Tag: lifestyle
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The old ways.
“We tend to think of landscapes as affecting us most strongly when we are in them or on them, when they offer us the primary sensations of touch and sight. But there are also the landscapes we bear with us in absentia, those places that live on in memory long after they have withdrawn in…
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The reasons some people dont stick with a meditation practice (and why others do).
This paper looked at factors affecting meditation persistence in a population of 953 people in the United States (via online surveys). The authors framed “persistence” within two categories: the number of lifetime practice sessions and current practice frequency. The authors of the paper found that people who were first exposed to a meditation practice through…
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The simple things
The simple things in lifeAre not thingsNor are they simple I have written before about being a coffee snob. And its funny to me how such a simple thing as drinking coffee can get all complicated. My own coffee snob-jectory has followed this convoluted path. At each step I felt I was at the apex…
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Summer nights
Summer nights.my sweet big assspins me asleep There is nothing worse than tossing and turning and trying to get to sleep all tangled up in sweaty summer sheets. When staying at Kelly’s sister’s house we always admired the large ceiling fans they use and last year we purchased a couple from a company called big…