Day 58/365 – On the kindness of strangers
Day 582/27/17 Today, while browsing Netflix for a few minutes, I stumbled upon an interesting documentary series: “The Kindness Diaries.” In it, an Englishman, Leon Logothetis, living in LA sets off on a quest to discover whether he can make it across the globe with just his trusty yellow motorcycle and the clothes on his […]
Day 57/365 – On immigration
Since this is a hot topic as ever, here is a throwback to the video where politics, immigration and poverty are explained – with gumballs, no less. Basically, it shows that in the long run, immigration hurts the parent nations by leaving them devoid of their brightest minds. These are the people that can lift […]
Day 56/365 – On opinions vs. judgements
Day 562/25/17 How do we form opinions on complex subjects? And more importantly, how do we keep these opinions from crossing the threshold to becoming judgments? As a person who lives in modern society, in the city of New York – no less, I can’t help but get out from under my rock at times, […]
Day 55/365 – On what’s inside
Day 552/24/17 People are complex creatures. Often the multitude of dimensions inside the person is not displayed clearly on the outside, and rightly so. We are each composed of so many layers, which were built up by genetic and environmental factors. Often, we don’t show our deepest layers right away, if at all, to others. […]
Day 54/365 – On the “if only’s”
Day 542/23/17 If only… If only you didn’t have to work for a livingIf only you didn’t have to cook to eatIf only you didn’t need to sleep for ⅔ of your dayIf only you weren’t brainwashed by societyIf only you didn’t have to fit in to be popularIf only you didn’t have to be […]
Day 53/365 – On running late
Day 532/22/17 Incidentally, this blog post is late. It wasn’t on purpose, I swear. But apparently, I’m not alone- and science is beginning to discover why some people are perpetually running late. This BBC article has some ideas about the chronically (pun intended?) late people, and the author, like me suffers from the late disorder! […]
Day 52/365 – On taking a load off
Day 522/21/17 Today, during an interactive portion of herbal school-ing, we students practiced taking a patient’s case history. During the half hour portion each person took to dish out all of our private baggage, my partner and I realized something: just the act of intimately sharing our state of mind was therapeutic in and of […]
Day 51/365 – On beauty from the inside out (part 2)
Day 512/20/17[Continued from yesterday’s post] In another sense, our physical skin will show us the state that our insides are in. When the organism is healthy, adequately deals with stress, and has good genetics, the skin is a mirror image of that. However, if one of these factors is out of balance, the skin will […]
Day 50/365 – On beauty from inside out (part 1)
Day 50 (woo-hoo!)2/19/17 What a difference our skin makes to overall impression, beauty, and confidence! It’s the first thing that people see when they look at you, and the final physical barrier between your inside and outside worlds. Having problematic, acne-prone, hyperpigmented and scarred skin is definitely an unpleasant thing to see, and worse to […]
Day 49/365 – On lalaland
Day 492/18/17 I finally did it. I watched the movie/musical that everyone was raving about, “Lalaland” (and I did it super right, in a reclining-seat almost-empty movie theater in Manhattan). Warning: spoiler alert, read the rest at risk of plot revelation! Starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, it was a feel-good classical fairy-tale romance that […]
