This prompt is like asking me to choose my favorite strand of hair. I’m just glad to have hair. The best way to start when given a prompt of any kind – challenge or otherwise – is to FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS.
Inspiring Quotes from Challenges
One quote that inspired me is found on Kirstin’s WQW post about fitness.
“Exercise is a celebration of what your body can do. Not a punishment for what you ate.“
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Terri Webster Schrandt has started her Fitness Friday posts again. Here is a great quote for today that goes along with my philosophy of fitness.
“One of the common mistakes we make when starting diets is that we approach food as something NOT to eat or enjoy. Of course, most of us need to eat more nutritious foods and cut down on calories. Rather than sink our money into diets that will stop working once we stop buying/eating the food, make a list of foods YOU do enjoy.”
Terri Webster Schrandt
The problem with weight loss programs is that they often make me gain weight! For a short time, years ago, I went to a physician who gave me a shot of B12 once a week and seven diet pills. For a few weeks they really worked. Then, they made me sick. I cut the pills in half and that worked for a while. On the plus side, I lost about 25 pounds that stayed off for years. On the minus side, when cutting the tiny pills into quarters still made me sick, it was time to quit the diet and never try the pills again.
Challenge Responses
Sunday Stills & Cellpic Sunday
It did snow for a second this morning in Prescott but melted before I snapped a shot. So, I’m relying on past photos of white things like Debbie from Deb’s World did for Sunday Stills since they are enjoying the heat of summer in Australia. These were taken with my iPhone 6.
Christmas Trip to Delaware
For this challenge I tried to go outside the box to find white photos. These came from the Winterthur Museum in Delaware at Christmas. To me they represented items that were traditionally white when my grandparents and even my mother was young – snow being the exception, of course.
Winterthur Museum is located in Delaware, not too far from Amish counties in Pennsylvania. Clothing for the Amish used to be typically white, black, or possibly gray. Anything else would have been prideful. The tureen shown was quite valuable, and also represented putting out the best.
Although these diorama scenes probably represented the late 1800s, my grandma’s bedding was all white all her life. When she moved in with Mom at age 80 in 1984, she moved all of her white bedding with her – torn and mended sheets included. Grandma was a true woman of the Great Depression and never got rid of anything. We had white bedding in our home until probably the late 1960s.
Grandma Golda always used a white tablecloth with a pad underneath to protect her wood table. Today restaurants, and possibly even hostess at home put on a white tablecloth when they want their guests to enjoy their finest table settings and cuisine.
Coming Up on Always Write and Elsewhere
- Tuesday: Challenge Host Interview with the four hostesses of What’s on Your Bookshelf.
- Wednesday: WQW Announcing my Word of the Year. WOTY, on Wednesday. Then I’ll post it on a link parted hosted by the What’s On Your Bookshelf crew. Here is the Link telling all about it.
- Friday: PPAC we will probably visit Kauai, HI
- Author Interview with Susan Braithwaite, the wife of Photos by Jez sometime in February. I’m sure Jez is a fan of hers! They will be hosting Manny, my traveling bear sometime soon as well.
Now It’s Your Turn
Are you double dipping today? Are you still writing along with Bloganuary? Let me know. I’d love to come visit.
Marsha Ingrao - Always Write 
Thank you for sharing these beautiful quotes with us, Marsha. I love them.😍
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Thank you, so much Little Lilly. 🙂
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You have had a nice week, with lots to look forward to. Donna
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Every week has nice aspects to it, doesn’t it?
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Your quotes are always thoughnt-provoking and inspiring, Marsha.
Thank you for the mention.
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You are welcome.
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love the inspiration behind that first quote on exercise!
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I thought it was fabulous! 🙂 I can’t take one bit of credit. One of my WQW participants found it.
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you found it!
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I remembered it, word for word, that’s how much I liked it! 🙂 She shared it on her Coffee Share this morning, too.
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it’s making the rounds!
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Yes, I noticed that, Jim. So are you, so I think you are as memorable as the quote. 🙂
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gee, thanks 🙂
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There are so many quotes I wish I’d thought of first. Reminds me of the response when Oscar Wilde said to James McNeill Whistler, “I wish I’d said that.” Reputedly the artist replied, “You will, Oscar, you will.”
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A lot of old quotes get mis acknowledged because they were said by someone and quoted by someone better known without credit given.
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Love your quotes and photos Marsha, well done! Terris is full of good ideas isn’t she? Looking forward to your post on Tuesday 🙂
Thanks for the mention to my blog too, much appreciated.
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Terri is great. She had a great post on Friday, too. 🙂
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I’m off to catch up with her now.
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I loved the quotes you shared.
Food is our energy source. And we should make a list of the ones we love best. Of course, choosing conscientiously to nourish the amazing machines our bodies are. Thanks, this is wisdom!
Also, about exercise not being punishment for what you ate. Brilliant.
Lovely post, everything 👏 — glad I read. Be well.
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Thank you so much, Selma.
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Great post Marsha. That quote you shared from my post is one of my favorites too. My hubby and I celebrate our 30th anniversary this fall and are thinking of going to the upper east coast for a week.
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Sounds like fun! Congratulations. Thanks again for pointing me to that great quote! 🙂
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Great quote and I would agree that would be hard to choose Marsha!
❤️
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I know! And I do quotes every week – go figure! 🙂
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You did great with this one! 💖💖💖
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Awwwww!
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When did you go to Delaware, Marsha? Thank you so much for including one of my fitness quotes for your Bloganuary post. I still abide by that rule of choosing your best foods and working with those. Why go low-carb or gluten-free if you don’t have to? I LOVE the quote Kirstin included as well! Your white images look awesome and tell their own stories! And Manny is white 🙂 Thanks for double-dipping with Sunday Stills this week. We were gone all day so now I’m hurrying to finish Sunday’s post!
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I just got on my computer. And it’s 4:23. I went to DE several times to see my mom’s cousin, Hal. My last visit was in 2018. He is a great host, and we saw lots of amazing places – well I did. He’s got macular degeneration and doesn’t see much.
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I love your quotes Marsha.
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Thanks, can’t take too much credit or they wouldn’t be quotes! LOL
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You’ve selected them and shared them. 🙏🏼
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True that! 🙂
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🙏🏼
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