Attract Money Into Your Life With Feng Shui

This week, as part of my “Create Wellness Workshop" series, I hosted Anette Halfon's lecture, "Attract Money Into Your Life With Feng Shui.”

Anette’s lecture was informative, as well as fun. She has a charming personality and presents the principles of Feng Shui in a way that makes it simple to incorporate elements into your daily life.

I found it full of helpful tips about how to enhance luck, prosperity and career by adding different elements to the rooms.

I can’t wait for her to come back again.

Review: Young@ Heart

I recommend the uplifting documentary movie “YOUNG AT HEART”.

I found the documentary touching and honest. It's funny, amusing, sad, and inspirational at the same time. It deals with the wonder of life found so close to the presence of death.

Filmmaker Stephen Walker handles the sometimes difficult-to-film private aspects living and dying with respect. This film isn’t about old people singing; it’s about human beings who sing and happen to be old.

The Young@Heart Chorus website states:

“It is possible to grow old gracefully.
It is possible to grow old without growing boring.”

The chorus members truly are “young at heart” and have the ambition required to inspire and help others. The chorus proves there should not be a limit in whatever a person decides to do with his or her life, no matter what your age. On the group’s website, Chorus Director Bob Cilman says,

“The current performers in Young@Heart range in age from 72 to 88. There are some with prior professional theater or music experience, others who have performed extensively on the amateur level, and some who never stepped onto a stage before turning eighty.”

The documentary (like the chorus) is a tribute to life. In the film, we meet an unusual choir: senior citizens in Massachusetts who tackle contemporary music with gusto and sophistication instead of interpreting the usual standards.

“None of the current performers of Y@H were part of the original group that formed in 1982, but they have kept alive the spirit of the early pioneers and continue to push the group into glorious new directions.”

The YouTube clips don’t do this group justice; you need to see this film. I myself am adding it to my home collection to watch it again and again.
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Choir Website: www.youngatheartchorus.com
Documentary Website: www.foxsearchlight.com/youngatheart/

Food for Thought - Film Review of KING CORN

I just saw the documentary film, “KING CORN” by Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis. Two college graduates leave the city for rural Iowa to grow an acre of the nation’s most powerful crop.

As Ian and Curt discover, almost everything Americans eat contains corn. High-fructose corn syrup, corn-fed meat, and corn-based processed foods are staples of the modern diet: from beef cattle fodder to soda sweetener.

The American dream of cheap food is realized … but at an insidious cost.

“For the first time in American history, our generation was at risk of having a shorter lifespan than our parents.
...................And it was because of what we ate.” (1)

America’s record harvests are supported by a government subsidy system that promotes corn production beyond all market demand.

“The farm bill emerged originally to support farmers during the Great Depression. But over time, it has turned into a system of subsidies heavily favoring five crops: corn, cotton, rice, soybeans and wheat. Between 1995 and 2003, farmers who grew these commodity crops received an average of $14.5 billion in subsidies each year.” (2)

The farm bill offers little support to farmers who produce our nation's fruits, nuts and vegetables, despite the USDA's nutritional guidelines calling for a diet rich in all three.(2) If our families are getting sick and we support farms with our taxes, is our food really “cheap”?

I think the film contains valid information everyone should know. It was a slow journey. It is only when all the pieces have been put together did I understand the full impact of the Farm Bill on our food chain, on what food we get and how we get it.

Watching the film was like going on a meditative journey with them; unfolding information without judgment. They allow us, the viewers, to draw our own conclusions.

I highly recommend viewing it. For more information about the film, go to www.kingcorn.net.
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1. Curt Ellis, KING CORN, 2007
   
2. Alice Waters, “Farm Bill Should Focus on Healthful Foods,”
   Sacramento Bee, June 10, 2007