Enjoy The Holiday

 Wishing you an excellent and Happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy the day, you earned it. I'll be sharing Thanksgiving with friends and family. Thank you for viewing this blog, it's a fun endeavor.

 I'll be back on Monday which is, and can you believe it, December 1st. Above all, be well.  

Bale

 

Jung

"The deep critical thinker has become the misfit of the world, this is not a coincidence. To maintain order and control you must isolate the intellectual, the sage, the philosopher, the savant before their ideas awaken people."
Carl Jung

Homosexuality In Pre-Codes Hollywood - The 'Sissy'

BBC Global - The Japanese Secret To Being Calmer And Happier

Thanks

"Be present in all things and thankful for all things." Maya Angelou

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life." Melody Beattie

"I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual." Henry David Thoreau

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul." Henry Ward Beecher

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was 'thank you,' that would suffice." Meister Eckhart

'Frankenstein' - Guillermo del Toro - Official Trailer

Berry

"The approach of a man’s life out of the past is history, and the approach of time out of the future is mystery. Their meeting is the present, and it is consciousness, the only time life is alive. The endless wonder of this meeting is what causes the mind, in its inward liberty of a frozen morning, to turn back and question and remember. The world is full of places. Why is it that I am here?"

Wendell Berry, The Long-Legged House

Likeable

Fast Company: After 25 years of coaching leaders, I’ve found 1 small habit that makes people instantly like you - How do you compare with the most likable leaders?

Blink 182 - What's My Age Again?

Dr. Eric Berg DC - Drink 1 Cup Per Day To Shrink An Enlarged Prostate

Newly Discovered Bad Brains Recording To Be Released

The Neighbourhood – 'Lovebomb'

Homer

Painting by Winslow Homer 1836–1910 - 'Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts (High Tide)' 1870.

 

Be

"Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be." Leo Tolstoy

Live

"It Is In The Shelter Of Each Other That People Live" - Irish proverb

Return

19th News:  For the first time, Catholic sisters return land to a Tribal nation - "This return represents more than the restoration of land — it is the restoration of balance, dignity, and our sacred connection to the places our ancestors once walked." by Jessica Kutz

Crawl Daily To Stay Young - 10 Minute Routine

FAUN - 'Walpurgisnacht'

Nick Young - Come Together

Soft White Underbelly - Memoirs Of A Former Adult Talent Agent - Chris

Jimmy Cliff Dies

 NPR:  Reggae pioneer Jimmy Cliff dies at 81 by Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

The White Stripes - 'Seven Nation Army' Live

Earl 'Snake Hips' Tucker

Magritte

"René Magritte with his dog in front of his painting" - 1966

 

Camels

From AI Gemini:

Camels have incredible adaptations to thrive in places with extreme temperatures and scarcity of water.

Here are 5 things camels do to endure those extreme conditions, including the ability to manage salt water intake:

1. Fluctuating Body Temperature (Adaptive Heterothermy): Unlike most mammals that maintain a constant body temperature, a camel's internal temperature can fluctuate significantly. This allows them to store heat during the day and only start sweating at a much higher temperature, thereby saving crucial water.

2. Efficient Water Conservation (Low Sweating/Concentrated Waste):
- They rarely sweat, even when ambient temperatures are high. Any sweat that does occur evaporates at the skin level, not on the coat's surface, which helps cool them more efficiently.
- Their kidneys are highly specialized, allowing them to excrete extremely concentrated urine.
- Their feces are very dry, further minimizing water loss.
- They can reabsorb water vapor from their exhaled breath in their nostrils.

3. Ability to Drink Salty Water: Camels can drink highly saline water, even saltier than seawater. Their highly adapted kidneys and unique blood structure allow them to tolerate and process the excess salt, something most other mammals cannot do.

4. Insulating Coat and Fat Storage:
- Coat: Their thick coat, which might seem counterintuitive, actually acts as an insulator against the intense external heat radiated from the sun and hot ground, reducing moisture loss. In colder environments (like the Asian steppes), a very thick coat protects them from freezing temperatures, which is then shed in the summer.
- Fat in Humps: By storing almost all of their fat in their hump(s), the rest of their body is left with minimal insulation. This allows for easier heat release from the main body surface, improving thermoregulation in the heat. The fat also provides energy and metabolic water when food and water are scarce.

5. Elevated Body Position: Their long legs raise their body high above the scorching hot desert sand, which can be significantly hotter than the air temperature, providing a slight but important cooling advantage.

Seven Steps To Overcome Anxiety With Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Blink 182 - 'All The Small Things'

SNL - Commercial Parodies - Food

Scan

 Futurism: Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out How to Transcribe Your Thoughts From an MRI Scan - Say hello to "mind captioning." by Frank Landymore

CDK - 'Bittersuite' - Billie Eilish

December

Yahoo News: Polar vortex forecast warns of Arctic cold in December by Doyle Rice

'Kill Bill - The Whole Bloody Affair' - 2025 - Official Trailer - Uma Thurman

Cooper Flagg's Career-High 29-Pt Night Vs Pelicans - November 21, 2025

Weekend!

 Enjoy your weekend. I'll see you on Monday. 

Leonard Cohen - 'Anthem' - Live In London 2008

Light

"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen

"The wound is the place where the light enters you." Rumi

Super

 Nautilus:  How Super Recognizers See What the Rest of Us Miss - The secret to their extraordinary ability lies not in the brain but the eyes by Kristen French

Tradition

 HuffPo: This Seemingly Harmless Pre-Wedding Tradition Is Destroying Friendships Left And Right - “You feel that you can’t say no, especially if they stood up for you." by Nandini Maharaj

Shifts

Dharma Lab - "A growing body of scientific evidence shows that even very brief meditation sessions can be beneficial. Studies demonstrate that single practices lasting 10 minutes or less can produce measurable psychological and physiological effects, including shifts in the autonomic nervous system."

"Advanced meditators can intentionally shift into meditative awareness virtually instantaneously. In a study at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) in India, long-term practitioners were asked to alternate between meditation and rest every minute. Their brain activity shifted reliably with each change, showing how awareness itself can be deployed at will (Nair, Sasidharan, John, Mehrotra, & Kutty, 2017) and is associated with systematic changes in the brain."