Today NASA deliberately crashed a rocket into the moon to search for water. My moon. Your moon. The poets’ moon. The ancients’ moon. Usually we howl at the moon. Today I feel like howling with the moon, for the moon. I don’t know if she’s hurt, obviously, but this feels like an intensely disrepectful (to say…

My yoga teacher was just talking about how change is what we can count on, and quoted playrwright Bertolt Brecht. I couldn’t find the exact one she used, but this one from him is nice too: “Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”  She reminded us that…

This week the Center for Science in the Public Interest came out with a study of the “Top 10 Riskiest Foods“–meaning the ones that have made people ill the most often. They’re:  – Leafy greens – Eggs – Tuna – Oysters – Potatoes – Cheese – Ice Cream – Tomatoes – Sprouts – Berries The report says, “many…

Yesterday, I wrestled all day with an acute case of fidgety-itis.  The squirms.  The squiggles.  The heebie-jeebies.  The bouncy-leg tango. I have no idea where my inability to sit still came from.  It was a rainy day, usually an energy-suppressor.  Work was in high gear, but no more than usual.  And I know it wasn’t…

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