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Science, Healthy Lifestyles, Global Warming – Mandarins in Manhattan

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Throughout the expansion of people around the earth the movements have generally spread east and west out of Africa, and most have stayed in the wide central middle climate zones between both poles where the science shows that healthy lifestyles are easier if you can grow crops all year. Thus in the west it was that as people migrated to the north from Egypt they found winter storms could happen in Athens or Rome. And thus developed the need for storage for the times when science says if the average temperature falls below 40 F crops will not grow.


And after the times of Alexander the Great, the creation of his majestic port at the mouth of the life giving Nile made possible increasing crops in ever fertile Egypt to soon become the bread basket for Athens and then Rome. And even before Athens back into the far reaches of time, people had been forced southward in Europe and all northern regions of earth, at both poles really. The cave drawings in southern France also show reindeer bones at layers when England was covered in ice.


We have moved north and south several times. And with our human help, it is rather speeding up this time, as the flowing water out of expanding holes in glaciers shows from Greenland and Canada to the Antarctic. Soon the always frozen seas of northern Canada will be open to traffic, the long sought northwest passage which actually is a huge short cut for trade between Europe and Asia. All win with lower costs and quickly delivery in this case. There is that issue about the sea rising, which may create Dutch type cities and the need to adapt to what ever is coming at us.


If New Orleans needs 10 feet high dikes, let us build them. In some areas less precious or historic, maybe we need to move to high ground also. But what is coming is the northward ability of crops, from Changsha Mandarin Oranges and hardy banana trees up in west coast Canada, to grizzly bears mating with polar bears as they reach the Arctic Ocean, where small trees are starting to poke up from the permafrost. And we now have other burning bushes to put out while California crops and vineyard dry out as we find the Sonoran desert moving northward, burning bushes by bush.


Meanwhile Manhattan will sonn grow Mandarin oranges as now in the frost zones of Manchuria. And as grizzly bears have now reached the Arctic Ocean, we in Canada now have a new worry: what do you call a baby bear, still white but with a black mouth, who had a Grizzly for a daddy, and a Polar kind of mom? Change would be good.

Science, Healthy Lifestyles, Global Warming – Yes, Canada Has Bananas

Friday, June 11th, 2010

As science tells us, if there is any hope of us or our grand children living healthy lifestyles, we need to look at changing realities and do as peoples have done since time immemorial. If every factory in your town is slated to be closed down, vote with your feet if you must, to get to where the future is happening.


If you live in an old industry town and are worried that your job is on the way to China, then hit the books, study, and get north and west, where the resource needs are. As the wisdom and knowledge builds, we know we need to adjust our current ways.


We need to begin to reverse much of our profligate and foolish ways. It creates an unstable economy when America purchases and then borrows from China to buy oil from the unstable middle east. There is a future for you in any technical degree you get, or in skills training, or how to help Grizzly Bears and Polar bears get along as the Grizzly arrives at the Arctic.


All this messy extraction now combines with serious tree planting. Also there is more and more experimental growing of crops farther north than ever before. The future is all being rehearsed and begun as we speak.


There are serious ways you can make a difference. They are mining diamonds up where those bears are creating a new species.


You could do any of those yourself. A reverse pipeline is going to bring oil from dear old Canada next door.

Very luckily for America there is a stable, friendly democracy right next door that has as much oil as Arabia, or Venezuela, which is huge.


Soon a pipeline will be being build from Alberta Canada down past the Hannibal of Mark Twain. The Canadian oil will supply Minneapolis, Milwaukee, and the neighbors around and including Chicago, then reverse the historic Texas supplied oil now almost gone.


So now oil flows south down the Mississippi to the Gulf at New Orleans. Where those Houston refineries will soon receive their oil not from cranky Venezuela but from friendly Canada, and as always then distribute to America. And so whether you get your degree in oil or diamonds, bountiful duties are ahead of you.


Or forestry skills if you have brains to master, there is work to be done out west. And dear lady for you, is a chance to be part of the crew. Make sure you have worked and listened and learned.


And the future is yours, which you will have earned.

Healthy Lifestyles, Science – Happiness In Eight Steps to Bliss

Monday, May 17th, 2010

As there was much interest in the healthy lifestyles issue of happiness that we discussed earlier that I will elaborate further. Besides,I have made a commitment that we will until at least I have memorized and incorporated each of these virtues as a natural matter of course.


As I still must look at my notes rather than close my eyes and speak all eight virtues not from memory but from more deeply and fully from my heart,it is a powerful reminder that God is not finished with me. And to be honest as Mark Twain would have said, I am not so sure about you too.


Scientists at the University of California measured thousands of people at various stages of life and found there were eight common variables among those who reported the happiest and most fulfilling lives, best health for their age group, active and helpful in local volunteer work, tended to believe in a God and an afterlife, and had no doubt they were going there, but were in no hurry. These attributes to bliss are:

1, Count Your Blessings. 2, Commit acts of kindness. 3, Savor the joys of Life. 4, Thank a mentor. 5, Learn to forgive. 6, Stay close to family and friends. 7, Take care of your body. 8, Develop strategies to cope with stress and hardship.And there you are


Science sees us as master apes who have convinced ourselves there is a God and a Heaven if we are good. Thus we grow up, as did I, knowing that Santa will not give us a lump of coal if we were good mostly all year.


We were often loved enough to receive these lessons or be taken to a bible or Sunday school and learn all these lessons, and go home feeling aglow if got to help a little old lady across the street on the way home. And what if we finally listen and find she didn’t want to cross the street?


Well,we get to help her back across the street. A boy scout can convince himself that was two good duties, but there is that little doubt, so you look for another little old lady on a street corner. This time you ask.


So even us Adams who God restricted on the communications skills and gave most Eves more intricate verbal circuits Up There, and a gent needs to have had a close relationship with his mom, which I did, to learn to just chat away. Mom knew everything, which seemed just so amazing.


Hopefully you can also tap into these more female virtues, and also share these marvelous memories. I recall asking mom why the government did not just print more money and give it to the poor, and while she was baking cookies she explained that inflation would then drive up the price of everything.


Mom had lived as a child in the brutal depression that now only third people experience, and had seen if we gave away too much and could not match it with income, we could be like the German people in the depression who had to take a wheelbarrow of their money to buy a loaf of bread.


And if you gents are lucky as I was and also have a sister and then daughters and then grand daughters you gradually find you chat along with them all with ease and lucky you, lucky me, thank you God.


They still expect you to be the man, fix the sink, scare off the bear, and I guess so does God but as women become the doctors it is a good thing.


So step by step, Count Your Blessings, and from the second day on Acts of Kindness could be carried out with elegance and grace by you, Mary Poppins, with your magic wand of happiness.

Healthy Lifestyles, Science – How To Enjoy Bliss As We Age

Sunday, May 16th, 2010

Healthy lifestyles in all aspects of our lives are essential to arriving in your later years, as I am now at 68, that if so you well understand that you can remember muh farther back than you have time forward.


My father and grand father both lived to 93. I live much more healthy lifestyles than they did, but who knows. But in theory then I am now down under ten thousand days left alive to enjoy my family and friends and to still make worthwhile contributions to life, as we all desire.


And to keep active and make good use of however many days we have left on earth alive, we can pretty much measure based on our lifestyles and our own family life history. I will give a personal example for myself, with no promise from God that he could stop me tomorrow from looking the wrong way as I step into an oncoming bus. If so, hello, St. Peter.


Or, if I or you have been naughty and not nice, fools us, we not only had a miserable life, but to believe what we were taught in Sunday School, bad people live forever in hell, as they did of the hell they kept creating on earth. There is a wiser way, and yes, it is what we learned in Sunday school or kindergarten, until we outgrew that nonsense and went out and toughened up and bit back better than we got.


Not as smart as we thought. In fact, pushing your way up and in causes you internal anguish somehow enough that shortens the life of you the bully, and sweet angel of mercy at the next desk lives on serenely loved by all. Curse her, she will ask for your forgiveness.

Who is sneering, wearing red with a pointy stick and horns, who smiles like the good fairy from the west.


Well, women seem to master these elemental truths more naturally, and if we men see any girlie man prancing around performing these wonderful eight actions daily, you know we guy guys who will die early privately call him Betsy.


Well gents, let us consider that marriage has softened even Arnold, so let us put him in performing each of these acts so you chaps afraid your manly mask be torn off, you are both The Arnold and Cary Grant. And you do these acts dressed as Cary, or if you can suck it up and beef up, the Arnold.


Cary with a Fred Astaire hat would allow you, on your first day, to be an English Count. As in the popular children’s show, you love to Count your blessings. So you do that, with a fancy English cane if Cary will loan you his.If not, buy a good one, it will come in handy with the next mugger.


Clear this with the boss as a psychological study on building morale. But to you this is how to powerfully imprint these eight elemental commonalities between the happiest, healthiest, most long living people, from a University of California study.


You try to do what Tony Curtis tells us he did when he played the millionaire with Marilyn Monroe: he spoke in front of a mirror and practiced speaking like Cary Grant.So, Cary, you gently point your Mary Poppins cane at so and so and say, so and so, I am thankful for you, and I Count you as my blessing 35.


The lower they are on the power grid the more you should praise. If you can imprint this first element of happiness, you will be exhausted, and by the time you present your last rose and greatest praise to the most humble and neglected employee or contract worker, the evening cleaning lady.


Be honest and humble with her on her magical transforming of the mess you all make to picture perfect in the morning. By now, those who were moaning at you earlier will likely lead a rare and memorable applause for Annie the Cleaning Lady.


She will hum all her shift and show that rose to her family, and so will your heart to you. That is the first of the eight, we have run out of time, lights out, make sure the camp fire is put out. We will obviously have to make this part of the series that help you imprint your bliss. First, what do we do? We Count our blessing, my Lord.

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