Have you ever witnessed someone having a heart attack, choking, or an accident? Did you know what to do, beyond calling 911? Were you able to provide assistance or did you stand there powerless until help came? The first person to respond in an emergency situation will be the person who is right there as [...]
Yesterday I was visiting with my father who happened to be watching an episode of Divorce Court where a wife was frustrated with her husband’s lack of financial and emotional contributions to the family and to their relationship. She felt that he just wanted to lay up and live off of her while he pursued a [...]
If there never seems to be enough time to get things done, then perhaps it’s time to rethink your approach to accomplishing them. And if multi-tasking only leaves you with a never ending list of open-ended projects and tasks, then it’s time to let go of the belief that you know how to juggle, and [...]
My original relocation goal was to be a Reverse Weekender: I’d live within a 2-hour drive to Brooklyn, spending my weekdays creating my art + wellness + farming + self-sufficient homestead and my weekends immersing myself in Brooklyn culture. But the plan wasn’t to do it alone. And now that I am by [...]
When was the last time you made purposeful eye contact with someone you didn’t know, smiled, and wished them a good day? We’re all connected socially, but disconnected in our interpersonal communications. We’re comfortable sharing the intimate, the profound, and the who-really-cares-what-you’re-doing-now moments of our lives online, but actual, face-to-face interaction? Hmm, when [...]
I’m sitting here, stuck, again, overwhelmed by this next round of purging. I haven’t bought anything new in a while, and while I also haven’t brought in much stuff over the past couple of months, I still feel like there’s still so much left to get rid of. But so far, I’ve: [...]
There’s something to be said about the hours between 3:30am and 6:30am. The Yogis call it the Amrit Vela, or, the “ambrosial period”. It’s a place that offers you a quiet stillness you may see for the next 15 hours, so it’s a perfect time to create the space for lies ahead. Here are 10 [...]
When’s the last time you got physically intimate that also didn’t involve or result in a sexual experience? Nonsexual physical contact is the most underused and underutilized tool for expressing intimacy, mindfulness, love, self-care, and self-love. Massage has multiple benefits, some of which include: eases muscle pain increases joint flexibility lessens anxiety and depression improves [...]
In my Shaolin Kung Fu class, my Sifu was always asking us, “Do You Know Who You Are?” Usually, we were in the midst of some grueling circuit exercise, pushing our limits, and our threshold of pain. He always answered the question for us: “Not as well as you think you do.” He was impelling [...]
Just a few months ago, my fridge was full to the brim of leafy greens, roots and eggs. At one point, I could barely keep up with my lofty culinary intentions and the fridge, as friend and colleague Olivia put it, became the place where vegetables went to die. Today, I’m staring at an empty [...]
A couple of weeks of overindulging on refined flour and lack of proper sleep have me nursing a mild sinus infection and giving me an excuse to stay in bed and watch old serials on Netflix. I’ve just finished season 3 of Torchwood and decided to see what the fuss of Doctor Who is about. [...]
As adults, we have a tendency to think of ourselves as more experienced, more worldly, and certainly, much wiser than our half-pint counterparts. But the world is changing rapidly, at a pace few adults have been able to keep up with, and we can no longer afford to be willfully resistant (and ignorant) to this [...]
New York State now boasts 180 winter farmers markets, no mean feat considering many our vegetable growers are done for the year. And with Hurricane Irene and Tropical Lee devastating much of the Hudson Valley and Catskill regions this summer, the presence of these markets is a bittersweet reminder of Mother Nature’s destroying principle as well as farmers’ [...]
I’m back from a weekend in Syracuse, NY where I attended the NYS Ag Society meeting. It was a long weekend of tours and debates and discussions about agriculture. I had a lot of fun, and as usual, met some really interesting people and came home with a ton of ideas for my other business. [...]
A major part of this purging I’ve undergone this past month and a half was really not about getting rid of all this STUFF. Yes, this STUFF needed to GO. But this process really was about getting down to the accountability of how I got here (overwhelmed, stuck, unhappy) in the first place. I wasn’t [...]
How much do you really need to live a happy, healthy, successful life? For some people, brand-new, shiny, sparkly things are an external (albeit superficial) measure of success. Stuff makes them feel important and admired envied. Stuff lets everyone know they have arrived. For others, surrounding themselves with lots of stuff keeps them from having [...]
Over the past fifty years, USAmericans have experienced a shift in the way they relate to food with disturbing consequences. The popular attitude seems to be, “I don’t care where it comes from or how it’s made as long as I can recognize it, it smells good, it tastes good, and it’s cheap.” Real, whole [...]
Are people telling you… “You can’t have that.” “You can’t do that.” “You’re not smart enough.” “You’re not skinny enough.” “You’re just not that funny.” “You can’t afford that.” “You’ll never make it.” “You’re not pretty enough.” “You need to just pick one thing and stick with it.” “You have too many standards.” “You have [...]
Yesterday marked a MAJOR accomplishment for me: In just two weeks, I cleared out stacks and stacks of papers, magazines, and books that have been weighing me down for years. This is a milestone, considering that I gave myself six weeks to get all of this paper out (I hope to be done with the [...]
To me, anyway. If you let my mother tell it, she’d say it stopped working for me when I had to start giving gifts. She’s never wrong and knows me better than I know myself, so I never tell her that the reason why I liberated myself from her idea of Christmas is because it [...]
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