I just want to spend the summer hiking and kayaking.

A blog I follow had a “Fitness Thesis” of sorts at the beginning of the year, and I’m not sure which it was, or I would link it, and I’m not really even sure that the author titled it that. Despite my lack of attention to details, I did find the idea interesting, so I’veContinue reading “I just want to spend the summer hiking and kayaking.”

The Neuroscience of Music (Frontal Cortex)

psychotherapy: Why does music make us feel? On the one hand, music is a purely abstract art form, devoid of language or explicit ideas. The stories it tells are all subtlety and subtext. And yet, even though music says little, it still manages to touch us deep, to tickle some universal nerves. When listening toContinue reading “The Neuroscience of Music (Frontal Cortex)”

But real health, durable and joyous, comes from detoxification, removal of the poisons by wisdom, insight into the true nature if reality, the experience of the self being one with the universe, filled with energy and bliss, not needing to be greedy, not fearing or hating anyone, but being joyfully compassionate to all, seen asContinue reading

We saw a white, Catholic, Republican federal judge murdered on his way to greet a Democratic woman, member of Congress, who was his friend and was Jewish. Her life was saved initially by a 20-year-old Mexican-American college student, who saved her, and eventually by a Korean-American combat surgeon…And then it was all eulogized and explainedContinue reading