We had a chance meeting in 2016 a vegan restaurant in Granada, Spain when I was traveling with my daughter to see the Alhambra. He was sitting next to us when he asked if he could join us for dinner. He was there doing a Spanish immersion course. We talked for 2 hours. He was…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Eben Fine Park in Boulder, 2018
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.