I dropped Sita off at doggy school Saturday. I hope she’ll come back with a PhD. But a BA would be great. If she just learns a couple of classes really well, I will be satisfied! Sita, at 120#, is one big puppy. She has two traits that are bred into her genes (1) she […]
Here in Washington, DC, I live in a land of obsessed with doing. But there is another way, known to many, which is all about being. Our brains are made to do and be. Doing is all about getting things done, analyzing, breaking things down into their parts, plotting the path from point A to
Your beauty often shines in the areas where you struggle most. The Jungian idea of a shadow is that part of yourself that you do not claim, that you do not state or assert is part of you. Most often it refers to something that you are ashamed of or embarassed by. Inside that category
Many of the things that seem impossible now will become realities tomorrow! So opens the Disney Imagineering sizzle reel. If you haven’t seen this 2 1/2 minute video, I encourage you to check it out. Just click on the image at the right. If you want to see your dreams come to life, learn from
This is Grafitti Alley in Ann Arbor. When you walk in, there are spray cans laying around for you to pick up and go at it. And it’s a good thing. Sometimes i have to cut loose and let my freak flag fly, as David Crosby sang in, Almost Cut my Hair, on the Crosby,
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When I was in elementary school, I remember a class where a teacher asked us, “Who knows what it means to have a dog’s life?” I raised my hand and was called on. “It means you have everything taken care of for you. All your meals and needs are met. It’s an easy life.” The
Senator Theodore Bilbo, a Democrat from Mississippi was a racist as a matter of religious belief. He was fervent in his desire to prevent the races from mixing in any way, shape, or form. There “is every reason to believe that miscengenation and amalgamation are sins of man in direct defiance to the will of
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What is it that pierces our understanding of the world and opens new horizons, especially those we are resistant to yet which mean greater freedom and ability? Have you ever thought you could not do something and when someone insisted you could, you refused to believe? Then, they showed you beyond a doubt that you
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All night long my wife is getting texts that say, “Woot Woot!!” What is this? I am not familiar with this term. So, I looked it up on the holistic brain trust, the Internet. Turns out its origin is ambiguous. One source says it hails from a contraction in Dungeons & Dragons of �wow, loot!�
Fact: Almost 50 percent of the entire edible food items manufactured are never consumed. Google recently released a paper that proposes they dampen sites that contain large numbers of false facts. “We propose using Knowledge-Based Trust (KBT) to estimate source trustworthiness…” Fact: It’s illegal to kill a hedgehog with a machine gun in Britain. The
