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Study Links Rugs, Carpets to Higher Asthma Rates:
“Carpet and rugs trap dust and whatever the dust contains,” Amr said. “People sit on the rugs (and) carpet–especially children; they also wipe their shoes and whatever they bring on the soles from home or outside.”
[LaVonne says: ...and that includes pesticides and other nasty chemicals.]

Farmers are deeply wary about genetically engineered crops:
“Genetically altered plants are now ubiquitous in the United States, accounting for 68 percent of this year’s soybean crop and 69 percent of cotton. But these numbers conceal a growing unease among farmers. Between 1996 and 1999, grain prices fell as exports to Europe dropped by $2 billion. [...]

The first Toxic Times column is up and ready for you reading pleasure on the right. Enjoy!
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I dreamed I had a headache.
I was on a tour bus to Israel with my mother and some other people. We got to Jerusalem and entered a huge tent where people seemed to be both living and working in their own small areas. I had lost my mother, and figured she’d been sent to [...]

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw
[via mary beth]

I had an epiphany this morning about what I can do to earn a living at home while at the same time doing something good for the world. Rather than continue to whine about my chemically induced health problems here, I’m going to write a newspaper column about living ‘naturally’. I know it’s being done [...]

Wait. I changed my mind.
Oh, don’t worry, I won’t. It’s just another bad day.
I hate to keep whining about it and boring people, but I have nothing else to say. So I guess this blog will continue to be boring, whiny and depressing for the forseeable future.
Sorry.

I learned, from 25 years of writing down their words in notebooks, how real people really talk. I learned that syntax and rhythm were almost as individual as a fingerprint, and that one sentence, precisely transcribed, could effortlessly delineate a character in a way that five pages of exposition never could.
–Anna Quindlen

The nation that destroys its soil, destroys itself.
–Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1937

bread, coffee, chocolate, yoga:
“…Next, set it down and smell it. Really bury your nose in it and inhale deeply, breathing down on the chocolate each time to heat it slightly. Do this for a good minute or so. Experience all the aroma components. A chocolatey aroma is the best, but you really have to confirm [...]

Instead of the usual, dull interviews with celebrities, the work of interviewing ordinary people - those who live in your neighborhood, older members of your family - is terribly exciting and rewarding. With a tape recorder and microphone… interviewers are able to capture the unofficial, unrecorded history of our daily lives.
–Studs Terkel, Writer and Oral [...]

Roy Orbison & Friends - Black and White Night
“A Black and White Night” Roy Orbison and friends - including Jackson Brown, Elvis Costello, k. d. lang, Bonnie Raitt, Steven Soles, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Jennifer Warnes, J.D. Souther, and T-Bone Burnett - in concert.
Makes me wonder how many incredible talents are never seen [...]

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Ahh… furniture forts…
That’s what we need around here…

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