Yeah, I m glad it’s not me this year. I wish them the best of everything on this day: let them run long all the way to the end, run easy and, for goodness sake, let them get home safe.
Archives for August 2015
From Mild to Chronic: Modern Innovations in Pain Relief
Advances are constantly being made when it comes to pain relief, and new research is always in progress to discover new ways to treat chronic pain. We have everything, from paracetamol to powerful pain relief drugs, and are prepared to treat every degree of pain, but because the situation constantly changes, so too must we adapt.
Harmony Lost and Restored: A Review of “A Late Quartet”
This beautiful film is about change and growth and new beginnings. It is a credit to the makers of this film and to the actors that bring it to life that these changes appear to arise naturally from the circumstances and character of each member of the group.
What is Your Paradise?
When you hear the word, what first comes into your minds eye? Try it now – say Paradise and close your eyes to see what your mind conjures up as Paradise. What is Paradise? Biblically, the Garden of Eden was Paradise , until after the Fall. “Heaven region – state of supreme bliss”(Oxford Dictionary)
Fire’s Kiss
Have you had a moment in your life when you found yourself standing at the edge of a fire? Feeling a pull towards a kind of transformation.
The Wine Bank
Beneath an old palace in the heart of Piedmont rests one of Italy’s great secret wine treasures. La Banca del Vino is Italy’s first interactive wine museum that covers all regions and all styles of local wine, bringing the encyclopedic regional detail of Italy’s complex wine story into clear focus. The only problem is that its administrators no longer want this great facility to remain a secret.
The Upstreet Story
“Basically it was just a few buds sitting around slugging back homebrew and dreaming big”, says Joey with a wink and a smile.
Tarmac Meditations #162: I’m, like, so visual
Went for a longish Sunday walk/run and remembered some other walks/runs in the forest; one of them looked like this creek; another was quiet like a branch on Sunday morning.
The Kymer Rouge Genocide in Cambodia
In the course of less than 4 years, the Kymer Rouge exterminated more than 3,000,000 of its 7,700,000 fellow Cambodians. It did so with a determination and brutality rarely matched in living memory. Further, it did so with the cynical support of the United States, the United Kingdom and other western nations that have suffered the wrath of world wars on their own soil. Even neighboring Thailand found ways to benefit from this systematic extermination.
Bright is Right in Climate Fight!
Even if high-albedo roofs were an “urban-only” thing, it would make a significant difference in energy use during summers.