What You Eat

it turns out it isn't what you eat that makes you sick and fat
or fat and sick

it is what you don't eat

what people don't eat is vegetables and fruits

they don't eat enough fruits and vegetables
and that is what makes them fat and sick

Cease To Be Obese

when are you going to cease to be obese?

just because you have a rebel army does not mean that the rebellion is popular

let things alone and they tend to work themselves out

How To Run A Business In Hard Times

what do we mean by hard times?

falling prices, deflation, that sort of thing

easy to manage....

lower your prices

The way to run a business in hard times is to lower your prices. Is that so hard to imagine?
It really works.
When you lower your prices you can sell your product.
Keeps the money coming in.

Keeps the ship afloat.

Lower your prices

Remember The Truth

Meanwhile the zeitgeist had taken a negative turn. Stocks are dropping on news from Spain and Italy about debt. People are giving way too much attention to a shooting at a theater in Colorado. Meanwhile there is almost no attention to a car wreck in Texas that killed just as many people. But they were Mexican workers, so who cares??!!
I am feeling some of the despair. What’s the point? My whole life has been one big mistake. There is nothing to look forward to. That sort of thinking.
We are tipping over as a civilization. Everything is deteriorating and getting worse.
That is what we are hearing in the media. Election bullshit.
Reality intrudes. Look around and you see all sorts of positive stuff. New cars, new houses and buildings, people taking care of what they have, new inventions, devices, great movies, all sorts of amazing progress in the world. Nothing to be pessimistic about. Things are gradually improving on all fronts.
I find that as an individual this truth sometimes is hard to see because of the aging process. Each of us as an individual does have an inevitable decline and death. This can lead to a pessimistic outlook.
But we are not really individuals. We are part of a whole, a community, a world. We are part of the infinite and have access to the infinite. We are magical and powerful and free.
Don’t buy into the negativity.
Go ahead and listen to the whole story. Remember the true story. It is a story of progress and enlightenment.

Pixels

Is the real world made of pixels?

What Is GDP?

William and I replaced 16 feet of our side fence the other day. It was hard work. I am still sore.
But the soreness feels good after a job well done.
I estimate the value of our labor to have been $500.
But that value will not be included in GDP. GDP only measures the money economy.
It does not measure all the good done by people for themselves.
If I pay someone to cook my dinner it is part of GDP. If I cook my own dinner it is not part of GDP.

For us there is another bonus of value in that we did not have to pay taxes, income taxes, on our labor.
When you pay anyone for a job the tax collector wants a cut.
They have not yet figured out how to tax you for making your bed, or mowing your own lawn,
or cutting your own hair.

Imagine an economy of volunteers and people doing their own work for themselves and GDP would be zero.

What would the tax collector do?

Rewards and Punishments

Was reading in a book written by a doctor how people are not to blame for their illnesses

and following that idea it might be said  that people are not to blame for any ill they do
and it might follow that they also deserve no credit for any good they do

so then, just as people do not deserve any punishments, they also do not deserve any rewards

and yet, nature does not share this attitude
nature is unforgiving
no mercy, no appeal

slip and fall off the mountain and you are simply dead
work diligently and intelligently and you will have a fine harvest

but nature won't say you were good or bad
nature will just give you what you really deserve

Demonizing

so there are no demons
really
they do not exist

and yet in our political process demonization goes on all the time

Republicans demonize government
Democrats demonize business and the rich

and we all get demonized at some point

young
old
rich
poor
immigrants
Christians
Jews
police
the military

and so on and so on

all get demonized at some point

so let us wake up and understand we are all just trying to aim for the good and reason together and work together to attain the good

I am not a demon
You are not a demon
They are not demons

there are no demons

Faith

faith is the power that makes substance of our dreams

Getting Attention

you do not need to get sick in order to get attention

we all need attention
strokes
smiles
hellos
touches

but there are an infinite number of good positive ways to get that attention

one never needs to get sick to get good attention

so let go of the sick game
let it go

be well

give love and you will get more love than you ever thought possible
give love and you will never need to be sick again
give love and you will be well
and be sure to open our heart to receive the love that comes your way