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wyoming beef

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Wyoming Beef… Nikon D750   f/4.5  1/4,000   85m   100 ISO

An English sub excerpt from the South Korean drama,

“Partners for Justice,” episode 11.

Stellar Hwag: “The meat here just got out of rigor mortis, so it’s super delicious.”

Cha Soo-Ho: “What? Rigor mortis?”

Stellar Hwag:  “It’s too tough right after slaughter.  But if it’s too ripe, it starts to decompose.  Beef ribs are perfect when the temperature and time are right.”

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Stellar Hwag: “Ripening and decomposition straddle a very thin line. Got it?”

… in recent years, …studies are confirming the health benefits of meat-free eating. Nowadays, plant-based eating is recognized as not only nutritionally sufficient but also as a way to reduce the risk for many chronic illnesses. According to the American Dietetic Association, “appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases.  cited: Harvard Health

Earth Day

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Nikon D750   f/8  1/50s  300 mm  100 ISO  

We Are Not Separate From the Earth

We think that the earth is the earth and we are something outside of the earth. But in fact we are inside of the earth. Imagine that the earth is the tree and we are a leaf. The earth is not the environment, something outside of us that we need to care for. The earth is us. Just as your parents, ancestors, and teachers are inside you, the earth is in you. Taking care of the earth, we take care of ourselves.

When we see that the earth is not just the environment, that the earth is in us, at that moment you can have real communion with the earth. But if we see the earth as only the environment, with ourselves in the center, then we only want to do something for the earth in order for us to survive. But it is not enough to take care of the earth. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

We have to practice looking at our planet not just as matter, but as a living and sentient being. The universe, the sun, and the stars have contributed many elements to the earth, and when we look into the earth we see that it’s a very beautiful flower containing the presence of the whole universe. When we look into our own bodily formation, we are made of the same elements as the planet. It has made us. The earth and the universe are inside of us.

~Thich Nhat Hanh (https://earthholder.org/walking-with-earth/)

black & white sunday: playtime

the toy flute seller

clatters along…

plum blossoms

~Issa (www.haikuguy.om)

horsetooth

Six and one-half miles of Horsetooth Reservoir beckon visitors to come out and play! Surrounded by 1,900 acres of public lands, this reservoir has it all: fishing, boating, camping, picnicking, swimming, scuba diving, rock climbing, and water skiing.