It is never too late to start
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The seasons are a-changing, as are the lives of The Minimalists! We’re moving to a new city, working on some new projects, and hitting the road again.
We recently published our “Fall Into Minimalism 2017” newsletter with a slew of minimalism news. If that newsletter missed your inbox, you can find all the updates here.
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Source http://www.theminimalists.com/fall2017/
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The seasons are a-changing, as are the lives of The Minimalists! We’re moving to a new city, working on some new projects, and hitting the road again.
We recently published our “Fall Into Minimalism 2017” newsletter with a slew of minimalism news. If that newsletter missed your inbox, you can find all the updates here.
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Source https://www.foodpolitics.com/2017/09/weekend-reading-carey-gilliams-whitewash/
Carey Gilliam. Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science. Island Press, 2017.
I did a blurb for this book (only the last sentence is on the back cover):
Whitewash, says Carey Gilliam, is what Monsanto, Monsanto-paid scientists, and the Monsanto-influenced EPA are trying to do for the herbicide glyphosate (“Roundup”)—make it appear benign in the face of evidence that glyphosate may be carcinogenic, strongly promotes weed resistance, and causes genetically modified crops to require even greater use of toxic chemicals.
Gilliam’s deep dive into this industry’s manipulation of science gives us even more reasons to advocate for organic and sustainable agricultural systems.
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Source https://www.foodpolitics.com/2017/09/weekend-reading-carey-gilliams-whitewash/
Carey Gilliam. Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science. Island Press, 2017.
I did a blurb for this book (only the last sentence is on the back cover):
Whitewash, says Carey Gilliam, is what Monsanto, Monsanto-paid scientists, and the Monsanto-influenced EPA are trying to do for the herbicide glyphosate (“Roundup”)—make it appear benign in the face of evidence that glyphosate may be carcinogenic, strongly promotes weed resistance, and causes genetically modified crops to require even greater use of toxic chemicals.
Gilliam’s deep dive into this industry’s manipulation of science gives us even more reasons to advocate for organic and sustainable agricultural systems.
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“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” ~Jack Canfield
Imagine with me for a second. You wake up, roll over, and blindly reach to hit your alarm to start the routine of the day. Make the same thing for breakfast. Maybe go to a new coffee place…nah. Same place. Go to work on the same route to the same job you’ve been at for years.
After a long day of struggling through your daily responsibilities, you come home tired and slink back into the comfort of your TV and couch. Watch the same shows. Pass out. Repeat. At long last, the respite of the weekend finally comes. You go to the same bars, and hang out with the same friends, and before you know it, it’s Sunday night. Time to repeat the whole process over again.
Somehow down the road, you begin to feel like everything turned into too much of a routine. Nothing new happens anymore, and you can’t even remember the last time you really grew or progressed at something new—the last time you felt that burning sensation in your heart, that incomparable feeling of venturing into something new and scary.
That was me.
When I was a kid, I remember having this recurring nightmare. I was in prison, and my prison job was making license plates. That was my job for…
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“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” ~Jack Canfield
Imagine with me for a second. You wake up, roll over, and blindly reach to hit your alarm to start the routine of the day. Make the same thing for breakfast. Maybe go to a new coffee place…nah. Same place. Go to work on the same route to the same job you’ve been at for years.
After a long day of struggling through your daily responsibilities, you come home tired and slink back into the comfort of your TV and couch. Watch the same shows. Pass out. Repeat. At long last, the respite of the weekend finally comes. You go to the same bars, and hang out with the same friends, and before you know it, it’s Sunday night. Time to repeat the whole process over again.
Somehow down the road, you begin to feel like everything turned into too much of a routine. Nothing new happens anymore, and you can’t even remember the last time you really grew or progressed at something new—the last time you felt that burning sensation in your heart, that incomparable feeling of venturing into something new and scary.
That was me.
When I was a kid, I remember having this recurring nightmare. I was in prison, and my prison job was making license plates. That was my job for…
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“Be gentle first with yourself if you wish to be gentle with others.” ~Lama Yeshe
It was October, 2012. The U.S. Presidential Election was around the corner. I was paying an unaccustomed amount of attention to political news on TV and to political discussion sites online. At one site in particular, I was eager to become part of the community, to make a good impression, to build a reputation.
To put it mildly, that didn’t work out well.
One evening I was watching an interview with a politician whose name I recognized, but I didn’t know much about him. I thought he was making some cogent points about the topic at hand. I went to the online discussion site to see whether anyone had mentioned this interview yet, and when I found no one had, I hastily composed a post praising the politician and suggesting that others should watch the interview.
The reaction was fast and fierce. How could I have anything nice to say about this nincompoop, who was renowned far and wide as a hypocrite? Where was my sense? Where were my ideals? Where was my head? What did I think I was doing there in the first place?
I was mortified. I, who had always prided myself on intellectual acumen, had totally failed to do my homework. I hadn’t done even the most cursory research to …
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“Be gentle first with yourself if you wish to be gentle with others.” ~Lama Yeshe
It was October, 2012. The U.S. Presidential Election was around the corner. I was paying an unaccustomed amount of attention to political news on TV and to political discussion sites online. At one site in particular, I was eager to become part of the community, to make a good impression, to build a reputation.
To put it mildly, that didn’t work out well.
One evening I was watching an interview with a politician whose name I recognized, but I didn’t know much about him. I thought he was making some cogent points about the topic at hand. I went to the online discussion site to see whether anyone had mentioned this interview yet, and when I found no one had, I hastily composed a post praising the politician and suggesting that others should watch the interview.
The reaction was fast and fierce. How could I have anything nice to say about this nincompoop, who was renowned far and wide as a hypocrite? Where was my sense? Where were my ideals? Where was my head? What did I think I was doing there in the first place?
I was mortified. I, who had always prided myself on intellectual acumen, had totally failed to do my homework. I hadn’t done even the most cursory research to …
Source http://www.thefitbits.com/2017/09/coed-y-brenin-womens-weekend-temtiwr.html
I started writing this post tucked up in my van, wrapped in a blanket, wearing two jumpers, pjs and slipper boots, with a single measure of red wine in a tiny bottle by my side.
The sun had set and the rain was hammering down, as it had been all day. All weekend in fact. It always sounds worse when it’s hammering on the roof three feet over your head, but I find it strangely comforting.
I had the best adventure at Coed y Brenin last weekend – for so many reasons. It was the first ever Temtiwr women’s mountain bike weekend at the trail centre (named after one of the trails), organised jointly by Welsh Cycling and Beics Brenin, Infinite Exposures, Natural Resources Wales and HSBC Breeze.
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Source http://www.thefitbits.com/2017/09/coed-y-brenin-womens-weekend-temtiwr.html
I started writing this post tucked up in my van, wrapped in a blanket, wearing two jumpers, pjs and slipper boots, with a single measure of red wine in a tiny bottle by my side.
The sun had set and the rain was hammering down, as it had been all day. All weekend in fact. It always sounds worse when it’s hammering on the roof three feet over your head, but I find it strangely comforting.
I had the best adventure at Coed y Brenin last weekend – for so many reasons. It was the first ever Temtiwr women’s mountain bike weekend at the trail centre (named after one of the trails), organised jointly by Welsh Cycling and Beics Brenin, Infinite Exposures, Natural Resources Wales and HSBC Breeze.
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100 specialty fitness retail locations to be united under new brand name
COTTAGE GROVE Wis. (Sept. 13, 2017) — Johnson Health Tech Retail, Inc., the largest specialty fitness r…
The Club Industry staff was not involved in the creation of this content.
100 specialty fitness retail locations to be united under new brand name
COTTAGE GROVE Wis. (Sept. 13, 2017) — Johnson Health Tech Retail, Inc., the largest specialty fitness r…
Men have long been told they need to be strong, tough, and emotionally reserved to be “manly.” Maybe those qualities aren’t necessarily negative, but they can still be damaging—look at phrases like “real men don’t cry” and “man up.” Those don’t exactly set great examples.
This is why we’re so excited about Lululemon’s new “Strength to Be” campaign. By highlighting a diverse group of men who are strong in nontraditional ways, Lululemon is breaking down stereotypes and proving there is no standard or measurement for strength. We’re all physically and mentally strong in different ways.
“Strength to Be” is all about honoring individuality and empowering men to be themselves, whoever that may be. It’s a big step toward redefining what fitness success looks like for men—because it’s more than looking ripped and acting tough. And since we buy into the identities brands sell more often than we’d like to admit, it’s not just a big step—it’s an important one.
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Men have long been told they need to be strong, tough, and emotionally reserved to be “manly.” Maybe those qualities aren’t necessarily negative, but they can still be damaging—look at phrases like “real men don’t cry” and “man up.” Those don’t exactly set great examples.
This is why we’re so excited about Lululemon’s new “Strength to Be” campaign. By highlighting a diverse group of men who are strong in nontraditional ways, Lululemon is breaking down stereotypes and proving there is no standard or measurement for strength. We’re all physically and mentally strong in different ways.
“Strength to Be” is all about honoring individuality and empowering men to be themselves, whoever that may be. It’s a big step toward redefining what fitness success looks like for men—because it’s more than looking ripped and acting tough. And since we buy into the identities brands sell more often than we’d like to admit, it’s not just a big step—it’s an important one.
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The other day, my friend Jemma called me all upset. Another mom had made a comment about her son’s hair and about her parenting style being soooo relaxed. (I’m not a mum, but one thing I do know is that you NEVER comment on another mum’s method of child-rearing!) Jemma was reeling. And I was surprised it bothered her this much.
I said, “Why are you so upset about this?”
All she could answer was, “Tom doesn’t need a haircut! What does she know about anything? Nothing, that’s what!”
I knew this probably had nothing to do with Tom. Or his haircut. It was a little power play between two women who were both probably having an off afternoon.
These kinds of comments come at us all the time—from friends, siblings, colleagues. How do we adopt the mindset and behaviors of people who don’t care so much about what other people do, think, and say? Here are some habits that serve them (that we can nab too):
It’s impossible to obsess over what people think about you when you simply don’t…
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The other day, my friend Jemma called me all upset. Another mom had made a comment about her son’s hair and about her parenting style being soooo relaxed. (I’m not a mum, but one thing I do know is that you NEVER comment on another mum’s method of child-rearing!) Jemma was reeling. And I was surprised it bothered her this much.
I said, “Why are you so upset about this?”
All she could answer was, “Tom doesn’t need a haircut! What does she know about anything? Nothing, that’s what!”
I knew this probably had nothing to do with Tom. Or his haircut. It was a little power play between two women who were both probably having an off afternoon.
These kinds of comments come at us all the time—from friends, siblings, colleagues. How do we adopt the mindset and behaviors of people who don’t care so much about what other people do, think, and say? Here are some habits that serve them (that we can nab too):
It’s impossible to obsess over what people think about you when you simply don’t…
D.C’.s Capital Area Food Bank is part of a growing trend to move toward healthier options in food assistance, because many in the population it serves suffer from high blood pressure and diabetes.
(Image credit: Courtesy of Capital Area Food Bank)
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D.C’.s Capital Area Food Bank is part of a growing trend to move toward healthier options in food assistance, because many in the population it serves suffer from high blood pressure and diabetes.
(Image credit: Courtesy of Capital Area Food Bank)
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Source http://www.sonima.com/food/health-nutrition/seasonal-eating/
With fall upon us, farmers’ markets will soon be filled with more varietals of apples and other seasonal favorites found in numerous delicious dishes that we make only this time of year. But there are more reasons than nostalgia and cravings to favor in-season produce whenever the weather changes. Doing so is also good for you and our planet. So although you can buy pineapple from the grocery store in September, I strongly encourage you to focus on autumn’s harvest right now.
According to Chinese medicine, each season is associated with different elements and foods that will strengthen your health. For example, fall is linked to the element metal as well as the lungs, respiration, and skin. As the cooler weather sets in, we are more susceptible to dryness―dry throats, noses, and chapped lips. To keep our bodies from becoming too dry, the Chinese advocate eating more sour flavors, which include apples, grapefruit, and lemons. They also encourage eating more cooked foods after the September equinox. Many of us naturally make this transition from salads to soups and stews, although we may not realize that it’s to help support the immune system and fend off colds and flu.
Not only does eating according to the calendar strengthen our bodies, but also, the Chinese believe, we’re better equip to digest these foods at this time. Seasonal foods, they add, may also help us be more in harmony with nature. It may sound a little out there, bu…
Source http://www.sonima.com/food/health-nutrition/seasonal-eating/
With fall upon us, farmers’ markets will soon be filled with more varietals of apples and other seasonal favorites found in numerous delicious dishes that we make only this time of year. But there are more reasons than nostalgia and cravings to favor in-season produce whenever the weather changes. Doing so is also good for you and our planet. So although you can buy pineapple from the grocery store in September, I strongly encourage you to focus on autumn’s harvest right now.
According to Chinese medicine, each season is associated with different elements and foods that will strengthen your health. For example, fall is linked to the element metal as well as the lungs, respiration, and skin. As the cooler weather sets in, we are more susceptible to dryness―dry throats, noses, and chapped lips. To keep our bodies from becoming too dry, the Chinese advocate eating more sour flavors, which include apples, grapefruit, and lemons. They also encourage eating more cooked foods after the September equinox. Many of us naturally make this transition from salads to soups and stews, although we may not realize that it’s to help support the immune system and fend off colds and flu.
Not only does eating according to the calendar strengthen our bodies, but also, the Chinese believe, we’re better equip to digest these foods at this time. Seasonal foods, they add, may also help us be more in harmony with nature. It may sound a little out there, bu…