Do Travel Writers Go To Hell? by Thomas Kohnstamm

A comic rogue who seems to have modeled his life and prose on Hunter S. Thompson’s… I could not get enough of the most depraved travel book of the year.

Un-Natural Selection

Hiking on Paynes Prairie yesterday, we watched a large flock of turkeys strutting among the dog fennel and salt bush plants. But we were also a bit horrified...

How to Cheat Time

Interested in living a long life?

The Food Issue - Why Jonathan Safran Foer Chose to Give Up Meat - NYTimes.com

Changing what we eat and letting tastes fade from memory create a kind of cultural loss, a forgetting.

Hanshan (poet)

Hanshan (Chinese: 寒山; pinyin: Hánshān; literally "Cold Mountain", fl. 9th century) was a legendary figure associated with a collection of poems from the Chinese Tang Dynasty in the Taoist and Chan tradition. He is honored as an incarnation of the Bodhisattva -figure Manjusri in Zen lore.

The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism--Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.

Hacked E-Mail Is New Fodder for Climate Dispute

Hundreds of private e-mail messages and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change.

Blue Zones

When people think of living longer, they think about their body.They think about exercise, diet and nutrition. But research shows that state of ones mind is as important, if not more, than the state of ones body.

Nasi Goreng: An easy Indonesian style dish for a busy lifestyle [Anna's cooking at home series "The Quick and Tasty"#1] | elephant journal

http://yosan.edu/pdf/august2009.pdf

QiGong Classes

Acupuncture School Los Angeles - Traditional Chinese Medicine TCM

This school teaches the form of QiGong offered at the Seaside Hostel in Portland,OR

Spirituality of Tea: God's Blessing for your Mind, Body, and Spirit

There's Peace of Mind for the health of your mind. Then tea is the Fountain of Youth for your body. And your spirit? That's where tea is the Tree of Life. Spirituality of Tea explores these three, inseparable from each other. It's healing for your whole person.

Bad Armadillo Vineyard - Winemaking

A small vineyard describes their winemaking process

madison.com - Red Bikes

Bike Sharing Scheme in Madison, WI

Remember Be Here Now (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Remember Be Here Now is the title of a 1971 book on spirituality and meditation by Ram Dass. The title derives from a repeated teaching of his guide and companion, Bhagavan Das.