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Define what you leave behind. WisdomBox.me

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Found. (at Sanctuary)

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Jobs at WWDC in 1997, full unscripted Q&A with the developers. Outstanding clarity of thought, the best Jobs video I’ve seen.

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What You Can Do To Improve Your Nutritional Intake

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Yep

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Well said.

[alifelivedwell]

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

Ray Bradbury (via thatkindofwoman, alifelivedwell, sociolab)

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And to get informed, LIKE Our Time!

[theatlantic]

My Father Once Tried to Take Me Away From My Mother Because She's Gay

[mywisdombox]

 On a hot summer morning in 1974, a few months after my parents’ separation, my father came to visit my mother and me. He offered to take me for a walk. I was 10 months old. "In retrospect, I should have thought it odd that he wanted me to give you a bath before the walk," my mother recalled. “I understood later that he wanted you clean for the journey." I can imagine the scene outside Mom’s rented, white clapboard house in Athens, Georgia: She handed me over to him. He looked down at me, recognizing himself in the shape of my chin and telling himself that what he was about to do was the right thing, the best thing for me. He lowered me into the stroller and headed for the sidewalk. Hours went by. We didn’t return. Apart from terror, my mother doesn’t remember specifics from that part of the day. I assume this is a sign of panic and trauma. Did she tearfully wander the neighborhood, calling out for us?

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Here’s a Q&A that ANYONE can answer RE: Money!

WATCH VIDEO HERE

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QUESTION: Do you feel like you have enough money - and how much is enough, or not enough?

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Contribute your Answer to the “RE: MONEY" collab HERE!

[fastcompany]

Trying to explain a panic attack to someone for whom anxiety is not an issue is like speaking in a foreign language. You really think your world is caving in. You’re going to have a heart attack. And no matter how many times it happens, it still feels like the world is falling out from your butt every. Single. Time. So what are you supposed to do when it drifts into your work life and career? I’m lucky in that when I started my own company I had to pitch myself and my services constantly. Doing the things that scare you more often makes them less scary.

CEO of FinePoint Digital PR Meredith Fineman suffers from panic attacks, but won’t let them destroy her life or work.  (via fastcompany)

[theatlantic]

Cannabis for Elders: A Precarious State

Margo Bauer was desperate. Dealing with chronic nausea and frequent bouts of vomiting — both attributed to her multiple sclerosis — the retired nurse was constantly exhausted and in pain. That was, until she attended an informational meeting where she was introduced to medical marijuana.

Under California’s Medical Marijuana Program, she received a medical marijuana card and now legally grows her own plant at a Southern California assisted living facility where she lives with her husband who suffers from Alzheimer’s. She smokes a rolled joint once every six months, which she says keeps her nausea at bay, and her pain lifted to the point that she joined an all-female synchronized swimming team called the Aquadettes.

Bauer, now 75, has also become an outspoken advocate for medical marijuana use among seniors and was instrumental in starting a collective at her assisted living facility.

"I carry a little container with a rolled cigarette," she said, “and if I have nausea I know that it is because I haven’t taken enough pot."

Read more. [Image: Reed Saxon/AP]

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Right on, Will!

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To Your Health: Let’s Tackle Well-Being With DIY Spirit - GOOD HQ wrote in Health and Living

Ancient Greek physician Herophilos was on to something with these words of wisdom: “When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied."

For July, we have decided to put the GOOD focus on the subject of health—from ways you can take better control over your personal health, to ways we can collectively help improve community and global health.

Continue reading on good.is

Illustration by Corinna Loo

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(via The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero - NYTimes.com)

What happened to him was so brutal, seeing success pass him by — twice. But he didn’t let that misfortune define him. Of all the guys I knew through my years in rock, a precious few made it huge. Good for them. Most never came close. Some never managed to get past the failure of the dream, but it seems pretty clear that [Jason] Everman did.

Big time rock star fame eluded him two times — once with Nirvana and once with Soundgarden, but it seems like maybe it was a bad fit in the first place. — heidi

Photo: Ian Allen for The New York Times

[theatlantic]

Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s

Two Afghan medicine students listening to their professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Kabul as they examine a plaster cast showing a part of a human body. 

[Image: AFP/Getty Images]