Feed Your Good Dog

Positive Thoughts | Positive Actions | Positive Results

Rose Caplan

Mindfulness – Practice Makes Perfect

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mindfullness at Blue Ridge Mountains in Asheville NC2 Sources to help you practice mindfulness.

“Before you plunge into your day’s work, put yourself in tune with your highest ideals, think of the things which you would like to have come true during the day. Hold persistently in your mind the thoughts, hopes, the expectations, which are in keeping with your aspirations and your ambition. Think only of those things which will help you to be the man or the woman you long to be, to do the things you are ambitious to do.

If you can do this for one day, you can do it for two days. And every day’s triumph will add to your strength to win out the next day. Each succeeding day’s victory will become easier and easier, until you have formed the habit of making life a success as you go.”

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And, remember, Feed Your Good Dog so your good dog always wins!

Hump Day Challenge – Get On Up!

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Your hump day challenge :: Get on up and dance, dance, dance the boogaloo!

Start The Esquires “Get On Up” Youtube video below and dance, dance, dance the boogaloo! And, try the Monkey, the Philly Dog too; and don’t forget the Jerk!

How’d that make you feel?

Bluebird of Happiness

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Photo credit: Rose Caplan

“The most significant bluebird meaning among all is its message for you to embrace happiness. When a bluebird appears, expect satisfaction and bliss to come your way as prosperity is due for a visit. It is an appeal to enjoy life and its wonders and to change the way you look at things, allowing you to appreciate every moment as well as our freedom that we often overlook.” Resource: Richard Alois

Thought of the Day – You’ll never see a U-Haul behind a hearse

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You’ll never see a U-Haul behind a hearse. ~Denzel Washington

“ ‘You’ll never see a U-Haul behind a hearse,’ Denzel Washington often said as we worked together on ‘Fences.’ ‘I don’t care how much money you have or what level of notoriety you’ve achieved, you can’t take any of it with you.’ There is a cap on earthly success, a ceiling on the amount of joy that possessions and awards can bring before disillusionment sets in. Our appearance, our prosperity, the applause: all of it is so fleeting. But a life of true significance has unlimited impact. It is measured in how well we’ve loved those around us, how much we’ve given away, how many seeds we’ve sown along our path. During her ninety-six years, Ms. [Cicely] Tyson has discovered the potent elixir: she has lived a life of that is bigger than she is, an existence grounded in purpose and flourishing in service to others. That is her defining masterpiece. That is her enduring gift to us all.” ~Viola Davis, Foreword – Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am

Resource: Goodreads – Cicely Tyson > Quotes > Quotable Quotes

Summer Tomatoes and Chilled Chunky Gazpacho

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Roma Tomatoes for GazpachoNew York Times Cooking just published its Editor’s Collection of Summer Tomato Recipes 46 Ways to Do Justice to Summer Tomatoes

If you can’t find a recipe among the 46 provided in the New York Times Cooking article that suits you, check out this Chunky Gazpacho recipe I adapted from the Food Network courtesy of Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger:

Ingredients

  • 3 cups of low-sodium V8 Juice, plus more if needed
  • 4 Roma tomatoes, seeded and diced
  • 1 large cucumber, peeled, seeded, and diced
  • 5 scallions, sliced
  • 1 red bell pepper, seeded and diced
  • 1 cup of peeled and diced jicama
  • 3 tomatillos, husks removed and diced
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • Juice of 1 lime
  • 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
  • 3 jalapeño, seeded and diced
  • 1 slice bread, crusts removed, soaked and squeezed
  • Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
  • Dash of Tabasco or other hot sauce of your choosing

Directions

Combine the V8 Juice, Roma tomatoes, cucumber, scallions, red bell pepper, jicama, and tomatillos in a large bowl. Remove about 1/4 of the vegetables and place in a blender along with the garlic, lime juice, olive oil, jalapeños, and bread. Blend until smooth. Return the puree to the bowl. Add more V8 Juice to thin, if needed. Add the sea salt, pepper, and a dash of hot sauce. Chill for at least 2 hours. Serve the gazpacho in chilled soup bowls.

Whatever you decide, enjoy!

And, remember Feed Your Good Dog so your good dog always wins!