Category: Health & Fitness
2,401,088 - Yes, Really It Was
For years I have periodically worn a pedometer, but in 2024 I did something different. I wore a pedometer every single day of the year and each day I recorded the reading. The total was the number in the title of this…
By robrose
Walking Warsaw the Nordic Way
One of my passions, as regular readers may know, is walking, preferably through countryside or forest, but if all else fails just a stroll around the city neighbourhoods. I find it relaxing and a good way to clear my…
By travellinbob
The Importance of Listening
Cardinal Francis George Listens - The late Francis Cardinal George, Archbishop of Chicago from 1997 to 2014, listens to a child while visiting a Chicago parish for Mass, circa. 2008. A recent quote attributed to him:…
By fjcasella
Can you guess the emotion?
Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are. (Niccolò Machiavelli)…
By Cezar
Give it a Name!
And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the…
By Cezar
Before going into space
I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me. It’s not like I don’t know what that feels like: being in a big empty house, and the footsteps echoing through the hallway, no one there - and…
By Cezar
As Time Slips Away
Photo: 'Passing Through' - A dark, monochrome scene features a yard with a large tree, a swing, and a small shed in the background. The mood is eerie, with shadows casting over the garden structures. The swing is left…
By fjcasella
Is it True? Yes or Not?
Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well. (Gore Vidal)…
By Cezar
The Art of Standing: A Masterpiece of Human Movement
Standing is the result of an intricate and highly coordinated system at work.To maintain posture and move with elegance, everything from the diaphragm, which governs breathing, to the bones in the feet must be…
By T.UTSUNOMIYA
The Mysteries of Intra-abdominal and Atmospheric Pressure
Resonating with the Cosmos through Breathing…
By T.UTSUNOMIYA
What does "being close" means?
"We were close. I hadn't talked to them for a couple of months, but everything was normal and everything was good." (Gene Hackman's daughter’s words after her father was found dead a couple of days ago)…
By Cezar