Weekly Articles Archive (January 30-February 6)

 

1. Strong positions are not an accident. Weak positions aren’t bad luck.

One of the most beneficial skills you can learn in life is how to consistently put yourself in a good position. The person who finds themselves in a strong position can take advantage of circumstances while others are forced into a series of poor choices. 

2. Energy, and how to get it

Energetic constraints, energetic flow, and the forces that drive energetic flow—these questions aren’t taken into account as much as they should be...The way of the future is understanding personalized energy flows. The last ten years of personalized medicine has been taken over by genomics. The premise is that if you can sequence it you’ll know whether you’ll get sick or stay healthy. That’s where all the money goes. It’s a lucrative hypothesis, but it’s doomed to yield incomplete answers. The genome is static. Health is so dynamic.

3. The Radical Woman Behind "Goodnight Moon"

When Brown was emerging as a writer, in the nineteen-thirties, most books for young children drew on classic fables and folktales, providing moral instruction on each page. She rejected this orthodoxy in favor of stories that better reflected the preoccupations of young children, from sensual pleasures (the shape of an apple) to visceral emotions (fear of the dark). When boys and girls are first exposed to reading, Brown argued, they are most engaged by stories about “tables and chairs, plates and telephones, animals they know.” Even though her work embraced everyday subjects, it was far from banal. Brown incorporated influences from avant-garde literature, concentrating as much on the sound of words as on the words themselves. And she often commissioned illustrations from modernist painters who understood the allure of bold color. Brown helped create a new type of children’s literature that provided both aural and visual feasts. 

4. The heartbreaking experience of denying a patient a blanket

Previous experiences left her little choice but to say no, even though by denying a cold patient’s request for a blanket she denied herself the compassionate gesture she desperately wanted to give, leaving her to feel chilled as well... 

Our blanket problem isn’t really about blankets. It’s a failure of something core that any system that has health and care as part of its title or mission should be able to uphold regardless of the challenges.

5. A massive human-assisted migration lands stranded sea turtles back in warmer seas.

You hear a lot in biology, ‘Why are you interfering? Shouldn’t you just let nature run its course?’ In this case, a lot of these threats are not under control. So, if we let thousands of these turtles die every year in a cold-stunning event, the population is that much smaller.

6. On a Valentine's day note... red wine infused chocolate cake!

One of the things that I really love about this cake is that it can all be made the night before and stored in the fridge until time to use! I love the ease of that and how simple it makes dinner. I mean, who wants to bake AND cook dinner all in one go? Not me.