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The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

Here are the winners:

1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for [...]

Insight despite herself

Dr. Weeks Comment:   Although disturbing to read, this interview reveals that Casey had a spirit which knew that life is about service. It is tragic that she was not able to rise above her circumstances and use that precious insight. Perhaps her death will serve as a motivating force for others.

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Casey Johnson [...]

Plants hurt too when you eat them.

Dr. Weeks’ Comment:    No surprise here: we are all one, afterall and just because we more easily empathize with those beings most similar to us, doesn’t mean we are not all related, or actually one in the sense of inter-being.   So my advice, before taking and consuming anything – flesh or plant, cultivate a sense [...]

Thoreau on Hebe from Walden

From Thoreau’s Walden

….Well worth another read.
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“I am no worshipper of Hygeia, who was the daughter of that old herb-doctor Æsculapius, and who is represented on monuments holding a serpent in one hand, and in the other a cup out of which the serpent sometimes drinks; but rather of Hebe, [...]

Whistleblowers – headed to extinction?

The whistleblower’s unending story
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WHISTLING_IN_THE_DARK_ABRIDGED?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US
TBO.com – News From AP

 
By ADAM GELLER
AP National Writer

 

 

 

 

 

 

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The guest lecturer steps to the front of classroom 322 with a lesson plan, but not from any textbook.
Instead, Dave Welch comes with a story to tell, edgy and very personal. The names have [...]