February 2012
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Breathe ...
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Take a moment today to flood your body with oxygen, taking deep, long inhales into the lower lobes of your lungs. Oxygen is a huge fighter and preventer of cancer and too often our breath becomes very shallow when we are stressed. Flood your body with prana/breath and send your inner organs a little extra love.
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Google, you're starting to be evil
First Google changed the way it displays information on its search results pages to give significant weight to anything from Google+, in a clearly strong-armed move against Facebook, forcing anyone who cares about SEO to start using Plus. Whether you like it or not.
Then it updated its Privacy Policy. Have you read it? It contains this little gem (emphasis mine):
We may use the name you provide...
January 2012
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of...
– Gandhi (via dhammanovice)
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I wouldn't listen to me anyway
We always fantasize about what we’d tell our younger selves if we could travel back in time. Somehow “fix” our adolescence with our hard-won wisdom.
Except it wouldn’t work.
If I visited my 14-year-old self today, she’d be hearing the advice of a 41-year-old woman.
And at 14 I did get the advice of a 41-year-old woman: my mom.
You think I listened to her?
What...
Utne Reader: How Doctors Choose to Die →
I can confirm first-hand that this is absolutely true. Dr. Husband’s Advance Directive is very clear on this matter and it comes down to three letters: DNR.
utnereader:
Doctors have the very best medical care at their fingertips. They read journals that publish the latest medical findings; they know the most up-to-date treatments for various ailments and diseases; they might even play...
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Should Vanity Fair Be a Spelling Vigilante?
Nicely done, “Juli” Weiner … if that’s how you really spell your name …
vanityfair:
Just as New York Times public editor Arthur S. Brisbane is concerned whether his newspaper should print lies or the truth, we here at V.F. looking for reader input on whether and when Vanity Fair should spell “words” correctly in the stories we publish.
One example: the word...
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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...
– Anaïs Nin (via badideasophia)
Yes! for the New Year. Here’s to magic and growth in 2012.
December 2011
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8 Holiday Specials That Ruined Christmas →
How is the Star Wars special not #1?
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I never get them right, either. (Especially Kai... →
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How to feel old
Refinance your house to a 15-year mortgage.
Congratulate yourself that your house will be paid for in 15 years.
Realize that in 15 years you will be old enough to collect Social Security (assuming it still exists).
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