Wednesday, June 20, 2018

The Linus Pauling Institute's Micronutrient Information Center on Oregon State's Website

is something I find very useful. Maybe you will too.

I was initially considering supplemental reservatrol.

I was thinking maybe a trial period is in order. But maybe not. It's funny how the Wikipedia article on reservatrol is largely a concatenation of negative assessments of this phenol. It's as though Meghan Trainor wrote the Wiki entry on reservatrol and should sing it:

"My benefit in preventing heart disease is....NO.

My anti-cancer benefit is....NO.

My metabolic benefits are...NO.

My lifespan enhancement is...NO."

Every time I add a supplement to my arsenal, I have to cross-reference all the known interactions and such and it gets annoying as the list of supplements grows. And then there is simply the unknown (always) and the complex matrix of the individual's makeup, immunology, CBC, susceptibilities of organs, allergies, etc. Are we improving our health with this latest gambit or possibly wrecking a lovely status quo?

But embark with guinea pig blitheness. Do embark. The best and most justifiable animal testing is on your one and only own and (somewhat) owned animal: you.







My Cats are My Alters

anyway, so it should come as no surprise that one of my Instagram accounts is me "as" my cat, Bianca Leeroy.

I have tried to stay true to my cat's vision and see things in a feline light.

If you want to check in, we are @biancaleeroy.

Thanks for visiting.

The IAFOR Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award 2018

On rare occasions, I submit things to contests and then forget to follow up on them.

So I just accidentally learned (while trying to find something I once posted somewhere) that I was a runner-up in this international haiku contest.

I really like the selections the judge made. Some other haikuists I admire quite a bit were runners-up and commended.

Thank you, Dr Drago Štambuk.

Here are some really great haiku collections and anthologies I have been reading over and over (because the poems change constantly).

Feathers from the Hill, W.S. Merwin (1978)

The Haiku Anthology, Cor van den Heuvel (1999)

Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter, Lucien Stryk, Takashi Ikemoto (1995)

Nick Virgilio: A Life in Haiku, Raffael da Gruttola (2012)

Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years, Kacian, Rowland, Burns (2013)

Haiku Moment: An Anthology of Contemporary North American Haiku, Bruce Ross (1993)

breakthmarks, Gary Hotham (1999)

Haiku 21: Contemporary English Language Haiku,  Lee Gurga & Scott Metz (2011)

Book of Haikus, Jack Kerouac (ed. Regina Weinreich) (2003).

And anything I can find by Chris Gordon.

There are others too, but these were the first books at hand. I would heartily recommend all of those titles and associated authors.

I should add that the Haiku Foundation has made available an overwhelming number of haiku collections (going back decades) on their fine website. I often stop in there too.

These prisms never get old for me.