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I’m just gonna leave this here ❤️

hope is often
so much quieter
than my fear

hope is the whisper
between screams

hope is the nearly inaudible
sound of your tears drying
on the rose of your cheek

hope is the hushed wind passing
through a tall Wyoming pine

hope is the noise of you
softly exhaling while
looking for God in the mirror

hope is the sound of stars winking
at us from across the cosmos

hope is the babbling river
hope is the snoring baby
hope is the thumping heartbeat

hope is the lightly
beeping hospital monitor

hope is the sound
of butterfly wings
moving in the spring

hope is the noise ice
makes as it melts on a lake

hope is the gentle scratching of
a flower as it claws its way
out of the earth to sunbathe

hope is never loud
hope is never fussy
hope is never announced

- in fact, you might miss hope’s
arrival if your not listening for it

hope is more piano
than it is saxophone

hope is humble
hope is stealthy
hope doesn’t wear a name tag

hope is so often so silent

but that what 
makes hope so
powerful

because it can
surprise us at a moments notice

hope is always present
it’s the beat between musics notes
it’s the lips smack before the kiss
it’s the deep breath before the eulogy

hope is the quiet voice of God
that is endlessly begging us to
not surrender to the crawling shadows

and the voice is always
saying the same thing:

“Hold on, my love, hold on, my love.”

if you give it a moment of silence
you will find that hope is a real
chatter box

it won’t stop talking to you
if you let it get started

hope is everywhere
even in places where
you won’t expect to find it

it’s in your blood
it’s in your wrinkles
it’s in your grief

hope is relentless
amid the noise of
this clanging world

just listen

I swear,
my love,

if you just listen
to the noiseless hope
that surrounds you

I swear

you’ll never give up again

(John Roedel)

The following video is very educational about sugar. It is particularly important during covid as eating sugar compromises the immune system.
Keeping the immune system strong is so very important of course, and one of the single most important things you can do to ward off unwanted flus and viruses. Through a healthy diet, exercise and supplementation of C, D3, extra zinc and probiotics are helpful in keeping the immune system in order.
Managing stress through deep breathing techniques such as the 4-8-8 method is also important. Inhale for a slow count of 4, exhale for a count of 8 and hold for a count of 8. Doing this periodically throughout those stressful moments helps to activate the parasympathetic response slowing down the stress response.
More about this later.

VIDEO: Sugar: The Bitter Truth Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. Recorded on 05/26/2009.

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