Bang and Whimper

for eternal bliss
long life, sunshine, happiness
drink coffee daily

black pants, round bottom
callipygous roman muse*
train girl, i love you

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While checking Amazon for something else entirely, I saw that the welcome page was promoting a book [currently ranked 6th in sales at Amazon] on “spiritual healing” by a certain Caroline Myss, Ph.D. I love how they always put ‘Ph.D.’ after their name; whenever I see that, I KNOW the book is crap. My curiosity piqued, I clicked on the book to see what junk was contained inside, and it was pretty bad [don’t take my word for it, go and see for yourself]. So I went on over to Myss.com to find out what “Dr.” Myss got her doctorate in. It says on her bio page that she earned a Ph.D. in “Energy Medicine” from Greenwich University, an “autonomous accredited university.” I’d never heard of Greenwich University, and I had no idea how “Energy Medicine” could be taught at an “accredited university.” A little research was in order.

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Saturday, I went with a couple of friends to hike Old Rag in Shenandoah National Park. It was a hot day, and we got a late start—we started the approximately 8 mile hike around noon. For about the first third of the hike, I was sure I was going to die. I was hot, thirsty and I’m horribly out of shape, so my heart was pumping extra hard. It was great, though, to be out of doors, and because we started so late, we saw very few people on the trail. Shenandoah is beautiful, and as we approached the top of the mountain, we could look out across the valley below and see for miles. The trees below looked like a great green plush carpet ready to soften a fall from the heights.

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