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Word of the Day

Achieve – “to carry out successfully, accomplish, to get or attain as the result of exertion, reach, become successful, perform”

Balance: “physical equilibrium, remainder, mental and emotional steadiness, harmony, a condition in which opposing forces are equal to one another, equilibrium, equipoise, poise, counterbalance, counterpoise; firmness, fixedness, security, stability, steadiness”

Celebrate: “to perform (a sacrament or solemn ceremony) publicly and with appropriate rites, to honor (as a holiday) by solemn ceremonies or by refraining from ordinary business, to mark (as an anniversary) by festivities or other deviation from routine, to hold up or play up for public notice, to observe a notable occasion with festivities, keep”

* Source: Merriam Webster Dictionary Online:

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The limits of my language are the limits of my mind.

All I know is what I have words for.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

“A poet is born with his talent … Poetry … is a kind of alchemy of such rare virtue that whoever knows the nature of her composition may change her into pure gold of inestimable value.”

Miguel de Cervantes

QuixWorks is a Health & Wellness Center for the Body, Mind & Soul, dedicated to offering therapeutic services which improve the physical and emotional aspects of life through soothing therapeutic massage, bodywork and education in a safe, comfortable and healing environment

Origin of QuixWorks:

Bodywork: “therapeutic touching or manipulation of the body by using specialized techniques” *

QuixWorks is pronounced “KeyWorks”. The pronunciation comes from Quixote and my high school French class.

Quix (pronounced “key” originates from Don Quixote, A man, a fictional character, from a book, which has endured for 5 centuries, written by Miguel de Cervantes.

Open any page of this 500-year old book and you’ll find beauty, brilliance and adventure. “Don Quixote stands for everything that is gentle, forlorn, pure, unselfish, and gallant.” (Edith Grossman).

Quixote is associated with folly, foolishness, but also courage and daring. “The most agreeable madman who ever lived!” {Cervantes on Don Quixote)

What would our life be like if we looked inside ourselves, instead of fretting over wrinkles? Why don’t we realize that we earned all the creases and folds in our skin on our great adventures? “People sometimes go in quest of one thing and meet with another.” {Cervantes, Don Quixote}

And how would we rest each night If we looked at sleep and dreams as our dear friend, Quixote did, “Praise be to him who invented sleep, which is the mantle that shrouds all human thoughts, the food that dispels hunger, the drink that quenches thirst, the fire that warms the cold, the cool breeze that moderates heat; in a word, the general coin that purchases every commodity; the weight and balance that makes the shepherd even with his sovereign and the simple with the sage.”

How would our daily life be different, if instead of being undone by a few hot flashes, we embraced menopause? If we could stand tall and faced all the changes in our life … then, about us, it could be said, “The most agreeable madwoman who ever lived.”

* Source: Merriam Webster Dictionary Online

Windmill:

“A mill or machine operated by the wind usually acting on oblique vanes or sails that radiate from a horizontal shaft, a wind-driven water pump or electric generator.

A callisthenic exercise that involves alternately lowering each outstretched hand to touch the toes of the opposite foot.

From the episode in Don Quixote by Cervantes in which the hero attacks windmills under the illusion that they are giants], -- usually used in the phrase to `tilt at windmills’” *