Mind Spa: Offerings of images and ideas to relax our minds and broaden our horizon.

Good Will Hunting- food for thought

How often do we “settle” for a job, relationship, or situation that doesn’t utilize our full potential because we are comfortable instead of challenging ourselves with something or someone new …

Beauty in Nature

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf. – …

Strange Creatures

There are more things in the natural world than what we can see with our eyes. I was surprised to see this image captured by my camera that I don’t …

Key to Longevity

  If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn’t ask …

“Dark thoughts” or not

  From Brian Andreas of StoryPeople… We are so surrounded by negativity sometimes that we forget that the dark thoughts require a great deal of energy to sustain and maintain. …

From a tea bag (no, not tea leaves or fortune cookie)

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. – Walter Begehot How many times have we heard others say “you can’t do that…”, believed it, …

Speaking of Bizarre Foods…

Speaking of “Bizarre Foods”, check out these offerings at the famous Night Market in Beijing, China.  

“Spiced” is definitely subjective

Recent episodes of “Bizarre Foods” on Travel Channel were all about spicy foods- from Korean cuisine in Seoul to Caribbean foods in the Bronx. It reminded me of one of our …

False News

In the past week , much attention was paid to “false news” and worse, people who took action based on “false news”. There really is nothing new about “false news”. …

Meaning of Dawn

It is quite curious how context alters meaning. To a day person, dawn is start of a refreshing new day.  For a natural night owl, we see dawn only “from …