare
Author Unknown
Pawsitively Tuesday – Succeed OR Fail
In my opinion, one of the most “damaging” things we can tell our children, or ourselves for that matter, is that if we set our mind to it and have the perseverance we can do anything, accomplish anything, be anything. WRONG.
No matter how much I may want to be a nuclear physicist my brain simply will not grasp the finer, much less coarser, points of physics or math. No matter how much I might want to be a sumo wrestler, my body, dexterity and athletic ability forbids it.
So if I were going to talk to The Cat in the Hat I would tell him to change what he preaches to:
You have brains in your head
You have feet in your shoes
Try things, succeed OR fail,
You’ve got nothing to lose.
(jw)
Pawsitively Tuesday – Freddie’s Forewarning
You can’t be vain
dancing in the rain
for it’s a sure bet
your paws’ll get wet
your fur will matt
and you’ll looked like
a drowned cat
Pawsitively Tuesday — Olde Ode
Sometimes I think,
she says with a wink,
I’m stupid and old
if the truth be told.
Cuz it’s hard to remember
the last time I was young,
she says cheek in tongue
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Pawsitively Tuesday – riding feelings
Feelings come and go like waves of the ocean
Choose which ones to ride to shore
If you wipe out
just get back on board
and surf some more.
Surf ‘n Such by Peggy
