Take a Mental Picnic!
Come on in and look around. Yatesville is a "State of Mind". It is everywhere and it is nowhere. While joking with a good friend years ago, he asked me what I was doing at the moment. Without thinking my response was "I am on a Mental Picnic". Life is so fragile, time is so short, most things in the world are not within our control. Indeed, we all should go on "Mental Picnics" often.
No point of view except sharing and learning.Intrigued by "consumer behavior regarding health"
Most of the deaths in contemporary society are caused by degenerative processes that can be slowed, halted, and even reversed. This knowledge can keep us healthy but each person must unlearn as well as learn new simple things to do now, before you die.
The best tombstone epitaph story I have heard is "See.... I told you I was sick". Well, I am interested in the flip side of this laugh line. I am intrigued by this "consumer behavior" we adopt from one dying generation to another. Can we do better by passing on simple but important information to allow better choices? I know I would have a better health status if I had an interest and access to basic solid health information that stuck. You will find some of this sharing on Yatesville.
Family History Connection
I have made an interesting transition from a person not knowing about my family background to someone who has the good fortune to now know and think about my ancestors and how they likely shaped and influenced my life today. I have since developed a passion to acquire this information, understand it and share it with others using new technology. Along the way I have developed an interest in helping others do the same thing and do so before it's too late.
When my "Uncle Wil" died in December 2006 at age 92 I realized I still possessed a running list of family questions that only he could answer authoritatively. I have visited the death location of my GG Grandfather John Yates serving with Sherman's forces in the Battle of Atlanta July 14, 1864 as well as my GGGG Grandfather Robert Carpenter who died a Patriot of the American Revolution at the Battle of Saratoga October 7, 1777. All this from someone who didn't think he had much family!
Ah...the Humor of it.
We need lots more humor.
"Humor is a quality of perception that enables us to experience joy even when faced with adversity. Stress is an adverse condition during which we may experience tension or fatigue, feel unpleasant emotions and sometimes develop a sense of hopelessness or futility. You cannot feel stress, angry, depressed, anxious, guilty, or resentful and experience humor at the same time. Like beauty being in the eyes of the beholder, humor is in the funny bone of the receiver of the experience." Dr. Chaya Ostrower .