As you might have already surmised (today being the middle of the week), the title walk is this week’s Hump Day Hiatus. I can assure you, it’s a walk like no other.
PSA of the Week
Don’t – please don’t – be any of these people. Look at the big beautiful world around you, not a phone screen.
Ah, perfection.
Merely attempting something noteworthy is, well, noteworthy. But when perfection is achieved, that is a shining moment indeed, for the attemptee, yes, but in a larger sense for all of humanity. We all owe a debt of gratitude to the people shown below for elevating the scope of human endeavor in such exceptional ways.
My Best Nurse Story
few years ago I temporarily got into a tradition of massive annual sinus infections. Thankfully that phase of my life has come and gone, but while it was going I was in abject misery for a few weeks every year. The first episode was especially bad because I thought it was just a cold and would eventually go away …
Museday
It’s Museday, also known as Music Therapy Thursday. This is the only place among the dozens of websites on the World Wide Web that celebrates music every single Thursday. So by all means, please come back next Thursday, and feel free to explore back issues for sterling musical interludes from previous Thursdays. (Just click below where it says “Categories” and …
Hump Day
Here is your mid-week break, aka The Hump Day Hiatus: a breathtaking (albeit 3-minute) tour of Vietnam. In a word, it’s beautiful. Reverie of Vietnam from Oliver Astrologo on Vimeo.
This week’s PSA
Yes it’s an announcement in service of the general public, or PSA for short. It’s a visual PSA, as they often are. And it makes a powerful point. Distracted driving – and texting is a top culprit – blinds us to what should be our primary focus: driving safely. Think for a moment about how quickly you hit the brakes …
I Love Monday
Lifelong city dwellers might think the Milky Way is a Hollywood creation, something you see only in movies. After all, city lights prevent all the but brightest stars from being seen. But thousands of stars are visible to folks out in the wide open spaces, and they are spectacular.
the LATEST issue!
No, really. Oh, it was printed on Tuesday morning as usual and delivered beginning Wednesday, just like always. It’s just this online edition that was delayed. But it’s worth waiting for: this issue has topics from hate crimes to moral and ethical pharmacy issues; a medical student’s experience with his first dead body; pets and exercise; marijuana brownies; a book …
Hi-Deaf Music
This one can be listened to on low, but fair warning: the whole time it will be screaming at you to crank up the volume. Aside from its visual intrigue, from an aural standpoint alone this deserves to be streaming from the earbuds of every power walker and Zumbette within the sound of this blog. Pump it up!