The Solstice is behind us and Christmas is rapidly approaching. This time of year is always the most difficult season for me to stay rooted in the present moment. The short days and long nights upset my sun-seeking, biological rhythm and the stress and anxiety around traveling and Christmas activities, exacerbate the rhythmlessness. It’s like […]
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The pharmaceutical industry has propagated one of the greatest lies in the history of medicine. The belief that tweaking a symptom this way or that, by shutting off a signaling molecule, enzyme or hormone actually fixes the problem. Sadly, the underlying issue is often exacerbated by these pharmaceuticals. The medical industry has followed along, prescribing
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Things have been a little hectic lately, so we were looking for something to bring us back into balance. There’s nothing like a little comfort food to generate some harmony in the home, and one of our favorites is Chicken Pot Pie. A lot of folks just buy their pie crusts from the refrigerated section
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Isn’t it interesting that the most intelligent animals in the Great Wide World are the most violent and dangerous. The closest animals to humans are primates, in fact chimpanzees share almost 99% of our DNA. And Chimps are the most violent and agressive of all the animals in the animal kingdom, next to man of
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Fitness and diet have become two of the most important things in our lives, in the last half decade. Before that, we didn’t give them the correct weighting in our daily life. When we were young we wielded them like weapons, to achieve one goal or another and then we would resheath them until we
We’ve been experiencing a bit of disharmony lately at 3mph.org. Vickie and I’ve been connected for over three and a half decades and we’ve lived in harmony for the largest percentage of that time. However, occasionally, during life changing events, like getting a new puppy, the stress that comes with change stretches nerves for awhile.
One of our favorite quotes at 3mph, is “Let food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food.” We’ve always attributed the quote to Hippocrates, the 1st doctor. Research however, suggests that Hippocrates never uttered those words. It doesn’t really matter who said it first, we love the concept and strive to make it
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We drove up to Eastern Oregon to pick up a new pup; a trip of 2500 miles or so, by the time we got back to the cottage; hotels, campgrounds, gas and food probably cost more than he did. Was he worth it? A resounding YES, and that’s after he peed, pooped and puked in
We’re fond of the word “evolution,” and use it frequently in our essays and meanderings but not in the Darwinian sense of genetic mutation or survival of the fittest. We’re generally referring to the process of continuous change from a lower, simpler, or worse – to a higher, more complex, or better state. In other
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Carpe Diem is at the top of my dead language metaphor list. It’s like a war cry for, warriors of the present moment. Poets and philosophers have expressed the sentiment for millennia and plenty of folks in the present age must connect with the sentiment as well. The phrase gets used extensively in the names
I started writing this essay a few months ago but it just never clicked. I’d open it occasionally, read through and attempt to write but it wasn’t any fun. There were other articles to write that were more pleasant and easier to pen, so I stayed away. Recently though, I realized that the message is
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Back around four and half millenniums ago or millennia if you prefer, the supreme deity of the Egyptian pantheon ruled the sky. His name was Ra, which in ancient Egyptian simply meant “sun.” A great god, riding in his barge across the heavens by day, and descending into the underworld at night. Ra was creator;
I went for a ride this morning, out on the gravel again. The breeze was a little stronger than yesterday. It felt like it was coming from the northwest when I went out at sunrise to fetch the bike. I’ve been riding in the morning instead of walking lately, because my left knee’s been inflamed.