Word of days with thoughts

0:00Hey, good morning. How y'all doing out there today? This is Strawberry. Hope everybody is doing well. If you're not doing well, let's find a way to get well, look well, and be well. Right now we're going to start life out with the word of the day and some thoughts to go with it. It's the word of the day podcast for March 2nd. Today's word is exhilarate spelled EX-H-I-L-A-R-A-T-E. Exilarate is a verb. It means to cause someone to feel very happy and excited. It's usually used in the passive voice as in to be exhilarated. Here's the word used. In a sentence from the Chicago Tribune, I'll say it, winter is my favorite season for jazz in Chicago. Summer may be busier and splashier, but there's nothing quite like nestling into a darkened club. Cheeks flushed from the cold for a singular and inventive night of music.

1:00It does more than thaw frozen fingers. It exhilarates, inspires and inflames in the best way. Many people find the word exhilarate a difficult one to spell. It's easy to forget that silent age in there and is it an E-R or A-R after the L? It may be easier to remember the spelling if you know that exhilarate ultimately comes from the Latin adjective Hilaryus, meaning cheerful. This also explains why the earliest meaning of exhilarate is to make cheerful. Exilarate comes from ex-hili-ratus, a form of ex-hili-rare, which combines ex with hila-rare, a verb from hila-rus, that means to cheer or gladden. If hila-rus looks familiar, that may be because it's also the source of the word hilarious and the word hilarity, as well as hilariously and hilariousness, of course, with your word of the day on Peter Sokolowski.

2:05Visit MarianWebster.com today for definitions, wordplay and trending word lookups. Soil that we can grow our seeds of joy in and it's so hard to be in that state. Discomfort comes from someone we love going into an environment that we think, right, I'm going to help them through this because they've never done this before and the instinct is to shut it down. Shut down my discomfort so they can get through it. For example, my son went to take his driving test the other week and I was like, babe, you have got to do this, you've got to do that, you've got to be practicing. Let's get practicing and it was all me managing my discomfort because I felt so powerless and so out of control and so uncomfortable with the fact that he was going to go into that space and fail and he'd be so disappointed. So my way to control that was to become a very smothery mother. Do this, do that, do this, do that.

3:07In the end, my husband said to me, come on back off and I went, you know what you're right and I sat there all that day, churn, churn, churn, churn, churn, churn, churn, discomfort, discomfort, discomfort. Only to discover he passed and he passed because by leaving him to it, he felt the discomfort to then solve it himself. Discomfort is the soil in which we sow our seeds of joy and growth. It's like the last few months I've been doing some work in my business and four, six weeks, the team will tell you, I've been a nightmare. This isn't good enough, I'm not happy with this. And I finally got off the dance floor, got to sit on the balcony and I got to think it through and I made a real big leap forward and solved the things that were bothering me. We now have a better course, we now have a better setup, we now have better relationships. I had to have that discomfort for that to happen.

4:09Your discomfort is the soil in which we grow the seeds of joy and happiness. And this extends to, if you have a decision that you know you need to make, if you are going through something where you're thinking, I'm sitting on this, but the decision that you need to make is going to cause deep discomfort for you and for the people around you. Think of it like this, you are laying the soil for the seed of joy and growth to grow. When you hold on to a decision like that, when you do not let yourself have that discomfort and you do not let the people around you have that discomfort because trust me they can cope, then all you have is cold, concrete, nothing to grow from. So today, I challenge you, take some of that discomfort so that you can grow your seeds of joy and growth.

5:13I'll be back tomorrow with another episode of every day positivity for you. In the meantime, have a great day and remember you have 100% got this. Hi, welcome to daily inspirational quote with Dr. Trina Boyce. Today's inspiring quote is by Robert Allen, who was an American screenwriter, film director and film producer. He stated, quote, cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather, cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of humanity. End quote. Here's a sweet and true story that just might surprise you. There was a Jewish family named Karnowski, who immigrated from Lithuania to the United States. They found a homeless seven-year-old boy on the streets and took pity on him. So they decided to take the little black boy to their home to care for him. He stayed and spent the night in this Jewish family's home where, for the first time in his life,

6:13he was treated with kindness and tenderness. When he went to bed, Mrs. Karnowski sang him Russian lullabies, which he sang with her. Later, he learned to sing and play several Russian and Jewish songs. Over time, this little boy became the adopted son of this family. Mr. Karnowski gave him money to buy his very first musical instrument as was the custom in Jewish families. Later, when he became a professional musician and composer, he used these Jewish melodies in compositions such as St. James Hospital and Go Down Moses. The little boy grew up and wrote a book about this Jewish family who adopted him in 1907. He even spoke Yiddish fluently. In memory of this family, and until the end of his life, he always wore the star of David, and said that in this family, he learned to live a real life and determination.

7:13This little boy's name was none other than Louis Armstrong. He grew up to become the leading trumpeter and one of the most influential artists in jazz music history. So, the beauty of the world lies in the diversity of its people. Once again, Robert Allen reminded us that cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather, cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of humanity. Now, be safe, healthy, and kind out there and make it a great day.