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Posts from This Journal “the west” Tag

• QotD: Western Yoga isn't much like Ancient Hindu Yoga

  Contemporary Western postural yoga projects an authenticity and unbroken ancient heritage onto the yogic tradition, while mourning the…

• QotD: Women's Place

  “Women have their place in this world, but they do not belong in the canyons of the Colorado” —Buzz Holmstrom in 1938 I ran…

• QotD: De Becker on American Violence

  "While we are quick to judge the human rights record of every other country on earth, it is we civilized Americans whose murder rate is ten…

• QotD: Water

  Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over. --Mark Twain

• Obesity Trends per CDC

  http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/trends.html You can check out the progress of America's increasing BMI by state, since 1985, on this govt page. The…

• QotD: Floyd Dominy on his Grand Canyon river trip

  It was boring! Boring. How could it be anything else? You can't see out from the bottom of a canyon. --Floyd Dominy (Dominy died in 2010 at…

• Awesome photographs of storms over the prarie

  Several incredible shots here.…

• QotD: Voluntary Simplicity

  I have enough money in the bank now to buy enough beans and rice for twenty-five years. To the end (sometimes longed for). Why not kidnap Suzy and…

• Herbs: Ligusticum porteri aka OSHA root (and other sp)

  FAMILY: Apiaceae (parsley family) SPECIES: porteri COMMON NAMES: loveroot, OSHA, osha root, Porter's lovage, Porter's licorice-root, lovage, wild…