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The subject intrigues me but I have to wait till tomorrow to write more... I know there's a LOT more to dna than our stone age researchers are aware of.

There are plants all around my wifi router, camouflaging it so to speak, and they're thriving. No sprouts as in the experiment but still...

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Oh, haha! I missed this when you first posted it, saw it at FB. So funny and sweet :-) Our poor dog WISHES the cats would play with her. Whenever one walks past her cave (under the dining room table), she runs over and grabs the first toy or bone she can get to and then jumps out in front of the cat with the object in her mouth, hoping the cat will try to wrestle it from her. But alas. Cats don't play them games. They usually sit down, purr, and start a staring contest which drives the dog nuts.

Practice smile now Mother-in-law in the house Practice smile now

Yessss! One of my most favorite poems ever... Langston Hughes classic

nice find!

when I have Grandchildren, I'm going to show them the movie '2012' and tell them, 'yep, I survived that' (not my own, haha) Yellowstone is bizarre!

well, I admit to having a superficial understanding, but enough to know that ancestor worship/veneration is at least as much a spiritual practice as anything else. The ancestors are there in spiritual form, in the afterlife, and they're generally not very happy with our modern world, afaik.

A 'master'? Maybe s/he was being wily and testing to see if someone would quote him/her ;-) But regardless, my gut response was that it's someone imposing his will on others, with an air of authority.

It's not only about remembrance and respect.

Both things of wonder Two pearls trapped in one oyster She's black and he's white

I'm curious what you see when you close your eyes, turn inward.

I think of lightning as the meridian between two acupoints. The points are really there but the line is just one of many possible paths.

Life is Fine by Langston Hughes I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank. I came up once and hollered! I came up twice and cried! If that water hadn't a-been so cold I might've sunk and died. But it was Cold in that water! It was cold! I took the elevator Sixteen floors above the ground. I thought about my baby And thought I would jump down. I stood there and I hollered! I stood there and I cried! If it hadn't a-been so high I might've jumped and died. But it was High up there! It was high! So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love But for livin' I was born Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die. Life is fine! Fine as wine! Life is fine!

'in memory of a master' - This is the reason for the post. And thank you Walker for sharing it :-)

No, absolutely not! Thank you for calling me on it. I meant that as a cliché and could have, should have put it in quotation marks. The beer bellies are beautiful too :-) In fact, there's a lot less 'sexiness' in the spa than at the swimming pool where the sexy bits are covered.

Sriracha is completely natural, too. No additives at all (on the label, anyway).

Absolutely. It's kind of creepy sometimes. I'm generally the 'Hahn im Korb' - the rooster in the henhouse, meaning my groups, like most Qigong groups, are generally 80% female. And those females tend to see in me (an illusion) many things they wish they'd see in their husbands. Not saying anymore ...

boo hoo hoo There are other sources of this sauce of the gods: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sriracha_sauce I buy it at a Chinese snack bar that gets it direct from Thailand. I'm kind of going cold turkey (orcold rooster?) at the moment, though, because I haven't eaten anything that doesn't taste like Sriracha for a while now lol :-) And habanero ... Favorite food: mixed chopped vegetables in the frying pan with lots of olive oil, fresh seasonings, whatever inspires me at the moment, definitely something spicy, maybe some smoked salmon or shrimps tossed in there, with rice and Sriracha sauce on top Side dish - mixed salad with chunks of camembert/moldy cheese Desert of the season - Dresdner Christstollen Topped off with an herbal bitter and a black esspresso Gastronomical bliss

ugh... Bikram is also popular here in Germany, too, and I've sensed the cult aspect since day one. I absolutely cannot abide this kind of thing. It's a tragedy but I hope it has wide-ranging effects on the movement, opens a few eyes. As an alternative: I spent the evening at a beautiful spa in Bamberg (Bambados), did some Bagua walking in a 45C° steam bath, sat in half lotus breathing the MCO and swallowing golden elixir in saunas at >90°C (along with mixed-sex groups - gorgeous young women, beer-bellied men, grandmas, grandpas, and all human forms in between, all naked and happy), Qigong walked around the cobblestone walking paths, swam in the ice cold natural pond, took foot baths, read a book in a salt room... cost me 14euro for the three hours including a nice alcohol-free wheat Bier and an order of home fries. I did soooo much more than anyone ever got from an over-expensive Bikram session, but people still flock to these 'gurus'. Why??? The more popular and celebrity-oriented a system is, the more I'm turned off by it.

Hahahahahaha luv it! There's a video making the rounds showing dogs afraid to walk past cats. Have you seen it?

Comes with the package when you're schizophrenic, no?

Yaaaaayyyy :-) http://theoatmeal.com/comics/sriracha

Did you catch the follow-up story to this yet? Pretty interesting stuff