Early voting is a wonderful concept. It takes pressure off the voting site. It relieves the voter of a deadline.
I took the opportunity for a very relaxing early morning vote.
Early
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Sedentary
It’s increasingly apparent that leading a sedentary life is bad for the health.
When I say “the health” I mean yours and mine. But women’s health in particular. The statistics suggesting just how bad inactivity is- especially for women- are grim.
Now I recognize that this is not exactly news to any of us.
Movement is necessary.
Since the pandemic began, we’ve been introduced to a lot of online programs. We also have spent more time in our jammies and slippers.
I used a site strategically-named Fitness Blender to get in enough supervised push-ups, squats, and lunges.
With the return to a more conventional workweek, we have even fewer opportunities to stay active.
In the spirit of helping us to maintain a healthier body and mind, Melissa Painter’s women-founded Breakthru has developed an immersive, interactive app.
Breakthru: Movement Microbreaks for the Modern Workday are 2-minute long movements guided to inspire a mood.
A User’s Guide on How it Works
1. start by picking the mood you are looking for- confident, joyful, energized or centered. Each mood is accompanied by a color – the experience is interactive and multi-sensory, with spatial sound.
2. push away from the computer and follow the guide, created by motion capture from movement experts whose expertise ranges from akido, tai chi, physical therapy, yoga and dance.
There’s no right or wrong way to play- the movement of your body affects the sound and the visuals! Each mood contains a series of different break options – there is a world of movement behind each mood option, each of which hold an entire series.
Breakthru invites you to set custom reminders and allows you to see your history. It also uses interactive feedback – machine vision (AI) – so the movement of a user’s body changes the sound and visual.
You can set team challenges, send appreciation to a colleague, use Breakthru as an ice breaker in meetings, win streaks, and unlock new breaks over time.
For more information on Breakthru visit their site.
I am still puzzling this out
Darwin was wrong. Or only partially right.
We aren’t descended in a straight line lineage from one hominid or another.
I Need the Cliff Notes.
Our ancestry, that is, human ancestry, is more complicated than that.
This is intriguing and fascinating, and I don’t have time to fully realize where this fact leads.
Send me the “for dummies” crib book. Please.
In honor of the April fool
The fool, if memory serves, was a foil for the foibles of a monarch. At least, that was the case in Shakespeare’s liturgy.
The jester, in jest, could shout truth to power. The King, since it is his fool speaking, is not offended.
when thou clovest thy crown i’ th’ middle and gav’st away both parts…thou hads’t little wit in thy bald crown when thou gav’st thy golden one away.
See King Lear, Act 1 Scene 4.
Fools made mockery of great men. The Bard’s Fools told it like it was.
Although this post foolisly lags behind the day it is meant to commemorate, it carries the spirit of a beau jeste. Laugh on and be merry. Or, as Donald O’Connor danced and sang it, “Be a clown.”
Booming
Despite the turmoil we all felt and experienced, the sixties were a time of hope. For many of us, they were a chance to bring the America we loved to its full potential.
Social justice was a goal within reach. Equality and righted wrongs were an ideal to which we could aspire.
The sixties were an opportunity to be our best. Or at least better.
Our place in the sun
Is it geography or ethnicity or the foods we ate as youngsters that define us? Does our race or the habits of our family make us who we are?
As Americans, we have the propensity to redefine ourselves. This is a good.
The trait that allows us to rise above and beyond our expectations is just that one.
Things, our personal history, the circumstances that surround us, can be changed by perseverance. We can apply will and hope wherever it is needed.
We can find who we are. We are not defined by who you think we are.
That makes us unstoppable.
Kind Friends
Kindness and friendship are not activities but I am grateful for both.
The person who wrapped these lovely flowers in that lovely tote offers me both kindness and friendship.
I am a very lucky person. She is one of many kind friends that have gathered around me.
My heart swells with gratitude to all of them. You know who you are!
I have also been fortunate in having strangers come to my assistance. I may not know who you are but I am very appreciative of your aid. And, of course, your kindness in all those unexpected acts of friendship.
The better way
To me, this is the highway
To heaven, spread out so
You have to jump from one
To the other like jumping
Over stepping stones, or in
Tight, marking an ephemeral
Pathway, built of clouds and
Leading overhead, skyward.
Just as we imagine a heavenly
Roadway to guide us, upward
Towards our better or even
Our best selves, this is the
Highway to heaven. We need
Search, nor yearn, no more
All The Best 