“Let’s be clear,” says Edzard Ernst, emeritus professor of complementary medicine at Exeter University, “there are two types of detox: one is respectable and the other isn’t.” The respectable one,…
I am concerned enough for everyone I am changing hosts and everything seems to be in flux. I have to remember I paid for this confusion.
wilful misconceptions about homelessness: that it is a lifestyle choice, which oddly becomes more popular during periods of nationwide economic ruin; that poverty is down to personal failure; that kindness…
more than 70% of contemporary visual artists who took part in publicly funded exhibitions in the last three years received no fee. via Not paying artists deeply entrenched in gallery…
Then Williams cleared her throat and quoted her father’s poem from memory: “Have compassion for everyone you meet,/ even if they don’t want it. What seems conceit,/ bad manners, or…
Yesterday I devoted the day to marketing my art. I committed to one full day a week and it seems to be effective. I started out giving myself permission to…
THE GUEST HOUSE This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome…
“I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I’ve been knocking from the inside!” – Rumi
Two new studies regarding heartbeats and virtual worlds. Apparently the heartbeat has a powerful influence. Eindhoven University of Technology (2011, April 8). Personal touch: Hearing a heartbeat has the same…
