What are we built to eat?

I just saw this video on what humans are designed to eat, by Dr. Barry Groves, a nutritional scientist from England. I found it very interesting. There is a few minutes of ad for the conference he was speaking at before his lecture.

Wise Traditions London 2010 - Barry Groves from Wise Traditions London on Vimeo.

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Productivity

Here's a link to a good article on productivity for creative people.

http://paidtoexist.com/counterintuitive-productivity/

As I have found repeatedly over time, to-do lists generally evolve into shackles for me. They start feeling oppressive and guilt-inducing. Even if they are full of relatively low levels tasks that could easily be done quickly or dispensed of without ill effect.

It does sometimes help me to view such a list as simply a reminder of things that could possibly get done that day. A list of options, not obligations. But I still have to be very careful about carrying too many undone items forward. My lists need to be short. Because I inevitably think I should be able to accomplish more in a day than I end up being able to.

Lists always seem to grow into immense, seemingly endless chores with no room for life and breathing and taking in the blessing of the moment.

This is one of the best sentences from the link, something to ask yourself as you start your day: What would I absolutely love to do and feel immensely proud of doing today?

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I can SEE!

This is one of my granddaughters. She has several rare disorders. One of them effects her vision. One of them effects her verbal abilities. Because she has been unable to tell the doctor how she is seeing, they have been unable to get a good prescription for her vision.

Last week, they finally could. She liked the lenses the doctor used to test her vision so much, she asked if she could keep them.

Her new glasses arrived today. She put them on, looked around amazed and said, "I can SEE!"

In fact, she liked them so much, she didn't even take them off in the bright sun, which normally bothers her eyes a lot. They do have prescription sunglasses on order for her, but they aren't in yet.

She sat in the chair to watch TV instead of standing right in front of it.

I have to admit, it breaks my heart that she has had to live almost nine years of her life without vision assistance, but she is now old enough and appreciates what her glasses do for her, she will at least wear them.

Yes, I made a scrapbook page about it today.

Patti

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Lovely Pineapple

Here's a photo of our lovely little pineapple. It takes patience to grow one. We started this from the top of a Maui Gold we enjoyed a few years ago. I think it's worth the wait. It is still tiny - it will take months to mature. I'll enjoy every day watching it grow.




Photo taken with an iPhoto 4S, edited in Snapseed

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Voicing the Gift

This is such a beautiful article I had to pass it on.

Voicing the Gift

Baby update

Our sweet little grandson is 3 lbs. 5 oz. today. He continues to do amazingly well for one so tiny. He's now getting one feeding a day via bottle (it wears him out a bit, but he's taking a little more via bottle every day.) I will finally get to see him in the flesh in April.




Patti

Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon, with a little help from Instragram

On my recent trip, I got to go to the Grand Canyon for the first time in my life. After the Simply Music Symposium I flew to Phoenix to visit my brother and his wife. We drove to the Grand Canyon one morning, the early afternoon checking out overlooks and having lunch, then drove back to Phoenix. It was a full day, but well worth the trip.

It was interesting to me because of course the scale is so huge it's hard to fathom, especially just from looking at photographs.  It is just amazing to think how wide the river must have been once upon a time, and the sheer power to create such an amazing place.

But in terms of sheer beauty, I think Hawaii's Waimea Canyon on Kauai has it beat. It is much smaller, of course, but the colors are more intense throughout the day. Sorry, I don't have any photos in my library - my son has taken some gorgeous photos there so I'll have to ask him if I can share when he's recovered from this nasty illness that has him in its grip.

We were hoping to be able to stop at Montezuma's Castle on the way back to Phoenix, but we were in the area about 30 minutes past closing. Oh well! It's one more thing to do on my next trip to AZ.

Patti