Tall tales and other thoughts from storyteller, sailor and nomad Dennison Berwick. "Kuan Yin" is his 32-foot go-anywhere home.
Posted in Books/Language, Life skills on Jun 10th, 2010
Journalist Michael Pollan has written three books on food. His newest (published in paperback in December 2009) is called “Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual”. It’s a list of guidelines about food – real food, how to identify it and know what is not food, but what Pollan calls “edible food-like substances”?
How conscious are you about [...]
Posted in Life skills, Reportage/Stories on Feb 12th, 2010
You are what you eat, having become what you ate. I’ve written two previous posts about food and some of the alarming aspects of what’s on our plates, how it got there and what it’s doing to the land, the people, the animals and society.
I am very grateful to my friend Professor Magdalena Krondl, Professor [...]
Posted in Reportage/Stories on Feb 11th, 2010
You are what you eat, having become what you ate. Not the exact words of the Buddha two and half thousand years ago. What he said, in the opening words of the Dhammapada, was, ” You are what you think, having become what you thought.” Not so very different, I would argue.
So what do you [...]
Posted in Reportage/Stories on Jan 25th, 2010
“You are what you think,
Having become what you thought,”
according to the Buddha. He might also have added, “You are what you eat, having become what you ate.”
When you start to think about it – what a lot of us put in our mouth and swallow is actually pretty shocking. It’s as if there there’s a [...]
"Serendipity" is the art of finding something valuable or delightful when you're not looking for it. It's how you might also define living life as an adventure - which is something I seek to do everyday - and accepting whatever happens.
