Inge's Morning Run Haiku

I love Inge's Haiku.  When I read it, I'm right there with her........seeing the light, smelling the woods, hearing the sounds.............

Leaves begin to fall
The pathway becomes a quilt
So brightly colored
                           10/25/10

Dancing through the trees
November sun hanging low
A wooded light show
                               11/08/10

The Female Brain

Excerpt.........

Imagine for a moment that you are in a microcapsule speeding up the vaginal canal, hitting warp drive through the cervix ahead of the tsunami of sperm. Once inside the uterus, you'll see a giant, undulating egg waiting for that lucky tadpole with enough moxie to penetrate the surface. Let's say the sperm that led the charge carries an X and not a Y chromosome. Voilà, the fertilized egg is a girl.

In the span of just thirty-eight weeks, we would see this girl grow from a group of cells that could fit on the head of a pin to an infant who weighs an average of seven and a half pounds and possesses the machinery she needs to live outside her mother's body. But the majority of the brain development that determines her sex-specific circuits happens during the first eighteen weeks of pregnancy.

Until eight weeks old, every fetal brain looks female - female is na-ture's default gender setting. If you were to watch a female and a male brain developing via time-lapse photography, you would see their circuit diagrams being laid down according to the blueprint drafted by both genes and sex hormones. A huge testosterone surge beginning in the eighth week will turn this unisex brain male by killing off some cells in the communication centers and growing more cells in the sex and aggression centers. If the testosterone surge doesn't happen, the female brain continues to grow unperturbed. The fetal girl's brain cells sprout more connections in the communication centers and areas that process emotion. How does this fetal fork in the road affect us? For one thing, because of her larger communication center, this girl will grow up to be more talkative than her brother. Men use about seven thousand words per day. Women use about twenty thousand. For another, it defines our innate biological destiny, coloring the lens through which each of us views and engages the world..........

Sex, Lies, and Menopause

Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy.  "The Wiley Protocol".

Excerpt......This book will first scare you and then galvanize you into action.........of some sort depending on how you relate to the new and unusual (although this is not so new OR unusual any more).

Google bio-identical hormone replacement therapy.  It's an eye opener.


By T.S. Wiley, Julie Taquchi, Brent Formby

Katy Keene

I diverge briefly........................

Hallows, Samhain - October 31st

Artist unknown

Although many people today would call it Halloween (a contraction of Hallowed Eve), the Victorians may have called this holiday Snap Apple Night or Nut Crack Night because of the traditional divination games played with nuts or apple peelings to determine the initials of future bridegrooms..................For the user of magic, Samhain or Halloween is the in-between time, the time of the dead.  The new year and the old swing on the same hinge, and the veil between worlds grows thin..............at this time our spiritual energy should be refilled to ensure sustenance for the winter. 

Excerpts from "A Victorian Grimoire"

Bewildered Bliss

Photo by Patti Hinton?

What if you slept?  And what if, in your

sleep, you dreamed?  And what if, in your

dream, you went to heaven and plucked a

strange and beautiful flower?  And what if,

when you awoke, you had the flower in

your hand? Ah, what then?

Fingerprints of God

Is the spiritual experience real?  Or is it a delusion?  When we pray, what happens? Does consciousness depend entirely on your brain and the unique way it works?  ...............excerpt from "Fingerprints of God".

Very interesting book.