THANE - 6 MONTHS
EZEKIEL - 6 MONTHS
EZEKIEL 31/2 and shouldn't be in there! Just waiting for the thing to break!
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Guess What the Key to Happiness Is?
Location, Location, Location
A San Diego sunset is not a cure for depression, but it can't hurt.
I am boarding a plane headed to San Diego, Calif., from my home town of Ithaca, New York, and pondering the recent announcement that where one lives is connected to the incidence of Frequent Mental Distress (FMD).
As I take off my down coat (yes, it's April, but we just had snow), discard my galoshes, and roll up the sleeves of my flannel shirt, I am thinking hard about the researchers from San Diego who presumably averted their gaze from the pounding surf before their office windows long enough to analyze surveys on mental health from the Centers for Disease Control to discover that people who live on, say, Hawaiian beaches have fewer bouts of stress, depression and emotional problems than people who live in the misty hollows of Appalachia.
Big surprise.
I live in a town where, as I was told when I moved there, "the clouds go to die." Local legend claims Ithaca has more cloudy days than Seattle, and we certainly get more snow and ice than the Pacific Northwest. Relief from the snow and gray skies comes during the summer, when we are felled by heat and humidity. In fact, the weather stinks most of the time, and so I know full well how where you live affects how you feel. We have a huge county mental health building, and everyone in town is pale and irritable.
The researchers found that the adult prevalence of FMD was 9.4 percent overall. It ranged from 6.6 percent in Hawaii to 14.4 percent in Kentucky. The results will be published in the June issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
The question is, then, why in the world would anyone live anywhere but San Diego or Hawaii?
Humans do, in fact, have a long history of choosing to live in nice places. World demographics show that populations are highest near water; we tend to put down roots along rivers, around lakes and close to oceans. And no wonder. The view is great from the shore, as those of us from Ithaca know when we rent our summer beach condos.
But there might be more at stake here than the view.
Nutritionist Michael Crawford of the Metropolitan University in London claims that ancestral humans were so connected to beach and lake life that they got most of their food from the water.
More interesting, Crawford claims that all that fish eating was the engine behind human brain growth over evolutionary time. Fish contain high levels of omega-3 fatty acids which encourage brain expansion and lift mood. It's well established that those who eat lots of ocean going fish suffer less from depression, and that people with low mood can be uplifted by taking fish oil capsules.
And so our ancestors not only chose to live in nice places, they derived real evolutionary benefits from doing so.
The idiots are the ones who picked up stakes and moved inland. But that was inevitable. There is only so much shoreline to go around, and someone had to walk into the interior and investigate another ecology.
In fact, humans tend to be really good at adapting to different environments, and that is both our advantage and our curse. It allows us to move up mountains, out on deserts, and into the snowy and humid Northeast, and survive and procreate even though we are really grumpy about it.
But tonight in San Diego, sitting in a bubbling hot tub with a class of crisp California Chardonnay in my hand, I'll wonder, certainly not for the first time, if that ability to adapt to less than pleasant environments was really such a great leap forward for humankind.
By Meredith F. Small, LiveScience's Human Nature Columnist - May 17, 2009
A San Diego sunset is not a cure for depression, but it can't hurt.
I am boarding a plane headed to San Diego, Calif., from my home town of Ithaca, New York, and pondering the recent announcement that where one lives is connected to the incidence of Frequent Mental Distress (FMD).
As I take off my down coat (yes, it's April, but we just had snow), discard my galoshes, and roll up the sleeves of my flannel shirt, I am thinking hard about the researchers from San Diego who presumably averted their gaze from the pounding surf before their office windows long enough to analyze surveys on mental health from the Centers for Disease Control to discover that people who live on, say, Hawaiian beaches have fewer bouts of stress, depression and emotional problems than people who live in the misty hollows of Appalachia.
Big surprise.
I live in a town where, as I was told when I moved there, "the clouds go to die." Local legend claims Ithaca has more cloudy days than Seattle, and we certainly get more snow and ice than the Pacific Northwest. Relief from the snow and gray skies comes during the summer, when we are felled by heat and humidity. In fact, the weather stinks most of the time, and so I know full well how where you live affects how you feel. We have a huge county mental health building, and everyone in town is pale and irritable.
The researchers found that the adult prevalence of FMD was 9.4 percent overall. It ranged from 6.6 percent in Hawaii to 14.4 percent in Kentucky. The results will be published in the June issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
The question is, then, why in the world would anyone live anywhere but San Diego or Hawaii?
Humans do, in fact, have a long history of choosing to live in nice places. World demographics show that populations are highest near water; we tend to put down roots along rivers, around lakes and close to oceans. And no wonder. The view is great from the shore, as those of us from Ithaca know when we rent our summer beach condos.
But there might be more at stake here than the view.
Nutritionist Michael Crawford of the Metropolitan University in London claims that ancestral humans were so connected to beach and lake life that they got most of their food from the water.
More interesting, Crawford claims that all that fish eating was the engine behind human brain growth over evolutionary time. Fish contain high levels of omega-3 fatty acids which encourage brain expansion and lift mood. It's well established that those who eat lots of ocean going fish suffer less from depression, and that people with low mood can be uplifted by taking fish oil capsules.
And so our ancestors not only chose to live in nice places, they derived real evolutionary benefits from doing so.
The idiots are the ones who picked up stakes and moved inland. But that was inevitable. There is only so much shoreline to go around, and someone had to walk into the interior and investigate another ecology.
In fact, humans tend to be really good at adapting to different environments, and that is both our advantage and our curse. It allows us to move up mountains, out on deserts, and into the snowy and humid Northeast, and survive and procreate even though we are really grumpy about it.
But tonight in San Diego, sitting in a bubbling hot tub with a class of crisp California Chardonnay in my hand, I'll wonder, certainly not for the first time, if that ability to adapt to less than pleasant environments was really such a great leap forward for humankind.
By Meredith F. Small, LiveScience's Human Nature Columnist - May 17, 2009
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Around the World....with McD's
If only we had these McD's adds....
ISRAEL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsujRWX7flw
HONG KONG http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAvxN4Dad-s
ISRAEL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsujRWX7flw
HONG KONG http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAvxN4Dad-s
Someone's Got Talent
Some serious artistic talent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4icC0VOGE2U&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4icC0VOGE2U&feature=related
Friday, May 15, 2009
The Woman Who Lead
"GRACEFUL, REMARKABLE & GENUINE.
IN THE TRUEST SENSE, A LEADING LADY. "
Live simply.
Love generously.
Care deeply.
Speak kindly.
CATHERINE DRINNAN TAYLOR
MARCH 8, 1919 - MAY 15, 2009
“There are people whom one appreciates immediately and forever.
Even to know they are alive in the world is quite enough.”
I don’t remember formally meeting my Auntie Cath because I was just ten tiny piggies when she came into my life but I remember when I really began to ‘know’ and love her as my family.
I don’t remember formally meeting my Auntie Cath because I was just ten tiny piggies when she came into my life but I remember when I really began to ‘know’ and love her as my family.
I was that impressionable, awkward, stubborn teenager, but even in this state there was something about Cath that I gravitated toward almost instantaneously. She and I both understood synthesis. And the likes of a beautiful friendship emerged.
*
Auntie Cath not only understood that a loving atmosphere in the home is the foundation for life, she lived it, every single day of HER life. There was authenticity, a synergistic win-win component in Auntie Cath that was a rare diamond in a world that I was quickly making note wasn’t always so authentic.
**
As I got older, I recognized Auntie Cath as a calm and gentle woman; one of a spirit that dictated magnanimous inner strength. There was a groundedness that produced an almost angelic like lightness, weightlessness, and effortlessness. People were her most valuable treasures, not the things that adorned her walls and tables.
***
Although Auntie Cath had a listening ear, it also came with a calm gentle stroke over the face and a pull into her side embrace. YOU SIMPLY FELT LOVED. And I'll take feeling over having anyday.
Although Auntie Cath had a listening ear, it also came with a calm gentle stroke over the face and a pull into her side embrace. YOU SIMPLY FELT LOVED. And I'll take feeling over having anyday.
****
When she spoke to you it was with great respect (no matter who you were). She was present and had a way of making you feel as though you were the most important person in that room for a moment. Her eyes never left yours as words of comfort, care and wisdom seemed to almost effortlessly drip off her tongue. In her presence you knew beyond any doubt that you were loved and loved without condition.
*****
When I think of families and why they ebb and flow so naturally through the hurdles, the first common thread running through their tapestry is that there has to be a genuine humanitarian at the helm. This person must have enough integrity to hold steadfast to an ethos that is rooted in nothing more than simple pure unconditional love.
******
Catherine left the world a rich, rich woman! “The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.” She never allowed the time burglars of life to take her away from her purpose – to spread love while running an open credit course in Happiology 101.
*******
The greatest gifts we can leave behind for those that love us are the memories of the ability to chance life to new thought, unexpected laughter, and wisdom. I feel blessed to have known this incredible humanitarian for all the earthly years.
The greatest gifts we can leave behind for those that love us are the memories of the ability to chance life to new thought, unexpected laughter, and wisdom. I feel blessed to have known this incredible humanitarian for all the earthly years.
********
What a REMARKABLE woman she was!
My thoughts go out to my extended family.
May much laughter, light and spirit shine through the windows of your life in the coming arduous but necessary days.
Bring It On Home Sweet Love & Stand By Me
And THIS is exactly what I mean by beautiful awakenings - they are everywhere! If you don't feel the shiver perhaps you should head to the DOC - there could be something wrong with one of your heartstrings!!!
Click below to view:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPN764drG2Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM
Peace out!
Click below to view:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPN764drG2Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM
Peace out!
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
The Story of Stuff
Alas.........The Golden Arrow isn't so golden afterall.
Click on the below to see what I'm talking about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLBE5QAYXp8&feature=fvst
http://www.storyofstuff.com/
USE YOUR MONEY TO DO STUFF INSTEAD OF BUY THINGS.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
I'm A Gonna Getcha!
Thaners is 6 months today! Time is fast. Life is wide. Click on above arrow to see live footage of what Zeke is so intent on watching.....
Happy Birthday to Me Thaney Style!
Big Smiles for you Momma!
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Why I Love Being A Mommacita
Imagination anyone?
The scratching tool - too much fun! Adds a personal quality to the artwork!
Mother's Day weekend painting - Zekie Momma uninterrupted time!
I need help with the super letters. Domi this plate is for your 2nd birthday tomorrow!
Just a little further.....
There I go....
What can I say, I'm a Yogi who likes big ham and bacon! To market, to market!
I can be introspective too.....
"Mom, can I take your order? Would you like Dr. Pecker or Seven Enough?"
Row row row your basket, out to the clothes line....
I have Dad's magic hands - allow me to give you a shoulder massage.
Oh, you liked that did you?
I love you little brother!
Big brother, I love you too! Even when you are mad at Mom that she won't allow you to tackle me....just yet. You wait, I'll send you on your keester soon enough!
A- chooooooo!
So, I got some chompers here Mom. Watch out boobies! And we ain't talking the bird!
Zerbert!
Yah, we got the goods over here. Come have a look see!
Yep, that's my big brother.....he thinks he's funny. He is!
Getting hungry now. Looks like Zeke is getting ready to eat ME! He'll have to wait! Ten pennies says I'm going to be bigger anyway!
Curl up in the Moses basket and recharge. You should try it.
"Mom, can I take your order? Would you like Dr. Pecker or Seven Enough?"
Row row row your basket, out to the clothes line....
I have Dad's magic hands - allow me to give you a shoulder massage.
Oh, you liked that did you?
I love you little brother!
Big brother, I love you too! Even when you are mad at Mom that she won't allow you to tackle me....just yet. You wait, I'll send you on your keester soon enough!
A- chooooooo!
So, I got some chompers here Mom. Watch out boobies! And we ain't talking the bird!
Zerbert!
Yah, we got the goods over here. Come have a look see!
Yep, that's my big brother.....he thinks he's funny. He is!
Getting hungry now. Looks like Zeke is getting ready to eat ME! He'll have to wait! Ten pennies says I'm going to be bigger anyway!
Curl up in the Moses basket and recharge. You should try it.
To be NO where is to be NOW here! And that's precisely where I as mother was on Mother's Day.
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Long Legged and the Tadpole
This is what 35 months apart gives you.
Look at those long legs and those little tadpole appendages!!!
Friday, May 8, 2009
Swimming at the Lagoon
Zeke's best bud Jaspar and his Momma Tara.
Click on the videos below to see the packed action....
Zeke in blue below. Jaz in green.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Hurricane Hazel
If there was a president for the entire world, I'd vote for Hazel. This woman rocks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY79KbCptTo
Hazel McCallion, CM (born February 14, 1921) is the mayor of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, the sixth largest city in the country. McCallion has been Mississauga's mayor for 31 years, holding office since 1978. She is affectionately called "Hurricane Hazel" by supporters as well as the media at large for her vibrant outspoken style of no-nonsense politics.
She is one of Canada's best known and longest-serving mayors. At the age of 85, she was easily re-elected in November 2006 for her 11th consecutive term, holding a 92% majority of the votes, and has often been reelected without even needing to conduct an actual campaign.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY79KbCptTo
Hazel McCallion, CM (born February 14, 1921) is the mayor of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, the sixth largest city in the country. McCallion has been Mississauga's mayor for 31 years, holding office since 1978. She is affectionately called "Hurricane Hazel" by supporters as well as the media at large for her vibrant outspoken style of no-nonsense politics.
She is one of Canada's best known and longest-serving mayors. At the age of 85, she was easily re-elected in November 2006 for her 11th consecutive term, holding a 92% majority of the votes, and has often been reelected without even needing to conduct an actual campaign.
Friday, May 1, 2009
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