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Posted : Apr 5 2013 @ 4:41pm at 4:41pm
Author : Patrick Appel
Categories : The Dish
by Patrick Appel Maybe not: Just why stretching hampers performance is not fully understood, although the authors of both of the new studies write that they suspect the problem is in part that stretching does exactly what we expect it to do. It loosens muscles and their accompanying tendons. But in the process, it makes […]
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Doesn’t this photo just say, “Ask me again about Stroganoff?” When a New York Times obituary for a female rocket scientist opens with her beef stroganoff recipe, you know the gender gap in science has taken a turn for the aberrant.
Meanwhile, to lift the spirits, some gender-stereotype-busting vintage photos of women in science.
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I didn’t know that I could be a writer. I grew up working class and poor. I wasn’t around educated people or people who would ever dream of going off and being an artist of any sort. I had no awareness of that, but I became an avid reader. I read beyond my years, always reaching for the next thing.
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You just have to push forward. You have to follow your vision and hope for the best. You have to write for love.
”Fantastic interview with Cheryl Strayed, better-known as Dear Sugar, on The Great Discontent. Her Tiny Beautiful Things is one of the best things you’ll ever read.
(via explore-blog)
When I have five deadlines looming
Patience brings clarity to muddy water and a muddled mind.
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Eight Moves | Tending and befriending the body. A morning practice, a workday transition.
North-South Arm Swings Prairie Dog Head Rolls Shoulder Rolls, Body Rolls East-West Arm Swings Circle the Marble in the Well, aka Hip Rolls Drop the Knee, Circle the Ankle Arms Shape Heaven & Earth Walking-Standing Meditation
Start where you are + the miracle of mindfulness.
”For NOFA-VT 2012 Conference, Burlington, Vermont. February 10-12.
Norah Lake
Interview with Norah Lake, recently farmer with Chuck Wooster at Sunrise Farm, White River Junction, Vermont. Norah grew up exploring the gardens and forests of southern Vermont, but her passion for working the land really began with her gardening experience as a high school student at the Putney School, where students grow much of the food consumed in the dining hall.
In college, Norah delved into her interest in the natural world by majoring in Environmental Studies but continued to focus on sustainable agriculture both at home in the garden and farther afield with trips to Southern Africa and Latin America. After graduating, she spent a season managing the Dartmouth Organic Farm, where she expanded the small CSA to thirty shareholders and worked to incorporate the farm more deeply into the Dartmouth student experience.
She worked as business partner at Sunrise Farm, after several seasons of popping in and out and watching the farm grow from a distance. Among many other interests, Norah set up Sunrise’s first active beehive and hopes to continue to encourage our community of pollinators.
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“Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Truly, to be stiff and hard is the way of death; to be soft and supple is the way of life.”
Tao Te Ching
“Flowing water never stagnates, and the hinges of an active door never rust. This is due to movement.
The same principle applies to essence and energy. If the body does not move, essence does not flow. When essence does not flow, energy stagnates.”
Confucious, via Daniel Reid
“We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel; but it is the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the wheel depends.
We turn clay to make a vessel; but it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the vessel depends.
We pierce doors and windows to make a house; but it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the house depends.
Therefore, just as we take advantage of what is, so we should recognize the usefulness of what is not.”
Lao Tsu, via Daniel Reid
