I hope this little email will uplift and encourage you to see the good things all around you. In this email:
Food for thought: Water under the bridge
Picture of the day: Happiness journal / Water Under the Bridge
Daily Funny: A Joke for the Boss
Daily Happiness: 80's music
Daily Quote about limitations
I hope this little email will uplift and encourage you to see the good things all around you.
Thought for the day
Water Under the Bridge
"A boy, long time ago, leaned against the railing of a bridge and watched the current of the river below. A log, a bit of driftwood, a chip floated past. Again the surface of the river was smooth. But always, as it had for a hundred, perhaps a thousand, perhaps a million years, the water slipped by, under the bridge. Sometimes the current went more swiftly, and again quite slowly. But always the river flowed on under the bridge.
Watching the river that day the boy made a discovery. It was not the discovery of a material thing, something he might put his hand upon. He could not even see it. He had discovered an idea. Quite suddenly, yet quietly, he knew that everything in his life would someday pass under the bridge and be gone, like water. And the boy came to like those words “under the bridge”. All his life thereafter the idea served him well and carried him through, although there were days and ways that were dark and not easy. Always, when he had made a mistake that couldn’t be helped, or lost something that would never come again, the boy, now a man, said, “It’s water under the bridge.” And he didn’t worry unduly about the mistakes after that and he certainly didn’t let them get him down - because it was “water under the bridge”. "
- N.V. Peale
Picture of the day
Write down the positive things in your day, and let them lift your spirits
Because of the thought for today, this picture was the only logical choice.
This little bridge is quite near where we live, and we often walk in the woods and cross the little stream using this bridge.
Perhaps you could write down the things floating in your river on the left hand side of the notebook, and then later on the right hand side what good came out of it?
We went for a drive around a nearby island, and listened to a radio station that only played music from the 80's. Gosh that was fun! And of course I was hollering along. So fun to remember all those songs, even though I had not heard them in years. For a while I did not think of the corona pandemia at all.
