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ardening as a child. On my mom’s side we had pioneers, homesteaders, and a well known French Canadian explorer (Jacques LaRamee). My grandfather was born in a sod house on the prairie of northeastern Colorado.

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ate still lived in a soddy when I was a child.

We’d visit her. She kept bees in her attic that we had to pass through going down into her earthen dwelling. She told us not to panic, not to swat at them but walk on by.

The bees supplied honey and pollinated the crops all around us.

To this day I find this the best way to handle most of nature’s creatures. If we remain calm and show that we mean them no harm they react in kind.

Great Aunt Kate was a tiny woman, like my great grandmother Ramey, who was maybe five feet tall. Both were strong women, pioneer stuff.

They had to be, just as their men were survivors who made the best of things.

I learned early that water and natural resources were limited and precious, so I became ecologically minded as a toddler.

At my forebear’s sides I learned to grow things–flowers, vegetables, whatever we could get to live.   That wasn’t much, not on the prairie with its constant winds and droughts.  We often had to carry buckets of water to the gardens because there was no hose, no city water, no pump nearby.

This passion has grown over time.

Because of my expertise in these areas, I am

in a great positi on to pass this knowledge

on.

In every great battle, great weapons can help you achieve victory, and that goes for the battle of

the bulge, too.

Here, we offer you some newly-discovered weight-loss weapons to help you defeat those extra pounds.  Click here for rest of article.

Want to live longer—and healthier? These secrets from a sleepy Greek island could show you the way.

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Dr. Bob Harman, veterinarian and Vet-Stem founder, said it made sense to use these fat-based adult stem cells, which the body uses to create scar tissue

and repair damage, to treat chronic disease in animals.

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“It seems odd, then, that a type of fat tissue could also be the key to weight control.”

Interesting article about weight and

weight gain.

Click here.

If you haven’t seen this video yet(click here), h ave

a look. It’s moving and inspiring.

This Chinese woman washes, cooks meals for her family, gat

hers crabs, shells peanuts and plants them, even sews

and plays cards–all with her feet.

She has no arms.

Click here to view.

Saez also found that the top 10 percent of American earners pulled in 49.7 percent of total wages: a level “higher than any other year since 1917 and even surpasses 1928.”
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Appalling. How long are we going to let this corruption continue

?

Outside the Basilica at Lourdes I walked into an energy field. I had hurt my heel travelling around France with my English deacon friend and could hardly walk.

I had been in serious pain for days.

Becoming aware of the energy field that felt like liquid air, I turned to my friend, and said, “Do you feel that?”

She felt nothing, didn’t believe in miracles, had been in nurse’s training before entering the deaconite.

In my mind stripping the faith of all mysteries, and miracles, makes it dull and boring.

Suddenly, I realized that the pain was gone and I was no longer limping.

My lifelong sinus problems got much better and stayed that way for several years.

I know that if I were to develop some serious disease, I’d visit Lourdes again.

There’s something there, some mystery perhaps best left at that, a mystery.

The profound things in life are always so.

By nature, I am prone to anxiety. It runs in my family, so it is probably a genetic predisposition as well as learned behavior.

Our current world situation certainly does little to help us keep our anxiety under control.

If we do not find ways to outfox it, anxiety is debilitating.

We worry and worry and get little else done.

I just read some helpful tips regarding anxiety on the Real Age site.

The article begins: “Finding little everyday things to be glad about — and worrying less about the big picture — may be the real key to happiness, researchers say.” Read rest of article by clicking here.