Looking together in the same direction.

Looking together in the same direction.
Sea otters hold hands while they sleep so they don't drift apart.

by my favorite poet, Mary Oliver

"Instructions for living a life.

Pay attention.

Be astonished.

Tell about it."

Mary Oliver


Friday, August 29, 2014

Wake up.



                                             Be the change you want to see in the world


                                          Hippie Peace Freaks


And have a wonderful 3 day holiday weekend.

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Change your environment


I found this thought-provoking.  Change is hard.  Change anyway.

“Obesity is the result of people responding normally to the obesogenic environment they find themselves in.”
     The above quote is from the Lancet.  It rings true.  We live in an extremely obesogenic environment.
  What we need to be saved from is an environment unlike anything any living thing has experienced in 4 billion years of evolution. 


                                         Is this our future?  Human dystopia:


      Get angry. Rebel. You don't need to mindlessly follow what media suggests or what others do, or what "people have always done."  The industrial complex is deceiving you because you are their bread and butter. They do not want you to change.  Change anyway. Do what is best for you.

http://www.weightymatters.ca/2014/08/guest-post-fitness-industrial-complex.html

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Prayer of the woods



                                                                      Hippie Peace Freaks

"Forests are the lungs of our land."   Franklin Delano Roosevelt


Trees help reduce your risk of dying:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_30693.cfm

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."---John Lennon


     Take a day now and then, or even just a portion of a day, to just be.  Enjoy the sunshine on your skin.

Monday, August 25, 2014

So true




                                                                                shared from Hippie Peace Freaks

     And leaving pools of drool on the floor in the kitchen!

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Drink more water.....please.

When there are droughts and we have serious water scarcity concerns, how we can justify continuing to consume animal products, which are so very wasteful of water to produce? Please remember that dairy (meaning dairy-derived milk, cream, ice cream, cheese, yogurt, etc.) is not a harmless byproduct. 

                                                                                     Vegan Street