The Old Left/Right Brain Struggle

The color test.
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First thought..

"First thought" is "best thought" because it has not yet got covered over by all our opinions and interpretations, our hopes and fears, our likes and dislikes. It is direct perception of the world as it is. Sometimes we discover "first thought, best thought" by relaxing into the present in a very simple way.

--Jeremy Hayward, in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Vol. IV, #3

Unusual paragraph.......

This is an unusual paragraph.I'm curious as to just how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so ordinary and plain that you would think nothing was
wrong with it.In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is highly unusual though. Study it and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out. Try to do so without any coaching.

Answer in comment section.

Unhealthiest Drink in America, Delicious

2,310 calories
266 g sugar
108 g fat (64 g saturated)

Let's look at America's Worst Drink in numbers:

73: The number of ingredients that go into this milkshake.
66: The number of teaspoons of sugar this drink contains.
11: The number of Heath Bars you would have to eat to equal the number of calories found in one Baskin Robbins Large Heath Bar Shake.
8-12: The average number of minutes it takes to consume this drink.
240: The number of minutes you’d need to spend on a treadmill burning it off, running at a moderate pace.
From the book "Eat this not That"

Albert and Marilyn

When you look at this picture close up, you see Albert Einstein, but if you stand about fifteen feet away, the picture will become Marilyn Monroe.

The Secret - Planet Earth

This was a pleasant surprise in my early morning e-mail.

No Stopping Santa Fe

I thought the rolling California stop was crazy, but this beats them all. Those of you that walk or bike ride through Santa Fe beware of this crossing somewhere on Galisteo.

Multinationals make billions in profit out of growing global food crisis

We have all seen the news lately, somehow connecting the world food shortage crises and the price of oil. But the truth be told that "speculators blamed for driving up the price of basic foods as 100 million face severe hunger" The London Independent reports, that the Multinationals are making billions in profit out of growing global food crisis.

The World Bank says that 100 million more people are facing severe hunger. Yet some of the world's richest food companies are making record profits. Monsanto last month reported that its net income for the three months up to the end of February this year had more than doubled over the same period in 2007, from $543m (£275m) to $1.12bn. Its profits increased from $1.44bn to $2.22bn

. Greed, anger and ignorance, greed is the most difficult to overcome.
Read full story here

A Brave Taos Confrontation

The old story linked here is about a pair of Taos residents. They are Jeff Conant and Donald Rumsfeld. Yes that one. The article is over a year old and was written by Jeff Conant.
I smile at this man's fortitude or as he called it, adrenaline rush. His article was published in "CounterPunch" an online newsletter. "Greeting Rumsfeld in Taos"

My reason's for posting this are twofold. In the early 80's I was visiting a friend's family in Mexico City. The infant of my friend's sister happened to be critically ill and with no resources, the prognosis was devastating. Fortunately I was able to help. Fast-forward 20 years. The young man is now living and working in the US, joins the Army and is horribly wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq about a month ago. He will never be the same. He is not getting appropriate care. The second reason again in the same family, this time the mental trauma far exceeds the horrible shrapnel wounds and again this man is not receiving the proper mental health care from the Veterans Administration.

As a side note a bravo, goes to the Taos residents for this mock trial in 2006. Rumsfeld Convicted

Yes it is curious why these to stories were never picked up by the national media.
Believe me, my personal compassion for all these men is never ending.