Peace!
Also, learn about the peace wave. http://www.thepeacewave.org/?aid=jt
It is an amazing concept. If you like it, order your cards, and no matter what, speak of, and live in, the deep throbbing throat of peace.
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"Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge."
Kahlil Gibran
"The Prophet"
"Yet the conception of the simple sea cow is being turned on its head by the recent work of Roger L. Reep, a neuroscientist at the University of Florida at Gainesville, and a small group of other manatee researchers, including Gordon B. Bauer, a professor of psychology at New College of Florida, and David Mann, a biologist at the University of South Florida.
Far from being slow learners, manatees, it turns out, are as adept at experimental tasks as dolphins, though they are slower-moving and, having no taste for fish, more difficult to motivate. They have a highly developed sense of touch, mediated by thick hairs called vibrissae that adorn not just the face, as in other mammals, but the entire body, according to the researchers’ recent work.
Dr. Reep — a co-author, with Robert K. Bonde, a biologist at the Sirenia Project of the United States Geological Survey, of a recently published book, “The Florida Manatee: Biology and Conservation” (University Press of Florida) — argues that the small size of the manatee brain may have little or nothing to do with its intelligence.
“Manatees don’t eat anybody, and they’re not eaten by anybody,” Dr. Reep said.
A large body makes it easier to keep warm in the water — essential for a mammal, like the manatee, with a glacially slow metabolism. It also provides room for the large digestive system necessary to process giant quantities of low-protein, low-calorie food.
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe."
Anatole France
1844-1924, Novelist
“Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.”
-- May Sarton
"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist."
-- Gail Sheehy
How blessed I am with therapy! : )