Tag: health
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Reflection: What I can no longer do
I find that with the loss of that youthful confidence in eternal sunshine, I cannot live a day without the grounding awareness of mortality, disease, and disability.
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Memoir: Big surprise (2022-23)
In the fall of 2022, about a year after I retired, I decided to disrupt my relationship with alcohol. Drinking had become automatic and was no longer working for me. My doctor threatened blood pressure meds if I couldn’t lower my hypertension, and cholesterol pills if I couldn’t improve my blood quality. So I decided…
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Book review: Just Breathe, by Dan Brulé
Do you need a lesson to perform what happens naturally? I’ve read two books that got me to see my basic functions differently, and as a consequence, behave differently. The first was Zen Macrobiotics by George Ohsawa. I read it as a 24-year-old and it forever disenthralled me from the standard American diet. I read…
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