Feel Good Friday...Saving Seeds

There are fewer greater pleasures than the growing, picking and eating your own food. This morning I picked tomatoes and zucchini for my lunch. It just feels better in my body. The whole process feels better. The food tastes better. If I was a wheat or corn farmer I would not get that pleasure. Our system of mono-agricultural is robbing us of some very simple and important things. In this video a man in India has started to regenerate the indigenous seeds that fed the nation.

See it here:
http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=3327

Commit to growing and eating some food. Support organic farmers and community supported agriculture. Enough is enough. We can do better.

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John
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Feel Good Friday...Embrace Life

Is there anyone out there who doesn’t wear their seatbelt EVERY time you get in your car? Really? You don’t? What! Seriously folks it maybe the simplest thing every to do and the most important thing you can do for your health and safety. Check out this 90second video that brings the point home so poignantly:

http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=3341

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Feel Good Friday...Food People Power

At the end of the day the one thing you can control is what you put in your mouth, the food you eat. Recently one of my students went to the local Quik-Stop store. He had $2.00 to spend. If he bought a soda (89 cents) he could buy something else also. A bottle of water was almost $2.00. So rather than drinking water from the tap he chose the soda and some candy. He could have made lots of different choices. He chose not to.

In inner city Oakland residents are now being offered wider and better food choices. It is a start. Fresh fruits and vegetables available in local corner markets. It is the beginning of what I hope is a food revolution…one that will have everyone with access to fresh and healthy food so their choice isn’t limited to the “O’s” (fri-tOs, doritOs, hohOs, etc) or cheap candy.

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http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=2476

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Feel Good Friday...The Opposite of Poverty is Justice

I really don’t want to go into all the statistics about poverty and the incarceration of the poor. Suffice it to say it is bad, really bad. We have been looking at the problem backwards…it may not be that someone deserves to die for their crimes but do we have the right to kill them for their crime.
The opposite of Poverty is not wealth but Justice. We will not be judged by our progress in Technology but rather how we treat the least among us…the poor, the incarcerated, the elderly, and the disabled.
We can do better than we are doing. We need to realize that as an interconnected society the least among us are weighing the rest of us down. We need to lift those people up through hope and change.
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http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=3072

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Feel Good Friday...Why I Dance

If your heart beats you can begin to dance. If you can walk, you can dance. Dance is like talking without words. Dance is the outward physical expression of music. Dance, for me, is the expression of my soul in movement. Why do you dance?

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http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=3250

“To those who cannot hear the music the dancers appear to be crazy.”

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Feel Good Friday...Peaches Neet Feet

If you want to change the world you need to start with yourself. Then you can change the world of just one person. And the world is changed. Here is the story of how one girl is changing the world. It is moving and wonderful.

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Feel Good Friday...Seeing

One of the most powerful experiences I have ever had is spending 23 hours blind. It was one of the requirements for my Ultimate Black Belt Test. I went to bed blindfolded and awoke in the dark. You really don’t know all the things you miss, all the things you take for granted until you suddenly can no longer see them.
This is perfection all around us. There are extraordinary sights and visions to be seen if we just open our eyes to them. Go ahead start seeing what you can see. Both literally and metaphorically…see what you can see.

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http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=3155

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