We have a "holiday" near and dear to many artists and designers today and some good news about a really devastating disease.

☕️ Today's To-Go Cup: “Remember George, no man is a failure who has friends.” ~ Clarence, the angel from It’s a Wonderful Life

How do you measure success and failure?

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This may be our longest episode and it's all due to celebrating an odd but amazing creature. Even a good news story about an uber-resourceful inventor is overshadowed by the Hagfish.

ok, we may need to correct a few details of our conversation about Hagfish. They have a cartilage-like plate that helps them "rasp" the flesh they want to eat from the carcass. Or, their body is like a digestive organ and it's more efficient for them to digest their food through their skin than through their stomach!

Hagfish slime expands at an amazing rate and volume. So, they only need to secrete a little bit to create lots and lots of slime.

And, just one more "did you know"...Hagfish slime is one of the softest substances ever recorded. Trying to quantify it meant that researchers had to change the way they measured it.

Oh...and Tim, you didn't mention their useful "tying-their-body-in-a-knot" trick!

For more info check out this article in the Atlantic about Hagfish slime fending off sharks and Priuses

☕️ Today's To-Go Cup: “Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.” ~ Anna Deavere Smith

Get in touch with a friend. Rekindle a relationship. Be the friendship meds that someone else needs.

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Today's good news story should be inspiring to anyone at any age. There's always more adventures ahead! And, while adventuring, we suggest celebrating chocolate cupcakes along the way.

☕️ Today's To-Go Cup Quote: “Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to level yourself up." ~ Thomas J. Watson

Are your friends just comfortable? Or do they force you to level yourself up?

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Tim is super excited about this day, celebrating the iconic Lucille Ball. There was far more to I Love Lucy than the laughs. And we talk about a team solving a local problem in Vancouver in an amazing way. But, we still don't understand why Canadians waste more food than any other developed nation!

More about Food Stash Foundation and the Rescued Food Market

☕️ Today's To-Go Cup: “I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning." ~ John McLeod

Do you see your every moment full of potential as a beginning?

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Train your brain, that's what we're talking about today as we celebrate that part of us that is in charge of so much of our lives. And we talk about a Father-Daughter team helping improve lives as they match up people who need something others may not need anymore.

For more information on Emergency RV

☕️ Today's To-Go Cup: “If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere." ~ Frank A. Clark

Is there a path you should be on but you're not taking because of an obstacle?

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We celebrate another food day today. It's National Sausage Pizza day and that brought out one of Tim's pet peeves: pineapple pizza.

Today's good news story is about food also. Where we buy our food can feed our soul as well. The story celebrates a large grocery chain's efforts to eliminate loneliness.

☕️ Today's To-Go Cup: “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously, that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case you fail by default." ~ Anonymous

When is the last time you failed at something?

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Tim gets close to crying. More than once. It was a good day.

☕️ Today's To-Go Cup: “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’.  They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life." ~ John Lennon

What do you want to be in life?

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Next to coffee, this might be Tim's favorite fake holiday to celebrate. Ever. We get a little silly and then talk about a company formed to do good in the world.

☕️ Today's To-Go Cup: “Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise." ~ Kobe Bryant

What challenge are you experiencing that you need to see as an opportunity to rise?

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