Be kind to yourself.
Author: Henry Barnard
I am a voracious reader and also enjoy writing. I often have a very different point of view than the popular one. I do see value in debate, and thought it might add to the public debate on controversial issues if I were to express my contrarian opinions. I also started keeping my poems recently (I've written little pieces my whole adult life but never kept any); and I've been a photographer now for over 25 years. So I will be adding an occasional poem and hopefully interesting photograph to the blog along the way, just to spice things up.
Facebook went off the rails when it started censoring people for their political comments. Instead, they should have endorsed freedom of speech, but that’s not what they chose to do. Unfortunate for them and for us. Censorship is not the American way.
Boost Your Health
Just about everyone should be doing a minimum of 18:6 intermittent fasting, if you want to safequard and/or boost your health.
Trust
How large is your “trust horizon”? It is OK for it to be small.
Leadership
Last presidential election, America showed it didn’t want a strong leader but a lame one. Hopefully, this time around, America will want strength.
Freedom from Death
When you make it to your 70s, and even earlier for some, you begin to see death as real and much more likely, even conceivably in the short term, than when you were younger and death was mere abstraction.
This realization brings with it a kind of acceptance — that your time now is indeed limited and no matter what you do, your death is unavoidable. This realization, oddly enough, introduces a strange kind of fatalism that frees one from being too concerned with death.
And that fatalism gives one a new kind of liberation from the fear of death when you completely accept the fact that you will indeed die and perhaps sooner rather than later.
Trump’s VP Choice
Trump should make Kennedy his vice president choice.
Pity the Actor
The public adores and envies famous actors, but what could be a more ridiculous use of one’s life — pretending to be someone else? Perhaps actors should be pitied, not envied, to the extent they don’t get to be themselves.
Quinoa and Buckwheat
These are not grains but seeds, and so can be sprouted. Put them in water for 24 hours, then thoroughly rinse the sprouted seeds. To cook, bring the water or vegetable broth to a boil, then on low heat for 20 minutes.
The thorough washing and then the sprouting process does two things — minimizes or eliminates the antinutrients and massively increases the nutritional value of both seeds.
This combination is a very healthy addition to a salad or can be used to make bread or pancakes.
Prostate Cancer Benefit
How is it that a diagnosis of prostate cancer can be beneficial? Well, when you get this diagnosis, it makes one take one’s mortality more seriously, and that leads to appreciate one’s current days and moments during the day that much more, for they are now more finite — no longer more or less unlimited. So one had better stay in the moment and appreciate it for all its worth.
