Sea Horses Forever

Maybe white trash america should be a bit afraid?

My last patient today told me she moved back to good ol' Montany from the south because "there were too many black people there." Maybe she saw the expression on my face, so she added in "too much crime...too many drugs."

Here's a video of my childhood hero (Pete Seeger, not Bruce Springsteen)...and so watching this tonight I am thinking...oh yeah, maybe all those filled with intolerance and hatred for those different than themselves...maybe all the those who seek to make themselves feel better by putting down another, whether because of race, gender or whatever...maybe they should be a teeny tiny bit afraid, because believe it or not...we are gonna rock your world.

Here's the love, y'all:



May the new prez and his wife have a long life, filled with love!

As if We Needed a Study

Coffee reduces Alzheimer's risk: study

January 16, 2009

Middle-aged people who drink moderate amounts of coffee significantly reduce their risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, a study by Finnish and Swedish researchers showed Thursday.

"Middle-aged people who drank between three and five cups of coffee a day lowered their risk of developing dementia and Alzheimer's disease by between 60 and 65 per cent later in life," said lead researcher on the project, Miia Kivipelto, a professor at the University of Kuopio in Finland and at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

The study, which was also conducted in cooperation with the National Public Health Institute in Helsinki and which was published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease this month, was based on repeated interviews with 1,409 people in Finland over more than two decades.

They were first asked about their coffee-drinking habits when they were in their 50s and their memory functions were tested again in 1998, when they were between 65 and 79 years of age.

A total of 61 people had by then developed dementia, 48 of whom had Alzheimer's, the researchers said.

"There are perhaps one or two other studies that have shown that coffee can improve some memory functions (but) this is the first study directed at dementia and Alzheimer's (and) in which the subjects are followed for such a long time," Kivipelto told AFP.

She said it remained unclear exactly how moderate coffee drinking helped delay or avoid the onset of dementia, but pointed out that coffee contains strong antioxidants, which are known to counter Alzheimer's.

Some studies have also shown that coffee helps protects the nerve system, which can also protect against dementia, she said, pointing out that yet other studies show that coffee protects against diabetes, which in turn is known to be linked to Alzheimer's.

"Going forward, researchers should try to nail down exactly what the protective elements in coffee consist in," Kivipelto said.

The Finnish-Swedish research results surfaced just a day after a separate study published by psychologists at Durham University showed a link between heavy coffee drinking and hallucinations.

"I guess this shows that you shouldn't exaggerate," Kivipelto said when asked about the British study, pointing out that her research showed "insignificant" benefits to drinking more than five cups of coffee a day when it came to protecting against dementia.

"Too much is simply too much," she said.

Home Made Stew

I think there may be a novel here.

As I was cooking meself up a batch of Montany style stew, alå Julia Child, with gallons of red wine, I suddenly realized that almost every person is brought up with this idea of how to make stew, or how to make stuffing, or apple pie. And of course, it is rare that anyone can make it as well as you might be able to do. I feel that way especially about stew...and stuffing...well, and apple pie, too...

Anyway, I made this big batch of delicious stew today, and then went out to dinner and saw Grand Torino, which is a pretty amazing Buddhist story. I hope you all get a chance to see it, along with two other amazing, lovely, thought provoking movies, both with this Buddhist themes (or as Ams would say...boody themes.) The two other shows are Doubt and Benjamin Button. Now, I understand that my brother and his wife did not care for the BB movie, and so be it. It is long, but I loved it because it is about love and besides that I am in love with Kate Winslett and Meryl Streep. MS was not in BB, but she was the uptight nun in doubt.

Tonight, I am feeling appreciative for everyone in my life. Family, friends, dogs, cats, rats...thanks y'all. Love.

Sixteen Things

This is from my Facebook page...it is a silly Facebook thing that gets passed around. How about if you comment by writing 16 things about yourself?

SIXTEEN THINGS

1. When I was 15 or so (1969?), my birthday present from my sister, Sarah, was to go to the French film festival in Hollywood, and at the first film I saw Joni Mitchell.

2. I was made to go outside and "hold up a pole" in 7th grade, because I refused to salute the flag. (big surprise. eh?) David Harris wrote to me from prison. (Diamonds and Rust)

3. I ran away from home when I was 16, got arrested by a cop in Kingman, Arizona, who would have let met go if I screwed him. My folks came to pick me up and a week later, let me go to the Renaissance Pleasure Faire, where I did all sorts of things.

4. I fell in love for the first time when I was 14.

5. My sister saved my life when I was young, and now I save hers. (sometimes)

6. I used to go topless on the beaches of Venice, California.

7. I have a Froggy Bottom Guitar and had guitar lessons...

8. I loved my dad, who had huge blue eyes, was born with congenital cataracts that weren't discovered until he was 5 years old and killed himself when he was 63, which is the exact age that Ernest Hemingway shot himself. One if my friend's aunts was the third wife of Hemingway.

9. My best friend in grammar school, Lois, is a lawyer in Fullerton. We used to take her German Shepard, Maria, with us everywhere. One time, Janice Joplin asked us to go buy her some beer, but we couldn't because we were only like 14 or so.

10. I had Thanksgiving dinner with Bonnie Raitt.

11. I was a midwife for many years and went to more than 200 births. Sometimes I miss that middle of the night stillness.

12. I love watching House.

13. I lived in France for almost a year and never had one glass of wine, nor one éclair

14. I still have a huge crush on Meryl Streep and Susan Sarandon.

15. I used to write poetry, kind of, and wrote the lyrics to two songs that have been recorded. And have two or three secret blogs.

16. I was married to a French man named Pierre Horny, who was from Lunéville, France..yep that's Pierre Horny from Lunéville.

In my times of trouble

OK, now that we have all (well, most of us anyway) been cleansed properly, I would like to introduce a dear friend of mine. She is the most awesome virgin anyone could meet, oops, I mean person.

Has anyone noticed that there is some light now at 6 PM...as soon as the darkest day comes round, it starts to get light.

Gawd, am I profound or what???

Full moon

I hope everyone had a good flush last night! I decided to wait, since I ate some chili con carne and corn...

Happy full moon, full life and everything else.

Increase Focus and Energy

Lebanese

Che - Did you know this?

Guevara's body was then lashed to the landing skids of a helicopter and flown to nearby Vallegrande where photographs were taken, showing a figure described by some as "Christ-like" lying on a concrete slab in the laundry room of the Nuestra Señora de Malta hospital.

A declassified memorandum dated October 11, 1967 to United States President Lyndon B. Johnson from his National Security Advisor, Walt Whitman Rostow, called the decision to kill Guevara "stupid" but "understandable from a Bolivian standpoint." After the execution, Rodríguez took several of Guevara's personal items, including a watch which he continued to wear many years later, often showing them to reporters during the ensuing years. Today, some of these belongings, including his flashlight, are on display at the CIA. After a military doctor amputated his hands, Bolivian army officers transferred Guevara's body to an undisclosed location and refused to reveal whether his remains had been buried or cremated. The hands were preserved in formaldehyde to be sent to Buenos Aires for fingerprint identification. (His fingerprints were on file with the Argentine police.) They were later sent to Cuba. On October 15, Castro acknowledged that Guevara was dead and proclaimed three days of public mourning throughout the island. On October 18, Castro addressed a crowd of almost one million people in Havana and spoke about Guevara's character as a revolutionary.

^{May all disenfranchised people of the world be liberated.}