5 lessons for living from a haiku master

Haiku as we know it today―a rich means of expression and one of Japan’s highest art forms―can be traced to Bashō, a 17th-century haiku master. An example of his work―one of his most well-known haikus―evokes the Zen koan about the sound of one hand clapping: Old pond― A frog jumps in The sound of water As Stephen Addiss tells it in his 2011 book The Art of Haiku: Its History Through Poems and Paintings by Japanese Masters, early haiku was more akin to limericks, jokes, and puns: “Bolstered by goodly quantities of sake, composing humorous linked verse became a very […]

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3 Ted Talks for health

Need a booster shot of motivation to get healthier? Try a TED Talk. The power of food If you are looking for something to motivate you about the power of food to heal, look no further than “Minding Your Mitochondria.” Terry Wahls, MD gave a TEDx talk in Iowa about how she cured her secondary progressive multiple sclerosis by changing her diet, in addition to other lifestyle modifications. The talk, which has nearly two million views on You Tube, describes how, with all conventional treatment options exhausted and confined to a wheelchair, Wahls, a clinical professor of medicine at the […]

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