August 27, 2024
The current hullabaloo is over a new state law that says homeowners’ associations in Missouri can’t ban backyard chickens. The intent is to help people who are upset by the rising cost of eggs to produce their own.
So, to avoid paying $2 a dozen, people can shell out for the laying hens; the cost of a coop (unless their chickens are free range); and the chicken feed.
I’m no economist, but I suspect that it’d be cheaper just to buy the eggs.
August 21, 2024
The radio Bible Study was talking about Paul's trip to Rome. The ship he was sailing on was delayed by a storm, so they were at sea for 14 days on one leg of the trip, washed up on Malta, and stayed there for 3 months.
I couldn't help but think of the crew of the Boeing Starliner.
They were supposed to be in space for 8 days. NASA will decide soon if they will come home or have to stay on the space station for several months.
August 11, 2024
I’ve written 2 posts about slouching (as in, I do it): “Or I Could Try Exercising” June 25, 2012 and “No Fitness Accessories Needed” October 11, 2018.
I just this minute read about a book called Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America by Beth Linker (an endowed professor at Penn). I’m quoting from an article on the book, written by Katelyn Silva for Penn’s Omnia publication. She writes:
As physicians and scientists accepted Darwin’s theory—that upright posture came before intelligence and language ability and was the first trait to separate humans from beasts—they started to see a disconnect in the society around them. “If upright posture is necessary to human superiority and the progression of civilization, yet a bunch of people are slumped over, then we have a problem. It creates this kind of fear that permeates throughout the century,” Linker says.
The book is meant to “poke a hole” in that panic, in the idea that posture is important and that something specific constitutes “good” posture. It looks at the transition from posture as scientific concept to one of commercial opportunities that played out as the widespread marketing and sale of products like medical girdles, back braces, orthopedic shoes, and posture-focused fitness routines.
So read the posts, then consider slouching—just because it feels good.
