Brighten Your Day
By Anne Coghlan
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About this ebook
We all like to feel good. Sometimes that is difficult these days. This book is meant as a mini coffee-table book that you can pick up and read a few pages at a time. Anybody who is visiting could read a few pages while you are making the coffee. It would be a wonderful gift for those having a bad time, for holidays and birthdays, for graduations and people whose lifestyles are changing due to age or illness, or for people who could use a good laugh. In short, everyone could find something to brighten their day. It is even written in larger print than usual, so you do not have to go looking for those ever-missing glasses. Everyone has times when they need to feel the gift of happiness.
My hope is to bring a little happiness to every reader and to give their lives more meaning. Just sit on your favorite chair and open the book at any page, and as you read, I hope a calmness comes over you--a calmness we all need in these crazy, busy, complicated days. Read on!
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Brighten Your Day - Anne Coghlan
Why?
Because it makes you attractive!
Because it relieves stress!
Because it changes your mood and that of those around you!
It makes people suspicious of what you are going to do or say!
No one knows what you are up to!
And because it takes forty-three muscles to frown and seventeen to smile.
Your Answering Machine
Recorded message:
Hi! You have reached _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _. I am busy right now, but if you leave your name and number, I will call you back as soon as possible. Have a good day and keep smiling.
So often, when I pick up messages, I hear, And I am smiling!
Just something as simple as that can make someone smile. Smiling relates to happiness, and so this message brings happiness to so many.
Children Want to Please
Alex always came to school without a pencil. Each day the teacher tried to help him. One day, while working with another group in the classroom, Alex came out again to ask for a pencil. Tired of the constant interruption, the teacher said, Just go and find a pencil.
Sometime later, Alex brought out his work to be checked. As usual it was well done. Then he showed her what he was writing with. She could not believe he was using the head of a pencil another child had broken off as an excuse to use the pencil sharpener.
Alex really wanted to do his work, but more importantly he wanted to please the teacher. Those are the days when teaching is a vocation and not a career!
Imagination
When I was a child, my sister, who is five years older, and I were playing in the yard. My father was listening to the soccer match on the radio. In those days, there was no instant replay, so if you missed it, you missed it! I kept coming in and whining that my sister would not let me walk with the doll’s pram (baby buggy). After many interruptions, my father came out to settle the problem and said, Where is this pram?
To which I answered, It is only a pretend pram, Daddy.
I cannot remember his exact words, but I am sure I was not his favorite daughter at that moment.
I guess my imagination was not running full force, and it never dawned on me to make up my own pram and walk beside her.
Oh dear!
Listening to Music
In her biography, a woman from Wexford, Ireland, described the gramophone circle. They were the first family in the town to get a windup gramophone and some records. Every Sunday evening, many friends would gather in their home to listen to the music. She also told that the first records were of two kinds. One, you put the needle on the outside, and it rode in the grooves to the center. The other, you placed the needle in the center, and it rode out on the grooves until it reached the