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Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief.
Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now.
You are not obligated to complete the work,
but neither are you free to abandon it.
-The Talmud

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Last night while at a Sierra Club meeting involving the effort to hasten decommission of the Columbia Generating Station (nuke at Hanford), I started having all manner of thoughts about my book on homeopathy. I brainstormed my intro and some chapter ideas on the same page where I'd taken a few notes about newly understood seismic activity in the ( Read more... )

Somebody has to do something.
It's just incredibly pathetic
that it has to be us.
--Jerry Garcia

Walking is a man's best medicine
--Hippocrates

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Both quotes swiped from this vid, entitled 23 and 1/2 hours. The author is a doctor who'd like to convince you that the best thing you can do for your health is limit your sitting and sleeping to 23. ( Read more... )

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I only went out for a walk,
and finally concluded to stay out ‘til sundown,
for going out, I found, was really going in.
~John Muir

The moon is huge and bright. My calendar says full tomorrow but from the looks of it, that peak fullness may be in the wee hours tonight. I'm going out walking in it.

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Researchers at the Ochsner Health System in Baton Rouge, Louisiana analyzed 14 years of data ('93-'06) on 120,000 people, adjusted for smoking and obesity, and discovered that just plain old sitting is a major health risk. Six or more hours a day on the keester causes women to have a 37% higher risk of dying compared with women who sat 3 hours or ( Read more... )