Sunday, June 30, 2013
Are we all wrong about Diabetes?
Excellent and provocative TED talk regarding diabetes and insulin resistance:
http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_attia_what_if_we_re_wrong_about_diabetes.html?utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_content=button__2013-06-25
http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_attia_what_if_we_re_wrong_about_diabetes.html?utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_content=button__2013-06-25
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Friday, June 28, 2013
Wimbledon news
Without Roger Federer, Wimbledon has lost its heart for me. I'm sure I'll start watching again when the quarterfinals roll around on Monday or so but without the Greatest Player Ever, who cares?
Inspiration
From my new creative inspiration, Hugh MacLoed:
Sales is like anything else in business: It takes twice as long as it should, and five times as long as we’d prefer – and just when you think you’ve got the sale closed, there will be another delay.
Sales is like anything else in business: It takes twice as long as it should, and five times as long as we’d prefer – and just when you think you’ve got the sale closed, there will be another delay.
Sales is messy because: Life is messy. Business is messy. They are all journeys, not destinations.
As soon as you understand that, that it being “messy” is not a personal reflection on you, it’s just the way of the world was made...Then, sales, Life and The Universe all get a lot easier.
This is another image for the sales and marketing department - a reminder that there are no levers to pull, but journeys to be lived.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Joni
Joni Mitchell is simply remarkable.
http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/TV%20Shows/The%20National/ID/2390727946/
http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/TV%20Shows/The%20National/ID/2390727946/
Monday, June 24, 2013
Saturday, June 22, 2013
The Gift
From the book cover:
"A modern classic, The Gift is a brilliant defense of the value of creativity and its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities."
Friday, June 21, 2013
G'Quan
G’Quan wrote, “There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain."
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Krishnamurti
A man who says, 'I want to change, tell me how to', seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority whom he hopes will bring about order in himself. But can authority ever bring about inward order? Order imposed from without must always breed disorder.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Sufi Quote
"What is the difference between a soul that's broken and a soul that's growing?"
"Nothing."
--Anonymous Sufi
"Nothing."
--Anonymous Sufi
The Bryan Brothers
Bob and Mike Bryan
The brothers made Queen’s Club their eighth title of the year. The reigning champions at the U.S. Open, Australian Open and French Open, they could complete their own version of the Golden Slam if they win Wimbledon. If you haven't watched the Bryan Brothers, you haven't seen poetry in motion. Born three minutes apart, Bob and Mike have been in sync ever since, on and off the court.
"Their success is the result of a combination of hard work, mutual respect, and passion for tennis."
To learn more: http://www.bryanbros.com/about-bryans.html
The brothers made Queen’s Club their eighth title of the year. The reigning champions at the U.S. Open, Australian Open and French Open, they could complete their own version of the Golden Slam if they win Wimbledon. If you haven't watched the Bryan Brothers, you haven't seen poetry in motion. Born three minutes apart, Bob and Mike have been in sync ever since, on and off the court.
"Their success is the result of a combination of hard work, mutual respect, and passion for tennis."
To learn more: http://www.bryanbros.com/about-bryans.html
Monday, June 17, 2013
Tolle
'Life doesn't work anymore as a caterpillar'
"It gets worse right before we become a butterfly'
Eckhart Tolle
"It gets worse right before we become a butterfly'
Eckhart Tolle
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Monday, June 10, 2013
The Pictures
The Pictures
As the cool
winter evening approaches
A nephew's
portrait arrives in the mail
Joining the
other pictures idling on the wall,
Mirrored
windows revealing
The souls of
loved ones.
Babies
caught in early moments of sheer vulnerability,
Faces
unencumbered by dissatisfaction and disappointment,
Eyes pure
centers of formidable creation,
Bodies
wiggling and rhyming with invisible tunes.
My atrophied
heart stirs in front of the pictures.
I try to
move away but eyes follow
Like the
stars above on watch.
I breathe
intuitively, flow invisibly
Like a
shadow, like a premature ghost.
Yet the
faces in the pictures still glow.
The scepter
of suicide lures
Even life's
most faithful,
Just a
dream, a dark misguided fantasy,
Or a
reliable time-out for the restless.
The pictures
act as heavy paddles
Slamming
down across the sorrow
Like bright
sunshine in the early morning.
Everything
is memorized in the pictures
Igniting
feelings and associations
Inside my
head, inside my heart.
I move
closer to the pictures
Knowing that
they are my earth,
As solid and
dependable as the weather.
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Good Morning
You received gifts from me; they were accepted.
But you don't understand how to think about the dead.
The smell of winter apples, of hoarfrost, and of linen.
There are nothing but gifts on this poor, poor Earth.
Czeslaw Milosz
But you don't understand how to think about the dead.
The smell of winter apples, of hoarfrost, and of linen.
There are nothing but gifts on this poor, poor Earth.
Czeslaw Milosz
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
barefoot style running
I couldn't play tennis twice a week without great shoes but maybe it is a different for runners:
From the NYTimes:
The primary lesson of the accumulating new science about barefoot-style running, he says, is that “the biomechanics of running are not simple, and generic proclamations” — like claims that all runners will benefit from barefoot-style shoes and running form — “are surely incorrect.”
Dr. Gruber agrees. “I always recommend that runners run the way that is most natural and comfortable for them,” she says. “Each runner runs a certain way for a reason, likely because of the way they were physically built. Unless there is some indication that you should change things, such as repeated injury, do not mess with that plan.”
From the NYTimes:
The primary lesson of the accumulating new science about barefoot-style running, he says, is that “the biomechanics of running are not simple, and generic proclamations” — like claims that all runners will benefit from barefoot-style shoes and running form — “are surely incorrect.”
Dr. Gruber agrees. “I always recommend that runners run the way that is most natural and comfortable for them,” she says. “Each runner runs a certain way for a reason, likely because of the way they were physically built. Unless there is some indication that you should change things, such as repeated injury, do not mess with that plan.”
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Reactions
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way; ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
The past is closed and limited; the future is open and free.
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