I jot down random tidbits from books that I read. Here are some things that caught my attention in 2012. Power of Now – Eckhardt Tolle: Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. All of these things you will have to relinquish sooner or later. To be identified with your mind…
Author: Sameer Oza
Plant based diet – tips from Peggy
My wife Peggy is the reason we can all eat a plant based diet while getting a balanced nutrition. She says that “vegans avoid all animal origin foods. A well planned plant based diet can be healthy if sufficient and varied foods are eaten. The China Study showed that if a person consumes less than…
Endurance athletes and ventricular scar
37% of highly trained endurance athletes had scar (focal late gadolinium enhancement) on their MRI which is a 10-fold increase over normal. Below is a cross section of the ventricles. The yellow arrow points to the scar. Inclusion criteria for the study were: (a) highly-trained endurance athletes (20–45 years) who had trained for a minimum of…
in memoriam – jake
Jake came into our life in 2013, just as we bought a cabin in the Colorado mountains. We adopted him from Mile High GSP rescue as an adult. Thank you Judy and Caleb! We don’t know much about his life before us except that he was found on the side of a road in Kansas…
idaho/tetons 2020
colorado road trip
beauty close to home
Eben Fine Park in Boulder, 2018
2016 utah
2020-05-17 Colorado
Colorado has a plethora of inspiring landscapes and fauna. My favorite picture of last week however was the beaver skull in my backyard in Marble – it turns out beavers have iron in their enamel which makes their teeth orange.
ireland 2019
Ireland is green for a reason – it rains a lot. I have not seen so many shades of green as I did in Ireland. Here are some samples: