Some interesting thoughts. My take is that the ripples extend beyond your children, far beyond.
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Dancing vs Exercise – Is There A Difference?
Begs the question, Why exercise when you can dance?
Gluten-Free Multi-Grain Bread Recipe
Five months ago I asked ChatGPT and Perplexit.ai for some gluten-free bread recipes. They provided several and I have been attempting, with limited but growing success, to make a good one.
With the weather cooling and the oven setting on the lowest heat still not giving me an adequately risen dough, I asked my elder daughter if she had a bread maker. She has one and hadn’t used it for 5 years so was very happy to lend it to me.
First time I used the bread maker the loaf turned out sensational!
Wow! Who would live life without a bread maker! (Obviously a competent baker would, but that’s a stripe I have yet to earn! LOL!)
If you are interested, here’s the recipe as provided by Perplexity.ai and my substitutions/additions:
Gluten-Free Multi-Grain Bread Recipe
Dry Ingredients:
• 1 cup (120g) brown rice flour
• 1/2 cup (60g) white rice flour
• 1/2 cup (60g) buckwheat flour
• 1/4 cup (30g) almond meal
• 1/4 cup (30g) potato starch
• 1/4 cup (30g) tapioca starch
• 3 tablespoons (20g) coconut flour
• 1 tablespoon (12g) xanthan gum
• 2 teaspoons (7g) baking powder
• 1 teaspoon (6g) salt
Wet Ingredients:
• 2 cups (480ml) warm water (95-110°F / 35-43°C)
• 2 tablespoons honey or sugar
• 2 1/4 teaspoons (1 packet) active dry yeast
• 1/4 cup (60ml) olive oil
• 3 large eggs, room temperature
• 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
Instructions:
1. In a large bowl, mix all the dry ingredients thoroughly.
2. In a separate bowl, whisk together the wet ingredients.
3. Combine the wet and dry ingredients, mixing well to form a sticky dough.
4. Transfer the dough to a greased 9 x 5-inch loaf pan.
5. Cover and let rise in a warm place for about 1 hour.
6. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).
7. Bake for 45-55 minutes, or until the bread is golden brown and sounds hollow when tapped.
8. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then remove and cool completely.
Because buckwheat and almonds are presently contraindicated for Julie I substituted 90 grams of Hazelnut meal to replace the buckwheat flour and almond meal.
I have heard it is not good to cook honey so I used some coconut flower nectar instead.
I also added 50 grams each of flax seeds, pepitas, sesame seeds and sunflower seeds. (You could barely discern them in the resulting bread.)
All credit to Sunbeam for the bread maker, the result was as good a loaf as I have eaten. But please don’t tell Teal. She might ask for her bread maker back!
The Best Part About Being A Conspiracy Theorist
A True Hero…
…is not someone who does not feel fear or pain, it is someone who sets fear and paid aside to do regardless of them what they feel best at the time.
A few weeks before he left this world, Robin Williams sat down to film a short video for a little girl he had never met. The girl, terminally ill and in her final stages of life, had parents who reached out through a mutual connection hoping for a small gesture. What they received was a burst of life: Robin spoke in silly voices, slipped between accents with ease, blew kisses into the camera, and finished with a soft, smiling line, “Keep laughing, okay? Laughter is the best medicine.”
Her parents said she watched it every single day. It made her laugh when her body hurt too much to move. It gave her a reason to smile in the quiet, painful hours of hospital care. What they didn’t realize was that Robin, even while filming that message, was in the midst of his own unraveling. The man who brought so much joy to others was fighting a storm inside his mind.
He had recently received a diagnosis that explained none of what he was truly feeling. Doctors initially believed it was Parkinson’s disease, but the true culprit, Lewy body dementia, remained undetected until after he was gone. It was an aggressive condition that attacked not just his memory, but his grip on reality. He suffered from paranoia, insomnia, panic attacks, and moments of confusion so intense that he once forgot his own lines during a shoot, something that had never happened in his long career.
But in that message, recorded quietly at home, none of that pain showed. Robin radiated warmth. He looked straight into the camera, into the heart of a child who needed comfort, and gave everything he had. It wasn’t scripted. It wasn’t part of a campaign. It was a deeply personal act of love.
Throughout his life, Robin had a habit of showing up for people when no one was watching. He spent time with sick children, visited hospitals unannounced, and supported causes without publicity. His work with organizations like “St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital” and “Comic Relief” wasn’t about visibility. It was about showing up in real moments for real people.
That little girl’s parents only came to understand the full weight of the message after the news broke. They were heartbroken, but also grateful. In his final weeks, their daughter had received something irreplaceable, a moment of pure happiness from the very person who, unknown to them, was navigating his own private despair.
Susan Schneider Williams later revealed that Robin knew something was deeply wrong with his brain. He would say things like, “I feel like I’m going crazy,” and, “I just want to reboot my mind.” She watched him try to hold himself together, even as confusion and fear crept into the corners of his personality.
And still, he gave that video everything. A friend who later viewed the clip said it best, “It was Robin being Robin. He was hurting, but when the moment came to make someone else laugh, he just flipped the switch. Like he always did.”
For the family, that message became more than a keepsake. It became a lifeline. It was proof that even in unimaginable pain, people like Robin Williams chose love. Chose to give. Chose laughter over silence.
In one of his final personal acts, he reminded the world that true kindness doesn’t need strength, it only needs sincerity and heart.
Even when his mind was fading, his soul knew exactly what to do: find someone who was hurting, and make them laugh.
Take Them Fishing
The Battle Is Real
The demon was identified and published in a book very widely read and applied at the time. Unfortunately the wide distribution of a science of the mind that held promise of freeing man from unseen shackles clashed with the goals of the would-be enslavers of man, so the author and his work were heavily vilified by those would-be enslavers.
Implanted deeply within man is not just the suppression of the desire to find out what brought us here and what keeps us from manifesting our full potential but an aversion to learning the truth. (You may have bumped into this.) Unfortunately this aversion to learning the truth aligns perfectly with the goal of entrapment. For you cannot entrap a being who has knowledge of traps and who knows how to extricate himself from them.
Every unexplained body pain, every self-doubt, every negative thought, every strange picture that enters your head has a known source that can, and should be, eradicated.
If you would like to know more about their source and perhaps free yourself from the chains of the past, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C-bgNTzMj8
After watching that, if you would like to know more, call me.
Quote of the Day
“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” – Galileo Galilei, Astronomer (1564 – 1642)
Galileo was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath. His championing of the earth revolving around the sun was met with opposition from within the Catholic Church and from some astronomers. The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, which concluded that his opinions contradicted accepted Biblical interpretations.
(Tom: My personal opinion is that Galileo’s quote should be emblazoned in letter of fire 6 inches high in the inside of every forehead before that forehead enters a school ground.)
Katharine Ross and Sam Elliott
During the filming of “The Legacy” in 1978, Sam Elliott found himself quietly falling for his co-star Katharine Ross. Elliott, with his deep voice and rugged charm, was already a figure of intrigue on set, but it was Ross’s grace and intelligence that captured him entirely. They spent long hours together between takes, learning each other’s rhythms and building a connection that neither had anticipated. Yet, both instinctively understood that their blossoming romance needed protection from the prying eyes of the press.
In a later interview with “Vanity Fair,” Elliott revealed, “We were building something fragile. It was too new and too precious to have other people’s opinions weighing on it.” The vulnerability in his voice reflected how much those early days meant to him. For Ross, who had already experienced the harsh glare of public attention during her earlier marriages and career peaks like “The Graduate,” the need for privacy felt even more vital. She had seen too many romances wilt under the magnifying glass of Hollywood.
Their time on “The Legacy” served as a rare bubble of intimacy. On set, they maintained professionalism, careful not to fuel any gossip. Behind the scenes, quiet dinners and long conversations deepened their bond. Elliott admired Ross’s subtlety, the way she listened more than she spoke, and how she carried herself with effortless dignity. He once said in a “Parade” magazine feature, “She had this elegance about her that could stop you in your tracks. I knew early on that she was unlike anyone I had ever met.”
Ross, in turn, found herself drawn to Elliott’s authenticity. In an interview years later with “Closer Weekly,” she recalled, “Sam never tried to impress anyone. He was who he was, whether cameras were rolling or not. That kind of honesty is rare in our world.” Their connection grew steadily, shielded by a mutual understanding that true intimacy required sacred ground, far removed from flashing cameras and magazine headlines.
Friends close to the couple later shared that there was an unspoken code between Ross and Elliott during those first few months. One crew member from “The Legacy” commented anonymously to “People” magazine, “You could feel something between them, but they were careful. It was like watching two people pass notes in class—silent but obvious if you looked closely enough.”
When Elliott reflected on those early days, he often emphasized the importance of patience. He believed that the slow pace at which their relationship developed made it stronger. In a 2015 interview with “The New York Times,” he said, “There is a beauty in waiting, in letting love grow in the quiet moments instead of blasting it out to the world before it’s ready.” It was a philosophy that guided them both as they navigated a romance that was at once exhilarating and terrifying.
Their bond deepened long after “The Legacy” wrapped, proving that their caution had been well-placed. Elliott once jokingly noted that winning Ross’s heart felt like winning an Oscar he never got to accept on stage. “She was the prize. Nothing else mattered once I had her,” he told “Vanity Fair,” his voice thick with emotion.
In protecting their young love from external pressures, Katharine Ross and Sam Elliott gave themselves the gift of a foundation built on trust and quiet understanding. They were not interested in spectacle; they were invested in building something real, something that could stand the test of time.
Their story remains a reminder that sometimes, the most beautiful romances are the ones shielded from the noise, nurtured in silence, and cherished away from the spotlight.
Quote of the Day
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James, Philosopher (1842 – 1910)