Don’t be potential!

This quotation is from the movie Fight Club. There is a lot of truth in it.

Man, I see in Fight Club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see it squandered. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables – slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy s*** we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won’t. We’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.

God himself can hand us the truth, however, it is up to us to do something with it.

Don’t be potential!

Butterfly Circus

The Butterfly Circus – HD from The Butterfly Circus on Vimeo.

I feel compelled

I have no choice but to post this on my website.  It is embarrassing.

Just wait for it!!

This is Rep. Hank Johnson (D) from the 4th Congressional District of Georgia.

Welcome Reese James

Reese James Widhelm was born on May 7 2009 at 6:08 AM.  Reese and Jen are both doing great.

Reese was 20″ and 8lbs.

Homemade Laundry Detergent

Many people have asked what recipe I use. Here it is and a link to where I got it.

Ingredients

• 2/3 bar Fels Naptha
• 1 cup washing soda
• 1 cup borax power
• 5 gallon bucket

Instructions

1. Grate the soap and put it in a sauce pan.
2. Add 6 cups water and heat it until the soap melts.
3. Add the washing soda and the borax and stir until it is dissolved. (Caution: when adding these ingredients add them slowly, as there is a tendency for the soap to overflow the pot. Big mess!!)
4. Remove from heat.
5. Pour 4 cups hot water into the bucket.
6. Now add your soap mixture and stir.
7. Now add 3 gallons of water and stir.
8. Let the soap sit for about 24 hours and it will gel.

You use ½ cup per load.
For more details you can read the original post over at The Family Homestead.

Light Summer Cole Slaw

Ingredients

3 cups shredded green and/or red cabbage
1 cup shredded carrots
2 celery stalks, thinly sliced
2 T chopped parsley
1/2 cup pecans, walnuts or other nut of your choice
1/4 cup sesame oil
2 T cider vinegar
1/2 t garlic powder
1/2 cup sun-dried tomatoes, soaked 15 minutes, chopped (optional, the ingredient, not the chopping)
1 t fennel or poppy seeds (optional)
Salt and black pepper to taste

Instructions

Toss all ingredients and allow to marinate for 1 hour, stirring often.

Notes

Substitution/modifications

1. Instead of the sesame oil use toasted sesame oil. It gives it much more of an Asian flare.

Raw Foods Can Heal

Even though I don’t do it, and I know I should, “Raw Foods” can heal.

So many people believe in the common medical model that says everything has a pill and if it doesn’t have a pill then you are doomed. It just isn’t true!!

I haven’t read too much about this organization or any of the science behind it…but, if you have tried everything else and spent thousands, if not 10s of thousands of dollars already, what do you have to loose just changing your diet.

Take a look to see how an incurable disease, diabetes, can be reversed, that’s right, reveresed, by changing diet.

http://www.rawfor30days.com/rawfor30daysgoogle.html

Lentil Salad

This is a very simple and delicious recipe from “Carol Alt: Eating in the Raw (p. 135)”. It works well as a side dish or it can be a meal in itself.

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‘Bout Time

Pink Lemonade

Fill a pint glass with ice. Add:

• 1.5 oz Vodka
• 3 oz Sour Mix
• Splash of cranberry juice
• Dash of lime juice

Shake well and enjoy!