How much does a pound of snow weigh...

and other questions you'll ask yourself when snowed in virtually by yourself during the month of February.

Will I ever go to New Zealand?

Will I ever get tired of A.J. Heschel?

Is it silly of me to look at all the snow outside and still want these?

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. - A.J. Heschel

Simple food.

Go to the market.

Buy whatever you see and combine it to make monstrously good food.

I bought 2 lbs. of pasture-raised turkey, 1 lb. of pasture-raised pork, 3 very curious looking sweet potatoes, a big chunk of grass-fed butter, and 5 slabs of really intriguing flatbreads (made out of brown rice and millet flour).

Why I feel ok eating a lot of carbs (~150g a day) from some otherwise questionable sources but not eating a lot of fruit:

1. A very active lifestyle.

2. Fructose is apparently not so good for you in any form.

3. Fruit is not easy to come by in nature except for one time of the year... and even then, wild fruit is waaaaaaaaaaay less sweet.

4. Most of the easier to buy fruits are higher in fructose, including what most "primal" or "paleo" baked goods and snacks are made of, agave nectar, honey, and/or dates. Even molasses has a pretty high sucrose level.

5. Fruit is an exception. And I don't always miss it... though sometimes I do. Sometimes I'd just rather eat bacon.

6. Leptins in grains, are also in nuts... sometimes in higher levels. Have to find this link.

7. I eat fruit. Just not NEARLY as much as I used to eat (piece with every meal at least).

8. Fruit just makes me crave more fruit!

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. - Marcus Aurelius

Simplicity is...

knowing that there are always things to be grateful for, things to open your heart up to.

Simplicity is...

knowing that your mood will change the way you do this and how often you think of it.

Simplicity is...

waiting for inspiration, accepting it as it comes, and searching it out when you find yourself missing it.

Yet another reason why treadmills are stupid...

1. Tazo Calm Tea - my favorite thing ever. The tagline for this should be, "making tax season for small business owners and independent contractors feel ever so much more manageable and less menacing." Sigh...

2. Olympic Lifting - for all the ways that it makes the rest of life a little less scary...

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.

- Soren Kierkegaard

3. Heather's Bakery - Sweet Freedom Bakery- open today for the first time!

This is Heather. :)

Simple is...

1. Appreciating these socks (from Ireland)



2. 12 and 2 pullups of chest to bar Cindy. (Because there's a real simplicity to Cindy that I have always loved.)



3. Paying $10 to fix my now only form of transportation ($5 for tire, $5 for labor). This store is incredible. More museum than store.