I guess the theme today is unity versus separation.
While standing under the cherry tree this morning in the rain, I wondered how to reconcile two apparent opposites:
"Right at this moment I am as I am supposed to be. If I were supposed to be anything else, I would be. Yet the person I see in the mirror is not perfect." VERSUS "I already am perfection." How is it possible to be perfect and imperfect at the same time? Maybe the flaws or imperfections I see in the mirror are not flaws at all. Maybe they are just ideas that my mind and our humanity has manufactured. Like standing perfectly under a tree, then putting on a cloak that disguises that perfection, and then believing that the cloak is the reality and crying that I am imperfect. Maybe all I need to do to see the perfection is to remove the cloak. I wonder how? Just thinking.Today's Teenty Tiny Reading: We feel included when our desires are taken into consideration. Withdraw your support from those who do not.
We have an election happening in Canada right about now. One of the hallmarks of the current government has been to exclude voters, reporters and even their own party members from places where policy is made. It's a power play, of course, meant to keep those who want power in power.This is the same tactic bullies use. Indirect bullying is characterized by isolating and excluding the victim.
Canada has always been thought of as a kind people. What happened that we would accept a government that acts like a bully? I intend to vote for someone who I believe may take my feelings and desires into consideration.Animal and bird sounds. She has talent. What fun!
Hamilton’s most recent work has examined how rapidly inactivity can cause harm. In studies of rats who were forced to be inactive, for example, he discovered that the leg muscles responsible for standing almost immediately lost more than 75 percent of their ability to remove harmful lipo-proteins from the blood. To show that the ill effects of sitting could have a rapid onset in humans too, Hamilton recruited 14 young, fit and thin volunteers and recorded a 40 percent reduction in insulin’s ability to uptake glucose in the subjects — after 24 hours of being sedentary.
This is a great article. I don't know if I'd call sugar toxic, but I sure do feel better now that I have pretty much eliminated it from my diet.
