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  • The best rice mistake I ever made

    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…

  • Mama Earth’s love waves

    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…

  • Gradients. Membranes. Life. Evolution.

    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,…

  • Trying out Chanel’s Les Beiges fluid (updated)

    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…

  • Kinnor harp tuning

    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…

  • Favorite evening tea

    This is my new favorite soothing eveving tea: Lemon verbena Raspberry leaf Passion flower Chamomile pinch of Stevia leaf

  • Today’s diet

    One Defense Up juice and two organic apricots. Two organic bananas. One GoMacro sesame-date energy bar. Make cup of white tea. Teabag was washed about 8 seconds with hot water then steeped for ~ 35 seconds. One large bowl of organic brown basmati rice with 1 large tsp. of chlorella, a dash of ACV, 1…

  • How I make rice

    I thought I would share with readers how, lately, I’ve been making my rice: I start out by cooking a couple cups of organic brown basmati rice in a rice cooker. When the rice cooker finishes its good to leave it sit for at least another 10 minutes because the brown rice is still actually…

  • Curry oatmeal. Bliss! Bliss! Bliss!

    Its late at night and because, as often happens, I over-restricted my calories today (estimation was around 1200) and am finding it difficult to sleep. I decided to make a bowl of organic oatmeal from quick oats which I read somewhere are the most easily-digestible form. Plus the fact that they cook in a rice…

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