The Apple, The Whole Apple, and Nothing But The Apple.

...So help me tree.

   See apple sauce.
An Autumn journey.
   Thank you tree.

Feeling Cultured?

I feel like making yogurt...
mostly because we have so many Nancy's containers building up around the house.
We reuse them for many things, but have still hit our tipping point.

Plain Yogurt is simple and healthy, and even some lactose intolerant people can eat it since the process involves the yogurt cultures consuming the lactose in the milk.

Most historical accounts attribute yogurt to the Neolithic peoples of Central Asia around 6000 B.C.. Read more.


If you learn best by reading, check out this site with yogurt making instructions. The technique is slightly different from the video which uses a single pot boiling method.


If you are more visual, check out this video.

I will report back on my experiments. I am sensing homemade fro-yo this Summer...

Gifts for body...

Or, gifted body.

Don't let your yoga practice be obsolete. You can do this one day.

Anniversary Post- Tech-Fasting

It has been a little over a year now...


My Tech-Fast has concluded.

It was a good run.

Since I work on a computer, I decided to NOT spend my free time doing computer related things.
The blog suffered.
I did not.

Try fasting.

There has been a raising of awareness on how important it is to get time away from the screen.

Check this out:




Tech Fasting

For those of you who may need treatment:

Net Addiction Recovery

First U.S. rehab for Internet and online video game addicts opens in Washington state

According to reStart's Web site, current research suggests anywhere from 6% to 10% of the online population is dependent upon one or more aspects of cyber technology and the Internet - with multi-user gamers like World of Warcraft among the most addictive platforms.

Compulsive gamers, texters and Web browsers trade instant messaging and conquering fictional galaxies for bottle-feeding baby goats and building chicken coops on the five-acre Heavensfield Retreat Center.

"It is about helping people addicted to technology get through the withdrawal and help their brains get wired back to normal and connected to the world in a positive way," said Cash.

The live-in retreat is not cheap. The 45-day digital detox costs $14,500, plus cash for daily expenses like renting camping gear for wilderness adventures.

ReStart subscribes to a 12-step program, similar to drug and alcohol abuse and schools residents with a series of social skills workshops to reenter the real world.

"The typical gamer is somebody who has fallen way behind in social skills and lacks confidence," Cash explained.

Besides teaching conversation skills and how to read body language, reStart says that videogame addicts also typically need to be reprogrammed to be conscientious about everyday habits such as bathing, cooking and household chores - not to mention dating.

But the program's first patient seems to be doing well. He's discovered a love for animals while caring for a puppy, baby goats and chickens.

"He is thriving and his social skills are improving by leaps and bounds," said Cash. "He is finding himself very successful with the young women he encounters."

Walking.

f*la·neur
Pronunciation: flä-'n&r
Function: noun
Etymology: French flâneur
Date: 1854
: an idle man-about-town

In "On some motifs on Baudelaire" Walter Benjamin creates a new concept, le flaneur.
"The greater the sum of those who use any urban space, the more offensive the rude indifference for the others seems to be" The mist-space is itself a protective place.

"Le flaneur" (the wanderer) passes by with a certain skill in the human rumble of the metropolis. His
attitude is the opposite to that quoted above. He is fascinated by the other show performed and forgets
himself. His person is not the most important, as the blase's, but the possibility of anonymously
hiding in the crowd and of abandoning himself to its fascination.

"The street becomes a dwelling for the flâneur; he is as much at home among the facades of houses
as a citizen is in his four walls. To him the shiny, enameled signs of businesses are at least as good
a wall ornament as an oil painting is to the bourgeois in his salon. The walls are the desk against
which he presses his notebooks; news-stands are his libraries and the terraces of cafés are the
balconies from which he looks down on his household after his work is done."

Walter Benjamin, 1938

Special Thanks to Flaneur Productions for the Walter Benjamin quote.

To hear the pronunciation, click here.

I read recently that the tradition of strolling around Paris has been in serious decline due to automobile and truck traffic. I am going to try it anyways in December.

Strolling around San Francisco is rarely fun due to cars rolling through stop signs and trying to get ahead of pedestrians. There is plenty of impatience.