holidays, quotes and all things memory
July 22nd is World Brain Day, an annual celebration suggested by the Public Awareness and Advocacy Committee to be July 22, 2014. This was based on the date when the World Federation of Neurology was established in 1957. Its main objective “is to increase public awareness and promote advocacy related to brain health.”
MoreJuly 7th is World Chocolate Day or International Chocolate Day – the global celebration of cacao-made treats every year. Now, before we sink our teeth into huge chocolatey goodness, let us take a piece of that cocoa history.
MorePseudo-forgetting is like forgetting but “not in a real sense”. This is because there is no true learning and that information was never really stored as long-term memory for it to be recalled. This is sometimes referred to as mental blur.
MoreJuly 2nd is National I Forgot Day, a day when you just simply relax and forget about anything . . . well, trivial. Anyway, this day could be a good excuse for not remembering whatever it is you need to recall…
MoreJune 21st is National Selfie Day. It was founded in 2014 by DJ Rick McNeely of Fishbowl Radio Network in Arlington, TX. It started out as an idea and now it is an annual self-portrait celebration.
MoreJune 1st is National Hazelnut Cake Day. One way to celebrate it is to bake it! Watch this video recipe of a home-baked hazelnut cake topped with chocolate ganache… Yum!
MorePatriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai Stevenson II
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no future.
Elie Wiesel
Mindfulness is that state in which you are aware of what is currently happening. It is simply living today – leaving behind unpleasant things that have already happened without worrying about what the future might hold. Mindfulness meditation, used as a therapeutic technique, is when our mind accepts all our bodily sensations in a calming way.
MoreMotherhood: All love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning
We are born of love. Love is our mother.
Rumi
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
George Eliot
At the end of the day, remind yourself that you did the best you could today, and that is good enough.
Lori Deschene
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Martha Graham
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A Pink And Flowery Eight (Photo Credit: Pixabay) Have you ever felt down in the psychological sense and was unable to figure out the reason why? Okay, those things do happen to us at times. However, there is no need for you or I to remain stuck in that…
Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off; it enters into us like breath into our lungs; it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.
Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
April 27th, 2019, or the last Saturday in April is National Sense of Smell Day. Sponsored by the Sense of Smell Institute, this annual event is held in children’s museums and science centers to highlight the importance of olfaction – that which pertains to the olfactory nerve inside the nose.
MoreA woman wears both jewelry and fragrance and both recall happy moments of her life.
Alain Boucheron
That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating.
Richard Neville
