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Wednesday 8th January 2014


G’day,

Hope your year is off to a grand start!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Fruit That Is As Good As A Statin
 
 
 
 

Although doctors continually dish out drugs to prevent heart disease, researchers in England find that they could just as effectively give their patients an apple. Eating an apple a day, their study shows, may protect your heart about as well as a statin drug.

 
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Major biological discovery…inside the Chernobyl reactor
 
 
 
 

There has been an exciting new biological discovery inside the tomb of the Chernobyl reactor. Like out of some B-grade sci fi movie, a robot sent into the reactor discovered a thick coat of black slime growing on the walls. Since it is highly radioactive in there, scientists didn’t expect to find anything living, let alone thriving. The robot was instructed to obtain samples of the slime, which it did, and upon examination…the slime was even more amazing than was thought at first glance.

 
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School Measures School
 
School Measures School
 
 
 

This is so true!

 
 
 
 
Doubt Kills More Dreams Than Failure Ever Will
 
Doubt Kills More Dreams Than Failure Ever Will
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Do Epic Shit
 
Do Epic Shit
 
 
 

THIS is what I am up to this year!

 
 
 
 
30 Things Your Future Self Will Thank You For
 
30 Things Your Future Self Will Thank You For
 
 
 

This is a great list!

 
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A Letter From Fiona Apple
 
A Letter From Fiona Apple
 
 
 

This is a beautiful letter from Fiona Apple explaining to her fans why she must postpone a concert date. I am impressed at the way she was instantly able to make the decision to choose love over her career. Indeed, the world needs more of this. Enjoy the story...

It’s 6pm on Friday, and I’m writing to a few thousand friends I have not met yet. I’m writing to ask them to change our plans and meet a little while later. Here’s the thing.

I have a dog, Janet, and she’s been ill for about 2 years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly. She’s almost 14 years old now. I got her when she was 4 months old. I was 21 then — an adult, officially — and she was my kid.

She is a pitbull, and was found in Echo Park, with a rope around her neck, and bites all over her ears and face.

She was the one the dogfighters use to puff up the confidence of the contenders.

She’s almost 14 and I’ve never seen her start a fight, or bite, or even growl, so I can understand why they chose her for that awful role. She’s a pacifist.

Janet has been the most consistent relationship of my adult life, and that is just a fact. We’ve lived in numerous houses, and joined a few makeshift families, but it’s always really been just the two of us.

She slept in bed with me, her head on the pillow, and she accepted my hysterical, tearful face into her chest, with her paws around me, every time I was heartbroken, or spirit-broken, or just lost, and as years went by, she let me take the role of her child, as I fell asleep, with her chin resting above my head.

She was under the piano when I wrote songs, barked any time I tried to record anything, and she was in the studio with me, all the time we recorded the last album.

The last time I came back from tour, she was spry as ever, and she’s used to me being gone for a few weeks, every 6 or 7 years.

She has Addison’s Disease, which makes it more dangerous for her to travel, since she needs regular injections of Cortisol, because she reacts to stress and excitement without the physiological tools which keep most of us from literally panicking to death.

Despite all this, she’s effortlessly joyful & playful, and only stopped acting like a puppy about 3 years ago. She is my best friend, and my mother, and my daughter, my benefactor, and she’s the one who taught me what love is.

I can’t come to South America. Not now. When I got back from the last leg of the US tour, there was a big, big difference.

She doesn’t even want to go for walks anymore.

I know that she’s not sad about aging or dying. Animals have a survival instinct, but a sense of mortality and vanity, they do not. That’s why they are so much more present than people.

But I know she is coming close to the time where she will stop being a dog, and start instead to be part of everything. She'll be in the wind, and in the soil, and the snow, and in me, wherever I go.

I just can’t leave her now, please understand. If I go away again, I’m afraid she’ll die and I won’t have the honor of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out.

Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes just to decide what socks to wear to bed.

But this decision is instant.

These are the choices we make, which define us. I will not be the woman who puts her career ahead of love & friendship.

I am the woman who stays home, baking Tilapia for my dearest, oldest friend. And helps her be comfortable & comforted & safe & important.

Many of us these days, we dread the death of a loved one. It is the ugly truth of Life that keeps us feeling terrified & alone. I wish we could also appreciate the time that lies right beside the end of time. I know that I will feel the most overwhelming knowledge of her, and of her life and of my love for her, in the last moments.

I need to do my damnedest, to be there for that.

Because it will be the most beautiful, the most intense, the most enriching experience of life I’ve ever known.

When she dies.

So I am staying home, and I am listening to her snore and wheeze, and I am revelling in the swampiest, most awful breath that ever emanated from an angel. And I'm asking for your blessing.

I’ll be seeing you.

Love,

Fiona

 
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Apache Blessing
 
Apache Blessing
 
 
 

This is a beautiful blessing.
I think I will pass it on to you.

Let it be so!

 
 
 
 
Biggest Health Car Lies
 
Biggest Health Car Lies
 
 
 

This rings true with me.
I have never heard of a research institute finding a cure for anything.
If you have I'd like to hear of it.

 
 
 
 
To Play Without Passion Is Inexcusable
 
To Play Without Passion Is Inexcusable
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Scientists Find Sniffing Rosemary Can Increase Memory By 75%
 
Scientists Find Sniffing Rosemary Can Increase Memory By 75%
 
 
 

Wow!

 
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When Comforting a Grammar Nazi
 
When Comforting a Grammar Nazi
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Pain Killers Kill More Than Pain
 
Pain Killers Kill More Than Pain
 
 
 

Acetaminophen toxicity from supposedly benign pain killers and cold remedies is the number one cause of acute liver failure in America.

 
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Suppression Of Symptoms With Drugs Creates Chronic Disease
 
Suppression Of Symptoms With Drugs Creates Chronic Disease
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Bring Her In Alive
 
Bring Her In Alive
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
How To Repair Anything
 
How To Repair Anything
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Time To Return To Balance
 
Time To Return To Balance
 
 
 

...before it is too late!

 
 
 
 
This Homework Looks Hard
 
This Homework Looks Hard
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
What Happened
 
What Happened
 
 
 

They were deliberately dumbed down by an “education” system perverted to serve other means.

The bright ones were labelled and drugged by psychologists and psychiatrists to make them feel wooden.

They were enticed into using illicit drugs rather than being given workable technologies to handle their physical or emotional pains.

The creative artists were steered in the direction of writing music that landed a big percentage of listeners in jail.

They were continually exposed to messages from a media controlled by those who would enslave.

They were divided by false fronts that got them debating non-important issues rather than observing the decline in their freedoms.

They were poisoned with fluoride that makes one apathetic.

Their bodies were destroyed by sugar, chemtrails and other poisons so they would have no concern for ought but their health.

They were oppressed by an economic system intent on keeping their attention diverted on the need to make a dollar above all else.

They were misled by accusations of treachery against non-existent foreign enemies so they would willingly surrender their freedoms in exchange for the promise of security.

They were distracted by free corn and games. No, sorry, that was the Romans.

Anyway, I could probably think of a few more but you get the point.

THEY WERE, TOO BIG A PERCENTAGE OF THE ABLE, BY VARIOUS MEANS, DISEMPOWERED, DISTRACTED AND DISABLED!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Until next time,
dream big dreams,
plan out how to achieve them,
be continually executing your plans,
enlist people to your causes,
travel and/or read widely, preferably both,
all the while observing what you observe
rather than thinking what you are told to think,
think well of your fellow man,
take time to help your fellow man,
he sorely needs it and it will help you too,
eat food that is good for your body,
exercise your body,
take time to destress,
and do the important things
that make a difference -
they are rarely the urgent ones!

Tom

 
 

Most of the content herein has been copied from someone else. Especially the images. My goodness some people are talented at creating aesthetics! The small bits that are of my creation are Copyright 2014 © by Tom Grimshaw - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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