Author: soma

Without the revolution, it doesn’t matter who you know, what you’ve done, where you’ve been, nor what you have. If the revolution hasn’t happened in your life, you are nowhere, you have nothing, and you know nothing. Without the revolution I don’t want to hear anything you have to say. I don’t want to accept…

For the past while I’ve been adding a special herb to my favorite healing tea mixture. To repeat, the mixture that I love to drink daily, especially in the afternoon or evening but often in the morning as well, contains: Lemon verbana leaf Hibiscus (roselle) dried flowers Stevia leaf Previously I had been adding chamomile…

Who is that girl, in the hospital? Is that the girl? They raped her. I heard her scream. The illiterate thugs. Who stood up to them? “Its just their culture.” No one stood up. Now she’s in the hospital. Isn’t anyone going to stand?

My ultimate dream would be that everyone who is not a runner and/or regular bicyclist would be kicked out of this topographically amazing city because I think only those who run and bicycle truly deserve to live in it.

A new study done in China is being reported which has found that people who eat spicy food (those containing capsaicin) 3-7 days per week died 14% less than people who do not. People who eat spicy food 1-2 days per week died 10% less. They undertook a prospective study of 487,375 participants, aged 30-79…

I didn’t know this, but it turns out that chicken “litter”, i.e. chicken feces, is used to grow organic rice. That is highly disgusting. When I have always thought about rice, I had an image in my mind of some idyllic rice paddy in harmony with nature, sort of like you see in those pictures…

I think I may have, finally, figured out what is wrong with me, after all this time. Something which was always inexplicable, which I could not understand, and which I tried over and over to comprehend but never could. I think that I have Life Force Sickness. There is too much life force in me.…

Took this pic today when I was leaving the farmer’s market and noticed this cute, tiny purslane plant growing in a crack in the street. As I was taking it there were several aggro crackheads passing by.

This is one of my best quinoa dishes to date. What I did was cook the quinoa, a variety called tricolor. After it cooked I cut up several small shiitake mushrooms and one hot Serrano pepper finely and put them in the rice cooker as the quinoa was cooling in order to let them heat…

Were I mayor of my city, or perhaps president of the country, there is one thing that I would certainly do that no one has done before. Hopefully there would be other things as well that I would do that have not been done before, but, among all the things, there is this one which…