Help Quarantined Kids Stay Calm and Collected
A lot of us are wondering how to keep ourselves busy and as anxiety free as possible, but what about the kids? Even if none
A lot of us are wondering how to keep ourselves busy and as anxiety free as possible, but what about the kids? Even if none
A lot of us are wondering how to keep ourselves busy and as anxiety free as possible, but what about the kids? Even if none
If human beings as a whole had figured out the secret key ingredient to falling, being, and staying in love, we’d have stopped writing about.
Alas, we haven’t. And probably won’t. Ever.
But what we have done is spent our entire collective sentient experience since the dawn of conscious personhood studying love and attraction, trying to crack the code.
And honestly? We’ve learned a lot.
In the journey of mindfulness, the intermediate stage can often feel like a plateau. You’ve mastered the basics, but perhaps you’re yearning to deepen your practice.
In years past, the scariest part about October 31st might have been going to a haunted house, the visit to the dentist you make afterwards,
“Stay out of it” is pretty much the standard distillation of analysis regarding the prison industrial complex, at least according to most public school curricula.
Not bad advice, certainly.
But in the wake of the great informational tsunami that’s flooded the shores of the West these last few months, and in keeping with our commitment to participate in a capitalist word as consciously and ethically as we can, we can’t help but dig a little deeper into two key facts:
Around 2,700 B.C.E., King Shen Nong of China made a mistake.
They say it’s just a legend, but if it’s true…
King Shen Nong changed the world forever with an oopsie.
He made tea.
And it only took the Chinese another 700 years to figure out that tea had healing properties and could be applied to herbal medicine. (A much shorter time than it took the rest of us.)