Many of you know about my friendship with Robert Crayhon, author, nutritionist and all-around good person. Unfortunately, many of you also know of his fight with stage IV colorectal cancer. I’d like to bring you an update on his condition and ask that you help him out if you can with either a donation or [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Compassion'
Update on my Friend, Robert Crayhon
May 4th, 2010 · No Comments
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Why We Are Really in the Mess We Are In
May 20th, 2009 · Comments Off
The problem with the American society today is that we forgot that hard work and compassion and not over consumption is what made us a great country. We think that we have to have a bigger house, a better car, fancier clothes and more money than our neighbor that twisted our minds away from what truly [...]
Tags: Compassion · Economy · Opinion · Politics · Rants · The World We Live In · Thoughts
Sometimes, Being Nice Comes Back in a Big Way
May 14th, 2009 · Comments Off
Just got one of those feel good emails I felt like sharing with everyone. Thanks to Frank Cook for the big smile I got after reading it.
His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for
help coming from [...]
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Today’s Tough Economic Times
January 5th, 2009 · No Comments
Aside from former Senator Lindsey Graham’s opinion that we should stop whining and that things are OK, today’s economic environment is tough, no doubt about it. There are a lot of good things that hopefully will come out of it though. The first is that we, as a society get away from the greed driven [...]
Tags: Compassion · Economy · Environment · Opinion · The World We Live In
A Most Disturbing Piece of Mail – A Lesson About Life
October 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Well, I knew it was bound to happen. My brother-in-law Brooke warned me, my fellow Rotarian’s laughed about it and now it has come. I was sent a membership application from AARP yesterday. Yes, the American Association of Retired Persons found out I’m turning 50 shortly. I swear I just turned 21 yesterday. How did [...]
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In Memoriam – Marie Fairchild
August 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments
The world is a lesser place now with the passing of a dear friend and one of the best people I have ever known in my life, Marie Fairchild. She was an extraordinary human being, a gifted nutritionist, a master in the use of Chinese herbs and one of the people who helped me keep [...]
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Bellevue Washington Presentation
June 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Toxicity talk from Bellevue, Washington
Here is the Powerpoint Presentation I did in Bellevue, Washington on June 26th, 2008 to the Puget Soung Functional Medicine group. Many thanks to Dr. David Musnick for inviting me to speak.
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Another National Shame – Politics Over Science
March 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
In yet another sad loss to science, the Bush Administration has superceeded science in the name of politics. Since 2001 this politically motivated administration have made it almost impossible to denote an animal species as being endangered which has already led to the extinction of a number of creatures that are part of our world. [...]
Tags: Compassion · Controversial Issues · Environment · Opinion · Politics · Rants · Science · The World We Live In
Wasting Time Being Angry
January 7th, 2008 · No Comments
Ralph Waldo Emerson put it so well when he said, “For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” As a person who sometimes is known for being overly passionate, especially when angry, his saying rings so true. There were two people in particular who, when their names were even mentioned, would [...]
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Get Smarter – Feed The World
November 16th, 2007 · No Comments
FreeRice.com is a site that you can go to and increase your vocabulary and at the same time help world hunger. The organization donates ten grains of rice for each word you take a quiz on. That may not seem much but in the past month and a half, they have managed to donate 1,712,371,750 [...]
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