Category: Inspiration

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It’s high time for a global ban on bee-killing pesticides

Dead Bees
The European Commission is poised to propose a game-changing law to protect bees and other pollinators. The new ban on bee-killing pesticides would go far beyond current protections, banning three deadly neonics from fields all across Europe.
But these crucial bee-protecting laws aren’t guaranteed to become reality. A small group of politicians is trying to block them before EU member states even get to vote on the regulations.
Meanwhile, a scathing new UN report called the idea that we need neonics to feed ourselves a “myth” perpetuated by “unethical” corporations like Bayer and Syngenta that have millions in profits riding on continued reliance on bee-killing pesticides.
https://actions.sumofus.org/a/it-s-high-time-for-a-global-ban-on-bee-killing-pesticides-1/

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Contentment by Robert Service

An Ancient gaffer (old man) once I knew,
Who puffed a pipe and tossed a tankard;
He claimed a hundred years or two,
And for a dozen more he hankered;
So o’er a pint I asked how he
Had kept his timbers tight together;
He grinned and answered: “It maun (variant of must) be
Because I likes all kinds o’ weather.
“Fore every morn when I get up
I lights my clay pipe wi’ a cinder,
And as me mug o’ tea I sup
I looks from out the cottage winder;
And if it’s shade or if it’s shine
Or wind or snow befit to freeze me,
I always say: ‘Well, now that’s fine . . .
It’s just the sorto’ day to please me.’
“For I have found it wise in life
To take the luck the way it’s coming;
A wake, a worry or a wife –
Just carry on and keep a-humming.
And so I lights me pipe o’ clay,
And through the morn on blizzard borders,
I chuckle in me guts and say:
‘It’s just the day the doctor orders.'”
A mighty good philosophy
Thought I, and leads to longer living,
To make the best of things that be,
And take the weather of God’s giving;
So though the sky be ashen grey,
And winds be edged and sleet be slanting,
Heap faggots on the fire and say:
“It’s just the kind of day I’m wanting.”

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What Would I Do?

What Would I Do?
I had the opportunity to talk to a number of people at the Mind Body Spirit over the weekend. A lot of it was about nutrition but a goodly portion of the time I was conversing with people on the causes of stress and how to handle it. I even helped one person identify what was her basic purpose in life. Being on your basic purpose is one of the sixteen factors in living the healthiest life you can lead. This post from Facebook is very germane to that.