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I Like Your Ponytail, A Story About CommitmentI Like Your Ponytail, A Story About Commitment

“I like your ponytail.” I said in a playful manner. “Ponytail?” he repeated in a thick French accent. There and then began the most extraordinary odyssey of my life.…

Avoid 90% of the Pesticides in Food, by Avoiding 12 Foods

Why should you care about pesticides in your food?For starters there may be as many as twenty pesticides on a single piece of fruit you eat.…

My HeroMy Hero

Dear Mrs. Black,It was January 1967 when this 11 year-old, frightened, little Israeli girl walked into your classroom for the first time. I had only arrived in the country two weeks before.…

We Are Sexual BeingsWe Are Sexual Beings

With sex all around us, oozing out of our televisions, theaters, magazines, fashion, on the streets, one would think we are the most sexually informed, open and comfortable nation on the planet.”…

The Banking ImplosionThe Banking Implosion

I’m sure by now you all have noticed the ongoing meltdown in the mortgage industry. The cause of this whole mess is a little bit complicated, rooted in both the structure of the mortgage industry, and human nature. I’ll try to explain both factors here in layman’s terms.…

Breaking old habits; Creating new Ones

We are mostly habitual beings. Webster defines habit as an acquired mode of behavior that has become nearly or completely involuntary.…

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Bamboo is the new Black


Eco-chic is in. It is the hottest trend today. Not only is it fashionable, it is downright sexy to care about how what you wear effects our environment. In decades past, fashion has shown little respect for companies attempting to address environmental issues. Due to limited resources, or perhaps just because it was the 80’s, the products yielded were not of the best taste. Bland, scratchy and expensive, the fashionistas wanted no part of it.

Since then, there have been groundbreaking technological advances that enable designers to extend beyond the burlap-sac hemp, and bring ineffable styles to a transforming world. The contemporary market has embraced the movement, making hippies into hipsters with sophisticated luxuries, and sharp stylish suits. Environmental awareness has gone glam. It is even sashaying itself down the red carpet these days.  read more »

The Eternal Sabbath

By silent lotus

Just As love Would have it We met in the eternal sabbath Where the silence is so thunderous That it excludes Not one Of us

Somewhere

By silent lotus

In The Market Somewhere Between cinnamon Pistachios and saffron i bathed in the rays of sunrise And while the summer breeze Arrived through the arms Of the banyan trees i discovered A fragrance of silence That tasted divine

Somewhere

By silent lotus

In The Market Somewhere Between cinnamon Pistachios and saffron i bathed in the rays of sunrise And while the summer breeze Arrived through the arms Of the banyan trees i discovered A fragrance of silence That tasted divine