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“I am officially insane”
“Being insane allows me to be who I want to be”
This is a poem written by a teenager with cancer.
It is quite the poem
This poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York Hospital.
It was sent by a medical doctor –
SLOW DANCE
Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask “How are you?”
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in yourbed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You’d better slow down
Don’t dance sofast.
Time is short.
The music won’tlast.
Ever told your child,
We’ll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause younever had time
To calland say, ‘Hi’
You’d better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last..
When you runso fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift….
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.
1. If your throat tickles, scratch your ear.
When you were 9, playing your armpit was a cool trick. Now, as an adult, you can still appreciate a good body-based feat, but you’re more discriminating. Take that tickle in your throat; it’s not worth gagging over. Here’s a better way to scratch your itch: “When the nerves in the ear are stimulated, it creates a reflex in the throat that can cause a muscle spasm,” says Scott Schaffer, M.D., president of an ear, nose and throat specialty center in Gibbsboro, New Jersey. “This spasm relieves the tickle.”
2. Experience supersonic hearing!
If you’re stuck chatting up a mumbler at a cocktail party, lean in with your right ear. It’s better than your left at following the rapid rhythms of speech, according to researchers at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. If, on the other hand, you’re trying to identify that song playing softly in the elevator, turn your left ear toward the sound. The left ear is better at picking up music tones.
3. Feel no pain!
German researchers have discovered that coughing during an injection can lessen the pain of the needle stick. According to Taras Usichenko, author of a study on the phenomenon, the trick causes a sudden, temporary rise in pressure in the chest and spinal canal, inhibiting the pain-conducting structures of the spinal cord. Read the rest of this entry »
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Starting tomorrow, travel writer Rolf Potts will embark on a trip that will take him around the world without using a single piece of luggage. This post will explain how he’s going to do it, and there’s a kick-ass giveaway at the end…
For six weeks he will explore 12 countries on five continents, crossing the equator four times, without carrying so much as a man-purse. The few items he does bring will be tucked away in his pockets. Though he’s a seasoned minimalist traveler (famous from his book Vagabonding), he usually travels with a single overhead-bin-perfect backpack, the Eagle Creek Thrive 65L. It’s been his go-to bag for the last 3-4 years.
So why attempt to travel the world with no luggage at all?
Rolf sees his journey as a real-time experiment in traveling ultra-light, and “a field-test for a more philosophical idea — that what we experience in life is more important than what we bring with us.”
While circumnavigating the globe with no luggage sounds like a clear enough proposition, it can raise a few semantic issues. What, for example, counts as a bag? Rolf has set up a set of ground rules to guide his own journey, including:
- No bags on the journey (not even a man-purse or grocery store bag, unless the latter is used en route to a meal).
- No borrowing items from his cameraman or using his cameraman as a pack mule.
- Borrowing or buying items along the way is permitted but excludes bags.
Since most people don’t travel with a film crew, Rolf’s advice for the average no-baggage traveler is a bit broader than the rules he’s set for himself. Here are 8 key tips from Rolf on how to plan and execute a no-luggage journey.
In Rolf’s words…
1) Manage the journey from your mobile phone.
I was on holiday (as long as you are not on a spa holiday, it does not help to get some rest!) back to my home town (Cyprus) for few days and after 5 hours delay, I finally arrived yesterday morning. Obviously I was deadly tired and had to wake up after 4 hours sleep. On top of this I had a phone call from a dear friend who wanted to come and pick me up to go somewhere near my house. We jumped in the car and drove. After half an hour we were done. Then he asked if we can go Birmingham (2.5 hours drive with return would be 5 hours and I had only 4 hours sleep after a long journey!) to buy something for his car!! Ok, I love to collect experiences throughout my life, so I intent to say YES as much as I can. One YES may change your life or may not but NO will do nothing for sure. But this time I was exhausted! Does not matter I had to say, what I had to say…
I said YES! Read the rest of this entry »
You don’t always have to work hard to be productive. Productivity can simply be the side effect of doing the right things.
So here’s a list of 29 semi-productive things I do online when my mind is set on avoiding ‘real work.’
- Check delicious popular tags like ‘useful,’ ‘tutorials,’ ‘tips,’ ‘howto,’ ‘advice,’ ‘entrepreneurship,’ etc. for interesting, educational articles to read.
- Watch one of the thousands of educational videos streaming at TED.com, Academic Earth and Teacher Tube.
- Read an online book list and find a new book to grab next time I’m at the library. Here’s another list. And another. And another.
- Read a classic book online for free at Project Gutenberg, Planet eBook, or the E-books Directory.
- Research a new Do It Yourself project at DIY Network, Instructables, eHow, or WikiHow.
- Add to, delete from, or just generally sort my ongoing to-do list at Remember The Milk.
- Create a cool graphical mind map of some of my recent ideas at bubbl.us.
- Email a close friend or family member I haven’t spoken to in awhile. Read the rest of this entry »
IKEA way to squeeze a large amount of practical workspace in bedroom, while still keeping it very minimalist and livable.
The two separate desks are divided into work and play areas, the larger and apparently custom-built desk serves as a play space for videos and gaming. The smaller and appropriately white desk is a dedicated schoolwork station sporting a MacBook. Aside from the ascetic considerations in planning out a room with nice modern styling, StE8823 has included practical touches like a hook under the desk to hang a Swiffer duster on for quick touch ups on clutter free surfaces.
The placement of the monitor on the larger desk makes for an excellent media center screen, well positioned for watching a movie from the bed. And who isn’t a sucker for well placed ambient
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