Chattering Mind

Dried and in capsules, it might not taste half bad. Here’s an article about how a mother prone to postpartum depression overcame her history by eating bits of her fourth baby’s placenta.

The Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York, has announced that the famous Brazilian healer John of God is coming to conduct workshops October 1-4. The first day is already sold out. This will be his only visit to the U.S. in 2007. John of God was the subject of an ABC special several years ago.…

Veganlunchbox.com got me interested in these wonderful bento box lunchboxes to use for my kids’ school/camp lunches. Now Rachel Ray is into them too! They seem to foster a healthier dining approach since they can safely (and attractively) contain moist fruits and rice dishes within their different segments. Plus, you don’t need to use plastic…

Car manufacturers are in the process of developing less toxic, more environmentally sound car interiors. While we wait, we can study this page developed by green journalist Debra Lynn Dadd, and actually discover which current car interiors are safest for the environment and the chemically sensitive. For information on how to find a new car…

Thanks to astrologer Shelley Ackerman for directing me to the most literate, artistic, and honest mom blog I’ve seen in a while. It’s called “Dharma Mom: My Life with a 29-lb Guru.” (The actual URL address “nursingatkeyboard.blogspot.com.) This is the lovely chronicle of a spiritually-attuned woman feeling her way through an unfortunate divorce and single…

Hey, here’s a great Jezebel blog post with July Redbook cover images of singer Faith Hill before and after Photoshopping! Lordy, lordy, let us not be taken prisoner! Let us not feel we look like squat when we daily face our bathroom mirror. We live in a world where the airbrush strikes down as surely…

Boasting pink waterless toilets, clothes lines shaped like trees, and talk of a new book called “The Lazy Environmentalist,” Apartment Therapy’s new green blog is nothing short of fabulous. Check it out!

Good news. Folk chanteuse Suzanne Vega has released her first CD in six years. It’s called “Beauty and Crime.” If you’re not acquainted with her feminine, floaty, breathy voice, please listen to samples of her work at the above link to Amazon.com. Buddhism has been an ongoing aid and inspiration to her, as she’s mentioned…

Remember having those toughened-up “summer feet” when you were a kid? I ran barefoot much of the summer as a child, but like most adults, would never go beyond my house and garden without shoes now. Well, here’s a somewhat gimmicky but altogether intriguing cobblestone walkway you can buy for approximately $50 and stroll on…

Here’s the interesting (to some, most amusing) website of a man who feels that the founding fathers and other historic figures have been reincarnated into the bodies of today’s public figures. He uses photographs and old paintings to reveal that Tommy Franks is George Washington, Oprah Winfrey is James Wilson, Dean Kamen is Benjamin Franklin,…

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