NEW JUNE 22 - JUNE 29, 2002

Grassophobia
by David Leonhardt a.k.a. The Happy Guy

Each day my daughter, pushing one year old now, amazes me with the lessons she teaches me. Yes, here I go again learning lessons from someone too young to speak. (Hmm … maybe that's a lesson, too.)

In my corner of Starship Earth, winter rolled in a wee bit late this year. The thermometer went easy on us all winter, leaving our sidewalks clear of the usual mountains of snow.  So I suppose it was cosmic justice that just when we wanted to enjoy spring, winter struck us from behind.  Which explains why we had to wait until May to introduce our Little Lady to the sea of grass surrounding our new home in the country.

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What's Hard To Find, But Always With You?
by Richard Blumenthal

To create a wonderful life, you first need to make a choice: will you use your thinking to help yourself to the happy, fulfilling life you wish for, or will you allow the often haphazard, random ideas we gather over time to non-consciously run your life for you? What you think leads directly to feelings and actions. Think in one direction, you will feel and act accordingly. Think differently, your feelings and actions will be different. Those thoughts are powerful, aren't they? The only trouble is, ideas can become so ingrained that we don't even need to be aware for them to exert instant control over us.

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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell

In the mid-1990s, the city of Baltimore was attacked by an epidemic of syphilis. In the space of a year, from 1995 to 1996, the number of children born with the disease increased by 500 percent. If you look at Baltimore's syphilis rates on a graph, the line runs straight for years and then, when it hits 1995, rises almost at a right angle.

What caused Baltimore's syphilis problem to tip? According to the Centers for Disease Control, the problem was crack cocaine. Crack is known to cause a dramatic increase in the kind of risky sexual behavior that leads to the spread of things like HIV and syphilis. It brings far more people into poor areas to buy drugs, which then increases the likelihood that they will take an infection home with them to their own neighborhood. It changes the patterns of social connections between neighborhoods. Crack, the CDC said, was the little push that the syphilis problem needed to turn into a raging epidemic.

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NEW JUNE 15 - JUNE 22

The Face of God
by Margaret George
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Eat Your Way To Better Health
by Monique N. Gilbert, B.Sc.
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The pH Miracle: Balance Your Diet, Reclaim Your Health
by Robert O. Young, Shelley Redford Young
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NEW JUNE 8 - JUNE 15

Miscarriage And Self Blame
by Ellen DuBois
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St. Francis Of Assisi And Me
by Lisa Hepner
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