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  • One of my favorite moisurizers: Fairy Dust Moonkiss

      I’ve been using Fairy Dust Moonkiss for a while.  I usually dampen my fingers with warm water then add several drops and then smooth or pat it onto my face.  I really love its properties: It’s very nourishing to skin and not greasy.  It’s a very natural and healthy way to moisturize and is…

  • Slow caffeine metabolizers at increased risk of heart attack

    So one of the great things that 23andme told me – before it was destroyed by the United States Food and Drug Administration – was that I’m a caffeine “slow metabolizer”. I wrote a while ago about an experience I had in which I was engaging in vigorous physical activity which resulted in my heart…

  • Amazing John Masters sale ends tonight

    $20 off and free shipping for all orders over $50 Ends midnight Dec. 26 PST I just bought a couple of their foaming hand & body wash which I really like.

  • End-of-year healing stuff

    End of year. Good time to clear. After accumulating so many things – possibly even not being aware of the extent to which we may have accumulated things – ’tis a good time to set intention to… clear. To just clear. To release everything. Because, whatever happened last year, you can’t take it with you…

  • Complexion, hair, and makeup

    Someone said – a couple people said actually – to me that people look their best when their hair is its natural color. Now that my hair is close – very close – not identical but close – to its natural color I think I’m starting to notice something: Because my hair is lighter, the…

  • Very therapeutic & soothing evening tea

    This is a variation – maybe an evolution – of my favorite evening tea, which often features Lamiaceae herbs: 14 – 17 oz. pure water, hot ~1 teaspoon holy basil/tulsi leaf slightly less or equivalent spearmint leaf pinch of stevia leaf ~2 mini wooden spoonfuls of ashwagandha powder After it has steeped for a good…

  • Where do Brahmins thrive the most?

    That is a core question. Where do Brahmins, as opposed to non-Brahmins, thrive? What is required? A Brahmin is not necessarily wealthy. In fact I would think that one would be less wealthy, less material and more devoted to non-material matters. There is a clash. People ignore it. People make money off it being ignored.…

  • Digging through my kitchen at 02:30 a.m. looking for ashwagandha

    I am on the mailing list for Garden of Life and it was mentioned in a mail recently. It was late. I have been experiencing some of the most extreme stress I’ve ever experienced in my life. I haven’t been able to sleep well. Waking up in the morning feeling sick in the pit of…

  • I should go to Nepal 🙂

    I recalculated my placement on the Global Fat Scale again as I’ve continued to lose weight and as of yesterday reached a weight that is less than when I was 16, which is the age when I reached my full adult height. I feel fine. I actually like not being as hungry as I used…

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