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I Ain’t no Doctor
an occasional column by Charles Faris, hhc
Hey there Non-Doc. I’m reading about this Spring Cleaning thing and I’m a little confused. What’s the difference between a Spring Cleaning and a detox? And how is this different from the kit cleanses I see t the health food stores?–Tempted and Confused
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I Ain’t no Doctor
an occasional column by charles faris, hhc
Panic is fear of the natural
So here we go again, the latest outbreak of the disease that is going to
destroy civilization,
bring on martial law and enforced vaccination, or
bring the population down to a sustainable level.
Well sorry, I don’t really have the time in my day [...]
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photo by humboldthead
a cautionary tale
wandered into trader joes the other day to buy a simple lunch, an apple and some cheese, and when i got my receipt i noticed that i was charged 65¢ rather than the expected 45¢. so i mentioned it to the cashier and her response was
the organic apples are always 65¢.
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photo by jelles
why don’t we do what we say we want to do?
the way i see it is that we are either deluded about what we say we want to do, ie we don’t really want to do it, it’s just an idea, something we haven’t really gotten into or even thought through, and what we [...]
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photo by sensual shadows photography
idea generator
i got some feedback this week that got me to thinking about my influence, and to look back at some things i’ve shared freely in the past. huh. kinda shocking that the answer to a current quandary was staring me in the face as i looked back upon some of [...]
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through the looking glass
if alice peers through the looking glass and sees the jabberwocky, the walrus and the carpenter, and tweedledum and tweedledee, all representations of an incomprehensible adult world, then who is on the other side of the glass looking at alice (other than elvis costello!)? and what are they seeing?
one of the great [...]
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numbers and chaos
number theory, from its humble beginnings as “one, two, many” has always existed as an attempt to make sense of the world we live in, give us some firm mental ground to walk upon, and, when we are lucky, offer us some predictive value. ironically enough, the field of mathematics has become a victim [...]
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downtown
it’s 7:15 am and i’m sitting in the “lower level” of the starbucks outside arlington station, boston. funny thing that i live in boston technically, and spend almost no time here. maybe that’s because roslindale, my community, is off the subway, so it’s either pony up the big bucks and take the commuter rail, deal [...]
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When health is absent,
wisdom cannot reveal itself,
art cannot become manifest,
strength cannot be exerted,
wealth becomes useless,
and reason is powerless.
herophilus 300 b.c.
thanks to daniela haskara for the herophilus quote, and may i close the loop by saying that if you ain’t got reason, wealth, strength, art,or wisdom, you ain’t got your health. which shows in my mind [...]
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rubber band the wrist
okay then. complaint free world. rubber band the wrist and there we go.
the big no of complaint
the greatest block to the flow of passion is the big no of complaint. at its simplest we have the flow of yes and the dam of no. and the no is a revolt against what [...]
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