How do we manage to stay healthy in this season?
Yesterday at this time it was in the 30’s, the wind was out of the north. This morning it’s 67 and the wind is balmy and out of the south. My poor sinuses can not figure out what they need to do…
From my email…
Aquarius Horoscope for week of December 4, 2008
Aquarius (January 20-February 19)
What’s the healthiest, holiest rebellion you could launch, Aquarius? What would be the most constructive way to channel your longing to live in a more perfect world? How might you overthrow the status quo in ways that would so thoroughly enhance the greater good that even the people bent on preserving the status quo would benefit? Given the fact that you are in a phase when your trouble-making skills are dovetailing very nicely with your ability to bestow blessings, these are excellent questions for you to consider.
Free Will Astrology : Aquarius Horoscope.
Healthy, holy rebellion leading to trouble-making bestowal of blessings…you really have to like the sound of that…
Over the weekend this was in the Times…
Last week, in a small Wyoming town, I saw a family loading groceries into the nose of a gooseneck horse trailer, while the horses stood in the back, watching the shoppers coming and going in the parking lot. For all I knew, the horses had been to the grocery store many times. What struck me wasn’t the oddity of doing some shopping while hauling horses — I’ve done that myself. It was the way the scene pulled me out of my own life and into theirs.
Verlyn Klinkenborg - Noticing Elsewhere - NYTimes.com.
Has that ever happened to you? “It was the way the scene pulled me out of my own life and into theirs.” That one sentence made me sit up and say “yes”. I don’t know how many times something ordinary on the street would catch my eye and suddenly I would know exactly what was going on…Even when I really didn’t. But the connection was real…and intense. A real déjà vu kind of thing…Don’t you know?
Another headline that caught my attention over the weekend…
U.S. ‘Not Getting What We Pay For’ - washingtonpost.com.
Talk to the chief executives of America’s preeminent health-care institutions, and you might be surprised by what you hear: When it comes to medical care, the United States isn’t getting its money’s worth. Not even close.
Now anyone who has studied the statistics already knew this. As the article points out…
The United States today devotes 16 percent of its gross domestic product to medical care, more per capita than any other nation in the world. Yet numerous measures indicate the country lags in overall health: It ranks 29th in infant mortality, 48th in life expectancy and 19th out of 19 industrialized nations in preventable deaths.
The debate no longer is whether we need to fix the system. The debate now is how far do we go to fix the system. At least with a new administration, we will get that debate.
Related posts
Tags: health·people
I missed this last Friday when it played on the local PBS station…It’s nice to be able to catch it later on the “intranets”…
Bill Moyers and Michael Pollan…What a pair. A very in-debth exploration of food policy in America ensued. Here is just a part…
BILL MOYERS: What else? Give me a list, quickly, of what we can do to make a difference in this reforming the food system.
MICHAEL POLLAN: Well, plant a garden. If you’ve got space, and if you don’t, look into a community garden where you might rent a little bit of space, like we saw in East New York.
Cook. Simply by starting to cook again, you declare your independence from the culture of fast food. As soon as you cook, you start thinking about ingredients. You start thinking about plants and animals, and not the microwave. And you will find that your diet, just by that one simple act, that is greatly improved. You will find that you are supporting local agriculture, because you’ll care about the quality of ingredients. And you know, whether you’re cooking or not is one of the best predictors for a healthy diet. It’s more important than the class predictor. People with more money generally have healthier diets, but affluent people who don’t cook are not as healthy in their eating as poor people who still cook. So, very, very important. If you don’t have pots and pans, get them.
Now people say they don’t have time, and that’s an issue. And I am saying that we do need to invest more time in food. Food is just too important to relegate to these 10-minute corners of our lives. And you know, even if you would just take, you know, we watch cooking shows like crazy on television. We’ve turned cooking into a spectator sport. If you would merely invest the time you spend watching cooking shows in actually cooking, you would find you’ve got plenty of time to put a meal on the table.
Bill Moyers Journal . Transcripts | PBS.
I have now listened to the podcast on Saturday and viewed the video this morning…Go read the transcript, listen to the podcast or watch the video. It’ll be time well spent…
Related posts
Tags: food·health·journal·people·video
Though coffee drinkers may be cutting back on the expensive drinks, they still are consuming as much as they did last year — an average 3.3 cups a day per person, according to a June study by the National Coffee Association of U.S.A.
The study of the $39.5 billion industry also found that number of 18- to 24-year-olds drinking coffee daily dropped to 26 percent from 37 percent in 2007. The New York-based group conducted the study in the spring as gasoline prices were on the rise and many young consumers had to make budget cuts, Alan Kaiser, director of external relations and communications for the association, said.
Coffee drinkers are putting frugality into their blends | Business | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle.
To bad I never developed the habit of drinking the higher cost “Starbucks” type coffee drinks…It doesn’t offer me the opportunity to cut back…Oh well, anything beats my first cup of Joe. Cooked up by my grandfather, grounds boiled in an enamel pot on the camp house stove at the ranch…The spoon stood up straight in the cup when I stirred in the milk and sugar. Half of the cup was grounds. It made for an interesting introduction to the “pleasures” of coffee consumption. I think it was four years before I tried another cup.
Yesterday’s family gathering was a lot of fun with minimal squabbling for a bunch of individualists like my family…Here is a slideshow of some of the clan…
Related posts
Tags: family·Photo Friday·Thanksgiving
November 27th, 2008 · family
We are heading to my mom’s to be with all of the family…So I leave just this…
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart
Related posts
Tags: family·Thanksgiving
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=9ad2181b-e8ed-4161-b4ed-80c3297a9c8c)
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=382a12c9-dce5-4a23-90ae-2be4100ea236)
