1. My favorite candy bar…
The wellness lifestyle includes snacks and sweets. Yeeehaaaa! The key is choosing snacks and sweets that use high quality ingredients, avoid artificial junk, and contain healthful nutrients. So… I want to share my favorite chocolate candy bar with you… Hu Chocolate Bar. The Hu is short for “human,” and their tag line is “Get back to human.” These bars have no dairy, no GMO’s, no emulsifiers, no soy lecithin, no gluten, no refined sugar, no cane sugar, and no sugar alcohols. Oh… and they are DELICIOUS! One down side… they are expensive. I was so bummed to see them in the local Heinen’s grocery store for $7 each. Yikes! So I called the company and am now carrying them in our office and only charging $5.50 each. Still pricey, but give them a try, and I think you’ll agree they are worth it. Here is a link to Hu’s story.
2. Song I’m listening to…
Years ago, I started listening to country music. My dad would give me a hard time, joking about how I could like music with song titles like “She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy,” and with lyrics like “I want to check you for ticks.” I listen to a lot of different music, but I do like country. My latest favorite song is Living, by Dierks Bentley. I’ll copy the lyrics below, but it’s so much better with the music. My favorite line… “Got a heart full of grateful, for all you’ve been given.”
This mornin’ I got up at 6:01
I walked out and saw the rising sun
And I drank it in like whiskey
I saw a tree I’ve seen a thousand times
A bird on a branch and I watched it fly away in the wind
And it hit me
It’s a beautiful world sometimes I don’t see so clear
Some days you just breath in
Just try to break even
Sometimes your heart’s poundin’ out of your chest
Sometimes it’s just beatin’
Some days you just forget
What all you’ve been given
Some days you just get by
And some days you’re just alive
Some days you’re livin’
Some days you’re livin’
I went back in and fired the coffee up
She walked in the kitchen like she always does
In my t-shirt and it killed me
And I kissed her like it was the first time
She laughed and looked at me like I’d lost my mind
I said “baby, I love you, can’t live without you, I know I don’t say it enough”
Some days you just breath in
Just try to break even
Sometimes your heart’s poundin’ out of your chest
Sometimes it’s just beatin’
Some days you just forget
What all you’ve been given
Some days you just get by
And some days you’re just alive
Some days you’re livin’
Like you never die
Blue’s a little bluer up in the sky
You’re high’s a little high
You feel that fire you’ve been missing
Some days you’re living
It’a beautiful world sometimes I don’t see so clear
Some days you start singin’
And you don’t need a reason
Sometimes the world’s just right
Your clear eyes ain’t even blinkin’
Got a heart full of grateful
For all you’ve been given
Some days you just get by
Yeah some days you’re just alive
Some days you’re livin’
Some days you’re livin’ yeah yeah
Livin’ like you’ll never die
Blue’s a little bluer up in the sky
You’re high’s a little high
You feel that fire you’ve been missin’
Some days you’re living
Some days you’re living
Source: LyricFind
3. Disturbing article…
This is not new (published in 2018), but highlights the reason we NEED to be concerned about so many people taking so many pharmaceutical drugs. They are ending up in wastewater treatment plants, then in our rivers, streams, lakes and oceans… and even our drinking water! This article, titled “Traces of Opioids Found in Seattle-Area Mussels,” notes how opioids, along with other pharmaceutical drugs, such as antibiotics, anti-depressants, chemotherapy drugs, and heart medications are showing up in the tissues of mussels. This is CRAZY! The idea that more and better medications is the answer to our healthcare crisis is a joke. It has not been, nor will ever be, the answer. This article should cause serious alarm!