Author: soma

One of the last consistent sources of sugar-based sweetener in my diet was dark chocolate. Most people have probably noticed how, at health food stores, there are some dark chocolates with high chocolate content like 70% or so. Then there have also been these ultra-dark ones usually between 85% – 88%. The 88% is what…

Just read an article at bbc “Food crime occurring on ‘unprecedented’ scale – report“. Are you kidding me? All one has to do is walk into any supermarket to witness food crime on a massive scale. One more big scare which exists because of BS which now is being “solved” with more BS. Just like…

…used to be about giving praise and thanks to the Lord? Who anymore has the courage to openly express thanks? Materialism divides people. People have to want to be together in order for it to happen. What is the purpose of everything we do if it does not bring us closer together?

The way I’m supposed to live is not this way. There’s a bin in the kitchen where I put food scraps and other, non-toxic waste. There are flys – I affectionately call them ietsy (pron. “ee-tsi”) flies – that live in there and I don’t want to hurt them. Tonight I took the polish of…

I went to make rice yesterday and was low on rice. I only had a very small amount of some brown basmati and a small amount of another brown short-grain variety. I put those in the rice cooker and was digging through all the grains and realized I had some millet. So I put in…

Every now and then where I live we feel Mama Earth’s love waves. We felt them last night in the wee hours of the morning. People get afraid and some even get hurt because humans build things and aren’t ready for when Mama Earth sends out her waves. I know Mama loves us but we…

I think I wrote a long time ago about a model of health based on the idea of the individual as a cellular-like unit. The idea is that, in order to live, an organism has to allow things in through its membrane. However, if it allows too much through, or allows the wrong things through,…

Not long ago Chanel came out with their new Les Beiges fluid makeup. It says on the tube “All-in-one healthy glow fluid”. I found that it does not work as a standalone foundation, or as something like a tinted moisturizer or BB cream that would be used on its own after serums. It definitely does…

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Just got a Kinnor harp today and having a lot of fun playing with different tunings. Earlier I tuned it to a mixo-lydian pentatonic scale which was fun. Also came up with this really cool one which reminds me of a koto: (from low to high) B♭ D E♭ G A B♭ D E♭ G…