“Forget the Fads: This is the Only Diet Tip You Need” in Dr. Eifrig’s Health & Wealth Bulletin
Dr. Eifrig, a friend and colleague, has come to the same conclusion I have: The Mediterranean diet has the most science behind it, and the Keto diet, while good in some respects, is not sustainable and therefore not optimal. Read what he has to say in this article, and make your own decision. LINK
“US-Iran Tensions: From Political Coup to Hostage Crisis to Drone Strikes” on History.com
This brief review of US-Iran relations over the last 70 years provides a depressing picture of how difficult it is to try to control the activities of other sovereign nations – particularly when you have America’s foreign policy being run by politically appointed people with little to no experience in international business and global politics. LINK
“The Best Way to Profit From Government Stupidity”
In this article, Doug Casey makes a compelling case for having some gold in your portfolio. LINK
The latest issue of AWAI’s Barefoot Writer
In the January issue:
* 7 Ways to Kick-Start 2020 as a Well-Paid Writer
* Become a Double Threat: A Writer With Bonus “Art Skills”
* The Top 10 Lessons I Learned From a Year of Productivity
In a short article on Medium.com titled “I Don’t Believe in Climate Change,” Duncan Riach makes a good point – that it’s a mistake to frame the issue as a black-and-white, true-or-false argument. Climate change is not about “belief.” It’s about science, he reminds us, where propositions are made based on observation and then tested.
You can read the entire article here.
The latest issue of Independent Healing: “Infinite Immunity”
A Nobel-Prize-winning discovery shows that our bodies have the natural ability to destroy all illness. But modern life is sabotaging our in-born defense against disease. In this issue, you’ll discover how to get it back. LINK
“Emily Dickinson, Freelancer” in The New Yorker
Emily Dickinson was one of America’s great poets. If you’re familiar with some of her better-known poems, you’ll enjoy this…LINK
“Burning the Old Year” by Naomi Shihab Nye
Letters swallow themselves in seconds,
Notes friends tied to the doorknob,
transparent scarlet paper,
sizzle like moth wings,
marry the air.
So much of any year is flammable,
lists of vegetables, partial poems.
Orange swirling flame of days,
so little is a stone.
Where there was something and suddenly isn’t,
an absence shouts, celebrates, leaves a space.
I begin again with the smallest numbers.
Quick dance, shuffle of losses and leaves,
only the things I didn’t do
crackle after the blazing dies.
“The Darkling Thrush” by Thomas Hardy
I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-gray,
And Winter’s dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day.
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their household fires.
The land’s sharp features seemed to be
The Century’s corpse outleant,
His crypt the cloudy canopy,
The wind his death-lament.
The ancient pulse of germ and birth
Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
Seemed fervourless as I.
At once a voice arose among
The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom.
So little cause for carolings
Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
And I was unaware.
“Mistletoe” by Walter de la Mare
Sitting under the mistletoe
(Pale-green, fairy mistletoe),
One last candle burning low,
All the sleepy dancers were gone,
Just one candle burning on,
Shadows lurking everywhere:
Someone came and kissed me there.
Tired I was; my head would go
Nodding under the mistletoe
(Pale-green, fairy mistletoe),
No footsteps came, no voice, but only,
Just as I sat there, sleepy, lonely,
Stooped in the still and shadowy air
Lips unseen – and kissed me there.