The poet Rainer Maria Rilke once said, “It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
It's wonderful to see the seasons blossom across the the years, to mark our goals and dreams by as well.
We hope that April flowers have been blooming for you in both the spaces you see and the metaphorical places inside yourself as well.
There are some large things happening in the world right now but here are some tiny things to hopefully help you in your day today...
- M&J
P.S. - For those of you just joining, welcome to this edition of our monthly newsletter, The Positopian, where every month, we share positive news, fiction, resources, & insights to help you become the best version of yourself!
“We too, like trees can shake off our dead leaves and begin again.”
~A.Y. Greyson
Food and mood are so intricately connected that they’ve inspired a new area of brain study: Nutritional psychiatry, which examines how what we eat impacts how we feel.
Two "stolen" notebooks written by Charles Darwin have been mysteriously returned to Cambridge University, 22 years after they were last seen...
Their return comes 15 months after the BBC first highlighted they had gone missing and the library launched a worldwide appeal to find them
“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortial."
~Albert Pike
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
~Frank Herbert, Dune
Here's to a hopeful and loving and wonderful year as we continue on in 2022!
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Always Remember, "Chews" Joy :)
~Mandy & Jonathan Chew
