Peanut Butter Recall Expands to 240 Products

Peanut Butter Recall Expands to 240 Products


Peanut Butter Recall Expands to 240 Products

Posted: 06 Oct 2012 01:00 PM PDT

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More than 200 peanut products have now been recalled because they may contain Salmonella bacteria, U.S. health officials say.

The recalled products all contain peanut butter made at Sunland Inc., a manufacturing company in New Mexico. Today, the Food and Drug Administration said Salmonella bacteria has been found in samples taken from the company's production plant.

Sunland recalled about 100 of its products in late September because they may have been contaminated with Salmonella. Today, the recall was been expanded to include a total of 240 products.

The recall includes all products made at Sunland's product plant since March 1, 2010, the FDA said. Of the newly recalled products, about 50 have "Best-If-Used-By" dates that have not expired, and 90 have "Best-If-Used-By" dates that have expired, but may still be in consumer's homes.

A total of 35 people from 19 states have been sickened from the outbreak, most of whom are children. They were infected with a strain of bacteria called Salmonella Bredeney.

Salmonella can cause serious illness, especially in young children and older adults, the FDA says. Symptoms include diarrhea, fever and abdominal cramps that develop 12 to 72 hours after infection.

A full list of the recalled products can be found on the FDA's site.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends consumers do not eat the recalled products, and dispose of them or return them to the store.

Pass it on: A recall of peanut products in the United States now includes more than 200 products.

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Pink Angel Embroidered Girls' Denim Shorts Recalled by Buy Buy Baby

Posted: 06 Oct 2012 12:00 PM PDT

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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Franshaw, Inc., of New York, N.Y., announced a voluntary recall of about 1,170 Pink Angel Embroidered Girls' Denim Shorts.

Hazard: Decorative studs on the denim shorts' pockets can detach and pose a choking hazard to young children.

Incidents/Injuries: Buy Buy Baby received one report of the decorative studs detaching from the shorts. No injuries have been reported.

Description: This recall involves "Pink Angel" branded embroidered denim shorts for girl infants and toddlers in sizes 12M to 4T. The shorts come with a bright pink lace belt and feature two embroidered butterflies on the left front panel with decorative studs attached to the front and rear pockets. Style numbers B91540 or B11540 can be found on the hangtag of the shorts.

Sold at: Buy Buy Baby retail locations from January 2012 to July 2012 for about $ 10 to $ 12.

Manufactured in: China

Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled denim shorts and return them to any Buy Buy Baby store to receive a full refund.

Consumer Contact: Buy Buy Baby toll-free at (877) 328-9222 any time, or visit the firm's website www.buybuybaby.com and go to the link Safety and Recalls at the bottom of the homepage for more information.

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47 Meningitis Cases Now Reported

Posted: 06 Oct 2012 11:00 AM PDT

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An outbreak of rare fungal meningitis has grown to include 47 cases in seven states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said today.

For the first time today, cases were reported in Michigan. The other states reporting cases are Tennessee, Indiana, Florida, North Carolina, Maryland and Virginia.

Tennessee has the most infected people, with 29 cases, followed by Virginia with six cases, Michigan with four cases, and Indiana with three cases.

The outbreak is linked to steroid injections produced by the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Mass. Patients affected by the outbreak received injections of the steroids in the spine as a treatment for lower back pain.

An investigation of the NECC facility found sealed vials of the drug that were contaminated with fungi, according to the Food and Drug Administration.

The NECC has voluntarily ceased distribution of its products, and shut down all operations. Recalled products from the company were shipped to 23 states.

Out of an abundance of caution, the FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging all healthcare practitioners not to use any products they may have that originated from NECC.

The type of meningitis seen in the outbreak is not transmissible from person to person, the CDC says. Symptoms of the fungal meningitis take one to four weeks to appear, and include fever, new or worsening headache, and nausea. Some patients with the condition have had strokes.

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Pets May Get the Flu More Often than Thought

Posted: 06 Oct 2012 10:00 AM PDT

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Humans aren't the only ones at risk for contracting the flu this season: our furry friends can fall ill from the disease as well.

In fact, flu infections in cats and dogs may be much more common than thought, experts say. And pets can catch the flu from their owners, research finds.

One study of cat blood samples found about 30 percent of cats in Ohio had been infected with seasonal flu, and 20 percent had been infected with the H1N1 flu strain that caused the 2009 pandemic.

Researchers have known since the 1970s that cats can get the flu, and since 2000 that dogs could get it, but detailed reports of such cases have been rare, said Christiane Loehr, an associate professor at Oregon State University's College of Veterinary Medicine.

Loehr and colleagues are conducting a larger study of blood samples from cats across the United States to pin down exactly how often cats get the flu.

The results so far suggest there was a dramatic increase in cat flu infections after 2009, Loehr said.

It's not possible to know how sick the cats in the Ohio study were — the blood samples only show that they were infected at some point. It's also not clear whether these cats caught the flu from their owners, from other cats or animals, Loehr said.

But when human-to-pet transmission happens, researchers worry not only about the health of the pets, but also about the evolution of the virus. A flu virus that hops across species has the potential to undergo changes to its genetic code that could make it more virulent and dangerous to people.

"All viruses can mutate, but the influenza virus raises special concern," because it can change large segments of its DNA fairly easily, Loehr said. "In terms of hosts and mutations, who's to say that the cat couldn't be the new pig? We'd just like to know more about this."

So far, the researchers have confirmed 13 cases in which a pet cat or dog caught the pandemic H1N1 flu strain from a person.

One of the first known cases occurred in Oregon in 2009. An 8-year-old cat became ill with flu and developed pneumonia after catching the disease from its owner, who was eventually hospitalized with H1N1.

In another case, a 10-year-old cat with a fever and breathing problems was found to have pandemic H1N1, and died after four days. The cat likely caught the flu from a child in the house who had been sick the week before. Four other cats in the house also showed signs of respiratory disease, but recovered.

Whether sick pets can transmit the flu virus back to people is not known, Loehr said.

Animals infected with the flu develop symptoms similar to those in people, including breathing problems, a running nose or eyes, and fatigue.

To protect pets, Loehr advised that owners get the seasonal flu shot, which will reduce the chances of catching flu and spreading it to others — both people and pets.

People who become sick with the flu should take the same precautions with their pets as they would with other people, such as minimizing contact with them, Loehr said.

Because of the large increase in flu in cats after 2009, the researchers are also investigating whether the pandemic strain of H1N1 is particularly adept at infecting felines, Loehr said.

Pass it on: Flu infections in cats and dogs may be much more common than thought.

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/6/2012

Posted: 06 Oct 2012 12:13 PM PDT

"If you keep thinking of all the way in which others cheated you, fought with you, degraded you or angered you, your heart will forever be full of hatred. Learn to let go, and be happy."
 
~The Buddha


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The 5 Stages of Handling Deep Emotions

Posted: 06 Oct 2012 12:38 PM PDT

Deep emotions can be difficult to deal with. 

But I have good news for you. 

Even the worst emotions aren't you, and they aren't yours.

They are experiences that make us stronger, more open more compassionate and more loving.

If we can embrace them we can embrace anything.

Several years ago my son and I were fishing in Northern Wisconsin.

We were trolling by one of our favorite spots and I had a strike.

I pride myself on being able to tell if I have hooked the bottom, a tree or branch, or have a fish.

This time felt different, it wasn't a snag but didn't feel like a fish either. It seemed to be fighting and whatever it was it was really big.

It took over five minutes of fairly heavy struggle and winding before I caught a glance of my catch. It was a snapping turtle perhaps fifteen inches in diameter. It had taken my minnow and was hooked.

My light spinning rod bent as it never had before. I was not used to landing anything this big or this heavy.

I had to pay close attention. I had to keep the line tight and above all I had to use every skill I had learned over years of fishing not to lose this turtle.

I didn't want the turtle. I wanted to land it and let it go. I wanted to unhook it safely and send it on its way.

I wanted to be able to deal with something much more difficult than a fish and I wanted my son and me to have the story of the day we caught the big turtle.

Our net wasn't really up to the task but we managed it. We worked together and landed the huge snapper into the boat with great fanfare and excitement.

We let this old terrapin loose on the shore by our cottage. He swam deep and fast to his freedom as we watched and talked about our adventure.

The 5 Stages to Handling Deep! Emotion s

Landing this turtle reminded me of a few years earlier when I had struggled with deep emotions within myself. I had met, landed and released self hatred, shame and self doubt.

Each of these showed up in my life right on time, exactly when I didn't want them. Each had a very different flavor and went through the same stages I had with the turtle.

The stages are as follows:

1. Deeply Moved But Blind, Deaf and Dumb

I didn't know that I had a turtle, but I knew I had something and it was different than anything I ever had before.

Deep emotions take us over. 

They work so far below our surface that it may take quite a while for us to discover them. They can turn up the juice on our other emotions. They can have us be incredibly uncomfortable, ill at ease, negative or anxious. All of this results before you get a glimpse of them.

Notice the differences in how you react, how you interact, how important things seem to you. Any extreme change in your daily life might be you having hooked a deep emotion or been hooked by one.

If you notice such changes get curious. Incredibly curious with both your mind and you body. What is going on?

Ask that question often and consistently.

2. First Glimpse of the Monster

When I first saw the turtle I understood why I had been confused about what I had on the line.

When you first glimpse these nasty emotions that doesn't mean that they just arrived. That means that you have just noticed them.

Notice anything and everything you can about them. You may be tempted to turn away or to resist but try not to. Look as deeply and clearly as you can. The sooner you figure out what you are dealing with the better.

You will not master these emotions. They are to be experienced. They are to be felt and to be embra! ced and loved. 

They are not yours and they are not you. They are passing through and they are an indication that you are daring to enter the depths of who you really are. They may be horrible and scary but they are a good and positive sign. They may have been having their way with you for a long time and you are becoming aware of them.

A little awareness goes a long way. Out of any interaction with emotions in the depth you will be wiser more loving and have much more self knowledge. You will join an elite group of people who are exploring their depths and learning to live consciously.

It is very important that at this stage, as you become aware of a very deep emotion, that you take good care of yourself.

Eat well, get plenty of sleep and lovin'.

You are in for a wrestling match and you need to be in the best shape possible. My first dive into my depths had me lose forty pounds in a matter of weeks. I had no interest in eating. Life didn't look the same. It wasn't the same.

Today I am leaner and healthier for this experience. It was way worth it and I wouldn't have missed it for anything.

3. Exploring What to Do With This Particular Emotion

Once you know what the emotion is you get to find out what to do with it.

We decided to try and land the turtle and let it go. This is always a good plan. Bring the emotion as close as you can and invite it in, though your tendency may be to resist it.

Remain curious and observe. Look, listen and feel continually. 

What does the emotion want with you. How is it influencing you. What thoughts does it inspire? What aspects of you does it resonate with and which parts of you resist.

It is there for a reason. 

It is there to enhance those parts of you that you will need to live and explore in the depths. Get to know it and you will get to know yourself at the same time.

4. Landing the Emotion and Surrendering to It

As you get to know the emotion you can surrender to it. Identify with it. Let yourself melt into it. 

Continue to take great care of yourself and your new found buddy. Obey the emotion. Do what it says. Feel what it offers for you to feel no matter how wonderful or awful or unnatural it seems.

You are in for the ride of your life as the emotion begins to direct your life taking you on a tour of yourself and your life that will result in degrees of clarity and peace not available t the meek.

Surrendering to the emotion may at first seem to threaten your life. It does. But it doesn't threaten your real life just the way you have been living. The new life this wild emotion reveals to you will have less illusion, be more truthful and you will be more fully you.

In any of these steps it can be very useful to have the support of someone who has been through this terrain in themselves.

It may even become necessary to take medication but know that medication may provide a short break or intermission but is not a solution.

You don't need a solution because there is nothing really wrong.

5. Freeing the Emotion

When we were landing the turtle we were alive, awake and alert. We were at risk and we were very focused and in the flow.

When you are meeting these deep emotions you bring out resources that daily life just doesn't call for. You discover new resources, powerful aspects of yourself and the dynamics of the depths.

Letting go of the emotion can be difficult. 

Early on you didn't want anything to do with such ugly emotions, but once you get to know them you love them and the presence that they bring out of you. But still you must let them go. You must return to the new life they have opened for you.

You may experience a decrease in energy ! and atte ntion. You may need to rest and you may feel that you have lost your edge. Feel free to rest. These emotions travel together. If you have experience one you may well experience others. We didn't decide when the turtle would strike or what would happen once he did.

In your depths these emotions swim freely. They know you much better than you know yourself and they always show up on time in exactly the way they should.

Getting to know yourself is a lot about meeting these monsters of the depths and learning to live with them. They will teach you to trust the process of life, to embrace what is and to flow. They are your best friends and often pose as dangerous enemies.

You can't get to know yourself without them.

May you live an interesting life and may you get to know these allies from your depths. Feel free to ask for help and make the best of this fabulous ride of getting to know yourself.

Written on 10/06/2012 by Jerry Stocking. Jerry is a non-guru who will twist your idea of reality on its head and leave you laughing. His mischievous smile will tell you right away he has found the lighter side of spirituality. Improve your life with spiritual tools and mindsets- visit Lightening Up and Letting Go, his blog on modern spirituality.Photo Credit: Stew Dean
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Bob Thurman: We can be Buddhas

Posted: 06 Oct 2012 06:00 AM PDT

Thank you. And I feel like this whole evening has been very amazing to me. I feel it's sort of like the Vimalakirti Sutra, an ancient work from ancient India in which the Buddha appears at the beginning and a whole bunch of people come to see him from the biggest city in the area, Vaishali, and they bring some sort of jeweled parasols to make an offering to him. All the young people, actually, from the city. The old fogeys don't come because they're mad at Buddha, because when he came to their city he accepted — he always accepts the first invitation that comes to him, from whoever it is, and the local geisha, a movie-star sort of person, raced the elders of the city in a chariot and invited him first.

So he was hanging out with the movie star, and of course they were grumbling: "He's supposed to be religious and all this. What's he doing over there at Amrapali's house with all his 500 monks," and so on. They were all grumbling, and so they boycotted him. They wouldn't go listen to him. But the young people all came. And they brought this kind of a jeweled parasol, and they put it on the ground. And as soon as they had laid all these, all their big stack of these jeweled parasols that they used to carry in ancient India, he performed a kind of special effect which made it into a giant planetarium, the wonder of the universe. Everyone looked in that, and they saw in there the total interconnectedness of all life in all universes.

And of course, in the Buddhist cosmos there are millions and billions of planets with human life on it, and enlightened beings can see the life on all the other planets. So they don't — when they look out and they see those lights that you showed in the sky — they don't just see sort of pieces of matter burning or rocks or flames or gases exploding. They actually see landscapes and human beings and gods and dragons and serpent beings and goddesses and things like that.

He made that special effect at the beginning to get everyone to think about interconnection and interconnectedness and how everything in life was totally interconnected. And then Leilei — I know his other name — told us about interconnection, and how we're all totally interconnected here, and how we've all known each other. And of course in the Buddhist universe, we've already done this already billions of times in many, many lifetimes in the past. And I didn't give the talk always. You did, and we had to watch you, and so forth. And we're all still trying to, I guess we're all trying to become TEDsters, if that's a modern form of enlightenment. I guess so. Because in a way, if a TEDster relates to all the interconnectedness of all the computers and everything, it's the forging of a mass awareness, of where everybody can really know everything that's going on everywhere in the planet.

And therefore it will become intolerable — what compassion is, is where it will become intolerable for us, totally intolerable that we sit here in comfort and in pleasure and enjoying the life of the mind or whatever it is, and there are people who are absolutely riddled with disease and they cannot have a bite of food and they have no place, or they're being brutalized by some terrible person and so forth. It just becomes intolerable. With all of us knowing everything, we're kind of forced by technology to become Buddhas or something, to become enlightened.

And of course, we all will be deeply disappointed when we do. Because we think that because we are kind of tired of what we do, a little bit tired, we do suffer. We do enjoy our misery in a certain way. We distract ourselves from our misery by running around somewhere, but basically we all have this common misery that we are sort of stuck inside our skins and everyone else is out there. And occasionally we get together with another person stuck in their skin and the two of us enjoy each other, and each one tries to get out of their own, and ultimately it fails of course, and then we're back into this thing.

Because our egocentric perception — from the Buddha's point of view, misperception — is that all we are is what is inside our skin. And it's inside and outside, self and other, and other is all very different. And everyone here is unfortunately carrying that habitual perception, a little bit, right? You know, someone sitting next to you in a seat — that's OK because you're in a theater, but if you were sitting on a park bench and someone came up and sat that close to you, you'd freak out. What do they want from me? Like, who's that? And so you wouldn't sit that close to another person because of your notion that it's you versus the universe — that's all Buddha discovered. Because that cosmic basic idea that it is us all alone, each of us, and everyone else is different, then that puts us in an impossible situation, doesn't it? Who is it who's going to get enough attention from the world? Who's going to get enough out of the world? Who's not going to be overrun by an infinite number of other beings — if you're different from all the other beings?

So where compassion comes is where you surprisingly discover you lose yourself in some way: through art, through meditation, through understanding, through knowledge actually, knowing that you have no such boundary, knowing your interconnectedness with other beings. You can experience yourself as the other beings when you see through the delusion of being separated from them. When you do that, you're forced to feel what they feel. Luckily, they say — I still am not sure — but luckily, they say that when you reach that point because some people have said in the Buddhist literature, they say, "Oh who would really want to be compassionate? How awful! I'm so miserable on my own. My head is aching. My bones are aching. I go from birth to death. I'm never satisfied. I never have enough, even if I'm a billionaire, I don't have enough. I need a hundred billion." So I'm like that. Imagine if I had to feel even a hundred other people's suffering. It would be terrible.

But apparently, this is a strange paradox of life. When you're no longer locked in yourself, and as the wisdom or the intelligence or the scientific knowledge of the nature of the world, that enables you to let your mind spread out, and empathize, and enhance the basic human ability of empathizing, and realizing that you are the other being, somehow by that opening, you can see the deeper nature of life. And you can, you get away from this terrible iron circle of I, me, me, mine, like the Beatles used to sing.

You know, we really learned everything in the '60s. Too bad nobody ever woke up to it, and they've been trying to suppress it since then. I, me, me, mine. It's like a perfect song, that song. A perfect teaching. But when we're relieved from that, we somehow then become interested in all the other beings. And we feel ourselves differently. It's totally strange. It's totally strange. The Dalai Lama always likes to say — he says that when you give birth in your mind to the idea of compassion, it's because you realize that you yourself and your pains and pleasures are finally too small a theater for your intelligence. It's really too boring whether you feel like this or like that, or what, you know — and the more you focus on how you feel, by the way, the worse it gets. Like, even when you're having a good time, when is the good time over? The good time is over when you think, how good is it? And then it's never good enough.

I love that Leilei said that the way of helping those who are suffering badly on the physical plane or on other planes is having a good time, doing it by having a good time. I think the Dalai Lama should have heard that. I wish he'd been there to hear that. He once told me — he looked kind of sad; he worries very much about the haves and have-nots. He looked a little sad, because he said, well, a hundred years ago, they went and took everything away from the haves. You know, the big communist revolutions, Russia and China and so forth. They took it all away by violence, saying they were going to give it to everyone, and then they were even worse. They didn't help at all.

So what could possibly change this terrible gap that has opened up in the world today? And so then he looks at me. So I said, "Well, you know, you're all in this yourself. You teach: it's generosity," was all I could think of. What is virtue? But of course, what you said, I think the key to saving the world, the key to compassion is that it is more fun. It should be done by fun. Generosity is more fun. That's the key. Everybody has the wrong idea. They think Buddha was so boring, and they're so surprised when they meet Dalai Lama and he's fairly jolly. Even though his people are being genocided — and believe me, he feels every blow on every old nun's head, in every Chinese prison. He feels it. He feels the way they are harvesting yaks nowadays. I won't even say what they do. But he feels it. And yet he's very jolly. He's extremely jolly.

Because when you open up like that, then you can't just — what good does it do to add being miserable with others' misery? You have to find some vision where you see how hopeful it is, how it can be changed. Look at that beautiful thing Chiho showed us. She scared us with the lava man. She scared us with the lava man is coming, then the tsunami is coming, but then finally there were flowers and trees, and it was very beautiful. It's really lovely.

So, compassion means to feel the feelings of others, and the human being actually is compassion. The human being is almost out of time. The human being is compassion because what is our brain for? Now, Jim's brain is memorizing the almanac. But he could memorize all the needs of all the beings that he is, he will, he did. He could memorize all kinds of fantastic things to help many beings. And he would have tremendous fun doing that.

So the first person who gets happy, when you stop focusing on the self-centered situation of, how happy am I, where you're always dissatisfied — as Mick Jagger told us. You never get any satisfaction that way. So then you decide, "Well, I'm sick of myself. I'm going to think of how other people can be happy. I'm going to get up in the morning and think, what can I do for even one other person, even a dog, my dog, my cat, my pet, my butterfly?" And the first person who gets happy when you do that, you don't do anything for anybody else, but you get happier, you yourself, because your whole perception broadens and you suddenly see the whole world and all of the people in it. And you realize that this — being with these people — is the flower garden that Chiho showed us. It is Nirvana. And my time is up.

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Give up on making life itself a project

Posted: 05 Oct 2012 09:00 PM PDT

I enjoy projects.

Meaning, I like to try something new, something I've never done before, which entails finding out what the thing is all about, how it works, what's necessary to do it, and then learning from my doing. I might find that I don't enjoy this new activity as much as I thought I would. Or, that it's even more satisfying than I expected.

For example, early in the summer I decided to try longboarding, skateboarding without the tricks, basically.

My longboarding has been the subject of various posts in a "skateboarding" section of my other blog.) I really enjoy this new life project. It's fun, great exercise, pleasingly challenging, and risky without being death-defying.

Much earlier in my life, graduating from college was a central project. Then, raising a child. LIke everybody, I had numerous projects going on at one time, such as "succeed at career," "stay healthy," "be a good husband and father."

Plus, for most of my life, "understand what life is all about." This was the spiritual side of me, the mystical side, the ultimate-reality revealing side. 

I wanted to know.

Not just about something. About everything. I also wanted to be. Not just myself. But some form of all-pervading cosmic consciousness. These goals sound grandiose to me now. For many years, though -- over thirty-five -- they were my overarching life project.

Overarching, because religious, spiritual, and mystical pursuits often are viewed as the most important aspect in a practitioner's life. After all, they promise to transform life, perhaps along with a hypothesized afterlife, through salvation, enlightenment, self/god realization, or whatever other super-goal a person embraces.

I don't have that sort of project anymore. Sometimes this feels like a loss. Even after I entered my churchless phase (I began this blog in 2004), I kept on searching for a non-dogmatic path to higher truth and understanding.

I'd experiment with different meditation approaches, look into different philosophies, ponder different ways of looking upon ultimate reality. I still was attracted, maybe even addicted, to having a life project that was capable of transforming not just part of my life, but the whole damn thing.

It was kind of like one part of me was building a house, doing all the little things necessary to accomplish this, cutting wood, hammering nails, putting in plumbing, etc., while another part was looking for a way to live without a house -- or to live in a completely different sort of house.

For me, and I think this is a common flaw of overarching life projects, the end result was a split in my energy and attention. I didn't recognize this for most of the thirty-plus years I was focused on my Grand Spiritual Project That Would Completely Change Everything (GSPTWCCE).

But now that I've given up on that GSPTWCCE, I realize that simply living life is much more satisfying and wiser than living life at the same time as you're trying to find a whole different sort of life, a hypothesized enlightened life, god-realized life, or salvific (saved/redeemed) life.

Enjoying my longboard is good enough for me now. Maintaining our property is good enough for me now. Spending time with friends, family, and our dogs is good enough for me now. Blogging is good enough for me now.

In short, I'm content with having lots of little projects which comprise my life. What I do each day, what my goals are for each day, what gives meaning to me each day. 

I'm no longer trying to make my life as a whole into something other than what it is. I don't feel a need for a Life Improvement Project that encompasses my entire life, just as I'm no longer interested in knowing what a supposed ultimate reality is which encompasses the entire cosmos.

I guess I now worship a god of small things.

Except I don't believe in god. Or that anything is really small. I get huge enjoyment from doing things I used to think were insignificant. Like reading the newest issue of People magazine in a hot bath while sipping a glass of red wine.

Ooh, great idea. Got to go...  

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