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I listened to a recent On Being episode with Jill Tarter, co-founder of SETI, an organization that tries to detect signals from distant planets and galaxies. She’s the one who inspired Jodie Foster’s character in the movie Contact, which is one of my favorites.
One of the most interesting points she made is that a signal coming from a galaxy in distant space would take so long to reach us that the civilization who sent the message might already be gone.
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There are those in my friend group who I would describe as best friends. If I had to identify one common thread that links them together, it is that they are all really good at letting me arrive at my own conclusions.
This is something I value in a friendship, and it’s also something I try to instill in my own life as a trainer, consultant, and college professor.
When you’ve on Instagram or Facebook or some other service, it’s important to stop and ask occasionally how much of someone’s life you’re seeing.
When I see people they’ll often say, “well, looks like you’re doing great!”
I respond that I am, but I always wonder how they feel so confident .After all, I generally don’t post my fears and anxieties and insecurities to social media (I save that for this blog).
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One of the most prominent features of a diet is restrictions. Some diets restrict calories, while other diets restrict certain macronutrients. But the more coherent doctors that I’ve heard speak indicate that macronutrients (protein, fat, and carbs) are actually all good. That it’s more about how our body processes certain types of foods, particularly processed food.
There’s a parallel when it comes to emotions.
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It’s different than reading a magazine article, or even a book.
A poem affords a certain kind of freedom to its creator, the type of rule-less-ness that produces creativity, that connects disjointed ideas, that makes a person see themselves in the past, present, and future all at the same time.
We can let poems guide us, both in reading them and writing them.