The quest for safe, nutritious food that tastes delicious is an on-going adventure. All the gleaming packages of food at the grocery store and multiple restaurants to choose from home cooked food seems the safest. All that cooking practice is starting to pay off.
To buy a loaf of bread in the 1970's and 80's took about 10 minutes for someone making the federal minimum wage. By 2010 it was taking nearly 24 minutes.
The censorship worked.
Until the music videos of Buffy Sainte-Marie was included in a diary last week I was not aware of Buffy Sainte-Marie. Too young to for her record career and too old for Sesame Street performances. A strong example of a resilient person.
Prudent economy of living a necessity when one has low income or a useful tool to shift dollars towards personal goals. Minimizing dollars directed to corporations, increasing donations to favorite causes, building a retirement or keeping a roof over ones head.
Watching the skilled hands of a craftsman can be memorizing. Timeless traditions of shaping of wood, metal, clay, grasses and fibers into useful objects for daily life. So many item can be bought ready made, it seems there is no need to increase the skills of hands beyond typing and pressing buttons on the remote. Are we loosing part of our humanity by increasingly focusing on mind development?
Recipes are one method to distribute of knowledge and skills to create items and events. Just mix the information: ingredients, instructions and an expected outcome. It is a matter of finding the right recipes, experimenting and perfecting.
To bounce back from hardship is one expression of resilience. Another common theme is to be able to provide the basics of food, shelter and health in the event of modern civilization disruptions. Maybe more important is the ability to maintain civil dialog and open communication with whom one disagrees, disapproves of or feels intimidated.
Good morning - Nothing profound today simply a couple of ideas on gardening and health I have found useful.
Interesting little study published last month looking at the quality of play in toddlers and the number of toys they have available.
With fewer toys, participants had fewer incidences of toy play, longer durations of toy play, and played with toys in a greater variety of ways. This suggests that when provided with fewer toys in the environment, toddlers engage in longer periods of play with a single toy, allowing better focus to explore and play more creatively.
Adults are not significantly different than toddlers when it comes to toys or as we often call them tools. The question is - How are we decreasing our creativity by thinking we need a specific tool or app (software program) for every task.
