The following is a message from Danny Vitalis of Wild Fed, altered a little to be about the modern dilemma of movement rather than the modern dilemma of food: Moving through the Metaverse Being out of doors (remember, there wasn’t an ‘indoors’ for 99% of our time on Earth) is more than getting your exercise,… Read more
As of this writing, we seem to be looking through a glass darkly at the oncoming 2022. But I would like to offer a contrasting view. Let’s start with the ‘fascia picture of the year’: https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/12/16/capturing-the-extracellular-matrix-in-3d-color/?fbclid=IwAR1sTpkYgypD_EvXOVm8RWGlu1pUOMHW4XPW4XQu9ZGuA_v0CQJ-lUBSV4Y Of course the colours are enhanced, but this shows all four types of human tissue – nerve, muscle, endothelial,… Read more
It’s a family joke that before I was into muscles, I was into mussels. Back in ’73 – yes, children, that’s almost fifty years ago – I started a mussel-farming business under my father’s direction in the Damariscotta estuary I now call home again. Trying to copy Spanish methods of the Galician rias from afar,… Read more
It was a great pleasure to go out walking on the high plains of Colorado with my compadre Til Luchau. Til and I taught together at the Rolf Institute in the 90’s. I handed over to him my portion of the curriculum as I left to form my school which became Anatomy Trains. Till likewise… Read more
We note with sadness the passing of Lawrence Ferlinghetti. At the ripe old age of 101, he had outlived most all of the Beat poets – is Harold Dull still with us? – like Ginsburg and Corso and Kerouac, of which he was a younger but still card-carrying member. In my 20’s, adrift in San… Read more
Wherever in the world you are, and no matter when your local harvest festival, this is a year to remember gratitude. In America most of us are hunkering down with our housemates – the same housemates we’ve had since March – around a pared-down Thanksgiving feast. Outside the foreseen autumn flood of pandemic pours through… Read more
