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My favorite quotes from the book are: It's hard to change the way our families eat.  Although we know what we should be eating--more fruits and vegetables and as little processed food as possible--we don't do it.  or, even if we prepare healthy food, our children won't eat it. Ask my children what their favorte foods are, and the answer might surprise you (ours likes asparagus, sunny-side up eggs, and stinky blue cheese). French adults spend twice as much time as Americans eating, and they consume foods like butter, pork, and cheese in apparently uninhibited quantities, yet are less overweight (and very rarely obeses) and have lower rates of heart disease... French parents gently compel their children to eat healthy food.  They expect their kids to eat everything they are served, uncomplainingly. "Sophie is just like me... I hated vegetables when I was young."  "Mais non!", I was told, "she just hasn't tried them enought times yet.  When she's really hungry try them again.  Then she'll eat anything and everything." The word "education" covers a lot of ground in French... the goal is to procue a child... who is well spoken, well mannered and well behaved. The cantine [at schoo is the same for everyone, no choice].  "But what if the kids don't like what is being served that day?"  "They go hungry!"  "School is about learning lots of things." The French think that lunch should be the biggest and most important meal of the day... (by government decree) the hcildren spent a minimum of thirty minutes at the table.  The French system is a highly perfected peer-pressure-driven food diversification program. Parents schedule meals and menus.  Kids eat what adults eat:  no substitutes and no

The ethical questions surrounding the pursuit and consumption of game can be complex, but there is no denying the excitement of the flavors and textures found in wild animals. Something about the untamed nature of their habitats is reflected in their taste—a distinct “gaminess” that sets them apart. Diet plays a role, whether the animal feeds on wild grains, grasses, grubs, insects, or berries, but so does the physical reality of life in the wild. Game animals must constantly expend energy avoiding predators, resulting in leaner, denser muscles, particularly in the breasts and wings. Exercise may, in fact, be the defining factor in what we describe as gaminess. “Game” refers to birds and mammals hunted both for sport and for the table. Only a small proportion of this meat is truly wild, and these animals are generally regarded as the most sporting. Managed shoots and reared birds are secondary to truly wild species—such as ducks, geese, and upland grouse—that largely resist raise-and-release efforts. This is not a judgment on their value in the kitchen, where game, wild or managed, offers something wholly distinct from the ordinary. Ultimately, the consumer must answer two questions: do I want to participate in the sport known as hunting, and do I want to support it by purchasing its end product? In this respect, hunters are not so different from those who choose only organically sourced foods at places like Whole Foods. The goal is the same: organic, free-range vegetables and meats. I eat game with pleasure not because it is a God-given right, but because it represents good husbandry. Through our engagement with the wild—or semi-wild—we remain connected to the land. Our lives are intertwined with the lives of

Jeff is a good friend of ours now and we have two dogs out of his kennels. His methods are similar to my dog trainer’s, Gary Ruppel, but it’s always interesting to see how trainers accomplish the same results with slightly different methods. First thing that Jeff uses that is different is a puppy check cord. His are made from 8’ of nylon rope. I opted for orange Sterling Ropes 5mm Accessory Cord, which is better looking and not as burning on your hands. Tie off a swivel snap using a bowline knot. Jeff likes to put an over hand knot in the end of the rope. This is a lighter And shorter version of a drag check cord, great for puppies and which doubles as a leash. A second thing is a raised kennel which looks like a rabbit hutch for the puppies. Not sure why yet, but it looks good and makes it easy to get puppies out. The next thing is short chain tie outs for dogs. Jeff has them everywhere from the tow points below the bumper of his truck to the side of his horse trailer to the side of his kennels. I have to admit they come in handy. D.T. Systems Remote Bird Launcher 500 Series

You can look at blankets from Hudson Bay Company (Canada), Pendleton Mills (Oregon), Woolrich (Pennsylvania), Fairbuilt Mills (Minnesota) and see a lot of similarities.  They are are warm and heavy and have been made for over 100 years.  Which are the best?  The answer is, it depends. The HBC blanket, in King (which is 8 points for the plebian, as points designates the size), weighs 10 pounds, the Pendelton 8.5, and the Fairbuilt is currently 6.5, so they are clearly different weights of wool (thicknesses).  So if you want the heaviest weight, get the HBC.  You can even get it with fur sewn onto the blanket, such as this one. https://www.thebay.com/main/ProductDetail.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302023949&PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524441826345&R=886456857241&P_name=Hudson%27s+Bay+Company&N=4294966910+302023949&bmUID=mrF2BxA For the Rocky Mountains, Pendleton is more iconic and has more contemporary and old southwest and SW native American patterns than HBC.    The weight is slightly less and, for the price, you could buy almost two Pendletons now for one HBC, so it makes sense in terms of the amount of wool used.  The Fairbuilt is even less thick and the price reflects that, but these blankets are very popular in Minnesota and surrounding areas.  So get what you like, but understand why the prices are different, as the amount of wool used is different for each brand.  The quality is exceptional on all of these.

Wild Wild Country is a Netflix documentary series about the controversial Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho), his one-time personal assistant Ma Anand Sheela, and their community of followers in the Rajneeshpuram community located in Wasco County, Oregon.[1][2][3] It was released on Netflix on March 16, 2018, after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.[3][4][5][6] Turns out though that Osho wasn't crazy. He was a philisophy major in India, who became known as a sage. He was all over the place in lectures, having said he had read 150,00 books, which I believe may have been true. This created something of a cult following, but there was no control exerted by Osho over his followers, though other "leaders" of the commune may have had other ideas for power. He said meditation in the medicine. The mind is nothing but subtle matter, it can be changed easily. If you are generous you are rich. If you want to be rich, be generous. The riches life has endowed you with are not limited. A lawyer and he lives by words, because court is the very temple of this world. Have you seen the buildings of high courts? They are the temples now. Much is wasted on them. Why? The temples have become tiny but the High Court buildings, I’m getting higher and higher and bigger and bigger. In fact the power is there – the power of violence and murder camera the power of law and language in logic. The lawyer is a logician. The mind is time. Conciousness is eternity. His books are a surprisingly interesting samplings from all of the world's major religions and philosophers, as his his Dynamic Meditation technique. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbfVcigkNao&feature=youtu.be His mediation starts out very similar to Wim Hof's breathing methods, before he plunges into freezing