Are the livers in your home always compatible?

By Olivene Godfrey

Is breakfast time at your house happy and serene or does the day start with squabbling and stormy scenes?  According to a magazine article the reason for early morning quarreling is that some people's livers wake up much later than the rest of their anatomy, while other people's livers are all bright and  brisk when they hop out of bed.

And woe is the family that contains both snappy livers and sleepy livers! Accordingly to the article it's hopeless to hope for harmony in the mornings when the livers in a family aren't compatible.

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Did you ever tie a string around your finger to help you to remember? In olden days, the string was red and was always used on a finger of the left hand.  In those days folks believed that the heart was on the left side and that it was the seat of all knowledge gained through memory.

The phrase, learning by heart, also comes from that belief. A red string was thought to be best because that was the magical color in folklore.  Primitive persons believed that if the "spirit of life" was kept in one area, that spot would be cured and pain  kept from spreading. So, they tied anklets, bracelets and pieces of cloth about the painful parts of the body. The habit of string-tying probably originated from that practice.  A string on the finger was thought to keep the thought there, to be remembered later.

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October with its bright blue skies and sunshine ushered in fall with a crisp cold snap yesterday and today.  Son Barry and I are shivering even while we have the heat turned on.  After the long hot summer we had, we welcome cooler weather, but  with my arthritis it is a mixed blessing.

See you next time.