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Source http://www.foodpolitics.com/2017/06/a-weekend-project-snap-stories/

Moms Rising wants your help in collecting stories about SNAP from individuals and families who have been helped by SNAP and might be affected by cuts to the program.

The stories can be any length.  Moms Rising plans to compile them into a story book to be delivered to legislators along with a petition asking them to protect SNAP.

Stories can be submitted HERE.

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Source http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/06/02/531266668/food-critic-now-halfway-through-taco-a-day-quest-will-he-fold?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=thesalt

In January, Mike Sutter of the San Antonio Express-News began his great adventure by eating at a different joint every day for a year. And six months in, we thought we’d taco bout how it’s going.

(Image credit: San Antonio Express-News)

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“When you learn to accept instead of expect, you’ll have fewer disappointments.” ~Unknown

A few months back, I was having drinks with a friend from university for the first time in a while. I sat across from her, smiling and laughing, almost in awe that we were here—here, not as in at this particular restaurant patio, but here, as in, in this moment that felt so free and so light, unbound by who we used to be.

During our first couple years of university, we were best friends, always hanging out, living together, supporting each other, swapping secrets, and creating unforgettable memories. And then over time, things changed.

Throughout university, we had found our own niches, our own interests, our own passions, and as we explored who we were and who we wanted to be, our friendship fell by the wayside.

In our last months of living together, our friendship created a lot of suffering for me. I constantly felt this weight between us, this heaviness that came from pretending that we were still the same as we were in the beginning, this heaviness of a friendship that wasn’t what it used to be.

Through my yoga practice, I found the tools I needed to free our relationship from this suffering, by shining a light on the truth and choosing something different.</p…

Source http://dailycupofyoga.com/2017/06/02/not-a-creative-person-meditation-will-change-that/

By Paul Harrison

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”  – Pablo Picasso.

Creative people. They’re the rock stars, authors, and artists of the world. They’re the ones we look up to for their imagination and their talent.

They’re special, aren’t they? Those creative artists who create the music, books, and art we turn to when we want to dream.

I remember the first time I went to La Louvre in Paris, one of the most impressive art galleries in the world. A teenage art nerd, I couldn’t help but fall in love. I ogled the works of artists like Gericault and Da Vinci. They were people born to create works of creative genius.

As an author, I dreamed that one day I might create works that would be one hundredth the creative brilliance of those paintings adorning the walls of France’s most important gallery.

But where Da Vinci and Gericault were born for creative brilliance, I was not. Most of us are not. Right?

If we were born with creative talent we would surely know about it, wouldn’t we? Talent like that couldn’t be hiding somewhere, unbeknownst to us. Could it?

But what if creative talent isn’t reserved for just the lucky few? What if creative tale…