Happy New Year! And a massive thank you to the venues, their helpers and clients who supported my art practice last year, very much appreciated - pics of some works in progress coming up later this evening.
1. The Academy in Annapolis Royal. I drove by this new condo development in Annapolis Royal's old high school and thought it looked nice. Turns out it is a cool example of how a public/private partnership can work to both preserve a historic building while providing affordable housing and public amenities.
From their website's Pricing page: "The condos are priced much lower than one would expect for a brand new
condo. This is due to the fact that the town is providing the property
and there is a lot of structure in the school that will be saved. This
of course lowers the total cost of development and everyone who buys
will be able to take advantage of this opportunity."
Hats off to the developer, Tim Tanner of Jacob Tanner Developments Inc, who has done similar projects in other rural towns in Nova Scotia including another one under construction in New Glasgow.
2. The Real Story of Christmas - History Channel documentary on youtube explaining the origins of various Christmas traditions.
3. Mr. Poppers Penguins (movie, link to imdb page).
4. New research topic, as 'tis the season for cleansing: cell biology, specifically how does the body store fat and handle toxins. This also led to some googling about metabolism and inflammation:
The Incredible Shrinking Fat Cell, What Really Happens When Body Fat is Burned. Fitwatch article
How (and Where) Your Body Stores Toxins. Curebiome article.
A No Nonsense Look At Toxins and How Your Body Deals With Them. Dr. Ben Kim
This informative Dr. Mark Hyman article on how common food allergies, such as to dairy and gluten, cause inflammation and can affect ones ability to lose weight: Are Your Food Allergies Making You Fat?
5. How To Repair A Damaged Metabolism. Fitwatch Article.
6. Oregano Oil. Here's an informative link listing off its health benefits from the Mercola website: Help Ward Off Infections and Improve Your Immune System With Oregano Oil. Various articles and commentors online have vouched for this herb as a treatment for Candida overgrowth, eg. from Dr. Axe's site: 4 Oregano Oil Uses For Healing.
7. From a Forbes quote of the day - "If your heart sets out to do good things, things will only get better". Sheng-Lin Andrew Tseng (heir of Taiwan's energy drink company 'Grape King').
8. A Course in Miracles.
This is a book by Helen Schucman that I'd heard about and started
reading, albeit critically as it understandably has its critics; it's long, and pretty trippy but so far so good, I like how it is making a case against fear.
9. How To Raise Your Frequency and Increase Your Vibration. Infinite Waters youtube video.
10. Abraham Hicks youtube video - Do This to expect correctly, one million dollars
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