Quote to ponder under the apple tree
Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.
~ Les Brown (motivational speaker)
Resources to bite into
1. Moonstruck *
This week is the 40th anniversary of man’s first landing on the moon (July 20, 1969) so the current Brain Aerobics Weekly features a trivia quiz about moon facts and flights to the moon. Here are two more tidbits:
• Flying once around the moon is the equivalent of a round trip from New York to London. (Earth is about four times the size of the moon.)
• When walking on the moon, astronaut Alan Sheppard hit a golf ball that went 2,400 feet, nearly one-half a mile – definitely a record Tiger Woods is not likely to beat working within Earth’s gravity.
2. Swimming, swimming, when days are hot, when days are cold . . .*
Under the theme of swimming, the current Brain Aerobics Weekly links several events. This week marks the opening of the first U.S. public swimming school in Boston. Two weeks ago was Nude Recreation Week, and while we suspect few of our readers celebrated it in a public fashion, one early adopter was the sixth U.S. President, John Quincy Adams (who was born July 11, 1767). He reportedly arose before dawn each morning – 4:15 a.m. in the summer – for a nude swim in the Potomac, including during the years of his presidency, when the river was a relatively short walk from the White House. Once a tramp stole his clothes (left on the river bank) and once a female reporter supposedly sat on them so that he couldn’t leave the river until he granted her an interview. How’s that for using your noggin’?
(Source: http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/poets/adams_jquincy.php)
3. Today is Toss Away the “Could Haves” and “Should Haves” Day *
Put your regrets in the trash – where they belong. Then make a list of your strengths and best qualities and pat yourself on the back.
* These items are easily adapted when working with people with Alzheimer’s disease.
Tips/ideas/insights to savor *
The current Brain Aerobics Weekly features a quiz in honor of Tell an Old Joke Day (July 24) in which you are asked to match punch lines to bar joke set-ups (some of the oldest jokes around). This is also a great party game, ice-breaker and way to choose new partners in a training activity. Here are some samples from this week’s quiz:
Walking into the bar – Match the right punch line
a. "A beer please, and one for the road."
b. Next thing you know, the sheriff arrives and arrests him for rustling.
c. “Sorry, we don't serve food in here."
d. "Well, it was my first day with my hook."
e. "You can come in here, but you better not start anything!"
f. "You'll be driving later."
1. A cheeseburger walks into a bar, and the bartender says: ___
2. A pair of battery jumper cables walk into a bar. The bartender says: ___
3. A golf club walks into a bar and asks the barman for a pint of beer. The barman refuses to serve him. "Why not?" asks the golf club. The bartender says: ___
4. A guy walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under his arm and says: ___
5. A pirate with a wooden leg, a hook and an eye patch enters a bar. In conversation, the bartender soon learns the man lost his leg to a shark and his hand in a sword fight. He asks about his eye patch and the pirate says, "A seagull dropping fell into my eye." The bartender is incredulous: “You lost your eye to a seagull dropping?" The pirate says: ___
6. A cowboy walks into a bar for a drink. His hat is made of brown wrapping paper. And so are his shirt, vest, chaps, pants, boots and spurs. ___
Let the ever-ripening Wiser Now website become the apple of your eye.
-- Host a workshop, purchase materials or click on the blue print to sign up for Brain Aerobics Weekly. and Wiser Now Alzheimer’s Disease Caregiver Tips.
Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.
~ Les Brown (motivational speaker)
Resources to bite into
1. Moonstruck *This week is the 40th anniversary of man’s first landing on the moon (July 20, 1969) so the current Brain Aerobics Weekly features a trivia quiz about moon facts and flights to the moon. Here are two more tidbits:
• Flying once around the moon is the equivalent of a round trip from New York to London. (Earth is about four times the size of the moon.)
• When walking on the moon, astronaut Alan Sheppard hit a golf ball that went 2,400 feet, nearly one-half a mile – definitely a record Tiger Woods is not likely to beat working within Earth’s gravity.
2. Swimming, swimming, when days are hot, when days are cold . . .*
Under the theme of swimming, the current Brain Aerobics Weekly links several events. This week marks the opening of the first U.S. public swimming school in Boston. Two weeks ago was Nude Recreation Week, and while we suspect few of our readers celebrated it in a public fashion, one early adopter was the sixth U.S. President, John Quincy Adams (who was born July 11, 1767). He reportedly arose before dawn each morning – 4:15 a.m. in the summer – for a nude swim in the Potomac, including during the years of his presidency, when the river was a relatively short walk from the White House. Once a tramp stole his clothes (left on the river bank) and once a female reporter supposedly sat on them so that he couldn’t leave the river until he granted her an interview. How’s that for using your noggin’?
(Source: http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/poets/adams_jquincy.php)
3. Today is Toss Away the “Could Haves” and “Should Haves” Day *
Put your regrets in the trash – where they belong. Then make a list of your strengths and best qualities and pat yourself on the back.
* These items are easily adapted when working with people with Alzheimer’s disease.
Tips/ideas/insights to savor *
The current Brain Aerobics Weekly features a quiz in honor of Tell an Old Joke Day (July 24) in which you are asked to match punch lines to bar joke set-ups (some of the oldest jokes around). This is also a great party game, ice-breaker and way to choose new partners in a training activity. Here are some samples from this week’s quiz:
Walking into the bar – Match the right punch linea. "A beer please, and one for the road."
b. Next thing you know, the sheriff arrives and arrests him for rustling.
c. “Sorry, we don't serve food in here."
d. "Well, it was my first day with my hook."
e. "You can come in here, but you better not start anything!"
f. "You'll be driving later."
1. A cheeseburger walks into a bar, and the bartender says: ___
2. A pair of battery jumper cables walk into a bar. The bartender says: ___
3. A golf club walks into a bar and asks the barman for a pint of beer. The barman refuses to serve him. "Why not?" asks the golf club. The bartender says: ___
4. A guy walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under his arm and says: ___
5. A pirate with a wooden leg, a hook and an eye patch enters a bar. In conversation, the bartender soon learns the man lost his leg to a shark and his hand in a sword fight. He asks about his eye patch and the pirate says, "A seagull dropping fell into my eye." The bartender is incredulous: “You lost your eye to a seagull dropping?" The pirate says: ___
6. A cowboy walks into a bar for a drink. His hat is made of brown wrapping paper. And so are his shirt, vest, chaps, pants, boots and spurs. ___
Let the ever-ripening Wiser Now website become the apple of your eye.
-- Host a workshop, purchase materials or click on the blue print to sign up for Brain Aerobics Weekly. and Wiser Now Alzheimer’s Disease Caregiver Tips.
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