Fun Facts to help start your week:
Word of the Week: Cartoon
Word Origins: The word cartoon comes via French for carton and from Italian cartone, which meant literally ‘strong heavy paper, pasteboard’ (it was a derivative of carta ‘paper,’ which came from Latin charta, source also of English card, carton, chart and charter). Its meaning was in due course transferred to the preliminary sketches made by artists on such paper, the original and for nearly two centuries the only sense of the word in English. Its application to comic drawings in newspapers and magazines began in the 1840s.
Source: Dictionary of Word Origins by John Ayto
Remember to try this week to be like cartoons, strong and sturdy, but don’t forget to have some fun too and let your inner child come out to play.
Poem of the Week:
They asked her,
“What is real happiness?”
She answered,
“Happiness is not fulfilling every pleasure or getting every outcome you desire. Happiness is being able to enjoy life with a peaceful mind that is not constantly craving more. It is the inner peace that comes with embracing change.”
Source: Clarity and Connection by Yung Pueblo
As you start another, perhaps busy week, just remember this poem and it’s true hidden meaning, which is that sometimes less really is more. Sometimes, we get so caught up in our busy lives that we forget to take a moment and realize that what we have is enough. It’s okay if you only have a small amount or large amount of material items, it’s not about how much or how little you have, but it’s about being happy with what you do have and knowing that it’s okay to not have or constantly want more.
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