When you focus on being normal, you exclude the possibility of being extraordinary.
--Ann Yoshida

No man ever steps in the same river twice,
for it is not the same river,
and he is not the same man.
-Heraclitus

There is a great deal of difference ( Read more... )

I'm not big on woo woo. When practitioners choose modalities simply because they "resonate" with them, I am skeptical. But when science backs up the use of something that has long been thought of as energy medicine, I am happy to recommend it. Of course people will tell you something is backed by science when it isn't, so you have to go look at ( Read more... )

Worldwide 4-H has over 6.8 million members in 80 countries. Now Monsanto is funding 4-H--I would suspect in exchange for the chance to mold young minds. So far they have provided the children with pro-GMO booklets about the "benefits" of genetically modified organisms. If Monsanto can get inside the heads of youth, they can change attitudes ( Read more... )

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope ( Read more... )

People demand freedom of speech
as a compensation for
the freedom of thought
which they seldom use.
-Kirkegaard

The relief of suffering and the cure of disease must be seen as twin obligations of a medical profession that is truly dedicated to the care of the sick. Physicians' failure to understand the nature of suffering can result in medical intervention that (though technically adequate) not only fails to relieve suffering but becomes a source of ( Read more... )

http://www.postcarbon.org/blog-post/523782-memo-to-the-occupied-movement-a

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A riot
is the language
of the unheard.
--MLKing, Jr