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Food Safety Bill HR 2749 Sounds Dangerous

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Two-ey and Minty sing the mantra that means:

May all beings be peaceful
May all beings be blissful
May all beings be free
And may all beings be paid!

Please sing along.

Namast-hey!

If you felt like you were going crazy this week, it wasn't just you. It was me, my mom, the guy at the front desk at the gym. It was almost everyone I know. And yes it was a crazy week with Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett both going off planet and Iran and the lost govenor and and and. But isn't almost every week like that these days?

But this week was a new moon.

We're all aware of the full moon and it's bewitching powerful and somewhat crazy making magic. But recently I've started to notice that the dark mysterious new moon is even more crazy making than her bright sister. Why?!!

People always talk about being happy or unhappy. As if it's an either or thing. But most of us are happy AND unhappy. The trick to being more happy is being willing to be unhappy!

I've noticed in my own life that when I am willing to be 100% unhappy 12% of the time I can be 100% happy 88% of the time.

One day I walked into class and noticed that since I had seen my teacher last, like two days ago, he’d changed. Good-bye robust athletic yogi, hello rock star. Not the junkie kind either. The thin, trim, spry, stage roaming, glowing kind.

After class, when I asked him what his secret was, he revealed he was on day four of the Master Cleanse. To open his hips. Really? Yes, supposedly the strict regimen of lemon, cayenne and water was, along with its other healing properties, supposed to help open up stubborn hips.

I’m going to do it too, I said. I wasn’t thinking of the hip opening, my hips were already more open than even my big mouth. They were so open that colds, flus and hormones settled eagerly into them, like fans before a show. I definitely didn’t need to open my hips. But I definitely did need to look like a rock star!

I’d always been put off by the Master Cleanse.

In the quest to make this blog findable for all those who seek it, what is here i am claiming my blog at technorati. The following code must appear on the front page: Technorati Profile

So it is done. Would that all claiming were this easy. Maybe it is.

The word claim comes from words meaning shout! And cock, as in rooster, is from Sanskrit, usakala, literally dawn calling. I love that phrase. Dawn calling.

What a beauty! And huge! 600 ft long. 3 times bigger than most. As if to say hey you guys, this one is really important. My decoding has, so far, revealed 7 possible meanings.

1. We need to let go - even more so - of heirarchical thinking/behavior.

Unlike humans, jellyfish don't have a brain and central nervous system feeding into it. They have a loose network of nerves which is called a nerve net. Of course we have been building all sorts of hue-man nerve nets.

THE PROBLEM

Our mid-century modern living room has a giant wall of west facing desert windows.
The mountain view is spectacular but all afternoon the sun pours in.

We used hospital track to curtain other rooms, but curtain hardware would have ruined this room's lines. But electric bills were ruining our mood, not to mention the carbon footprint that was ruining the earth, the very thing we were viewing.

Considered outdoor curtain$ (excellent for insulation) but spendy, complicated to install, plus they'd get trashed in one season because of the extreme winds.

A left over piece of this new-fangled radiant barrier, silver coated bubblewrap-esque, energy star rated insulation caught our eye. (leftover from insulating a wall we built in our garage).

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