hello again... word of the day is gastronome, i'll let you look this one up on your own.

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check this site out... very cool interior design ideas, lots of vibrant colors, reminds me of something you might see in India or South America, i love this room, so ballsy.

i've been doing a bit of thinking, per usual, and wondering why people heal the way they do.  it's a different kind of question but i've been involved in quite a few healing processes over the past months, each one being completely different, but all about the same level of hurt.  it's a question to be researched beyond my experiences but i can't help but wonder why? why does it take one person more time to heal from a bad break up than it does another to heal from a death in the family?  i never thought anything could hit harder than death.  does healing time equate to the emotional strength of a person? not sure.  it is explained a lot of times by balance and knowing yourself, and some sort of reality paradigm.  i don't think science can explain someone's healing process or time frame though.  i'm guessing it relies heavily on your support system and i've noticed those with stable support systems are in good shape in record time.  it seems that a lot of the time people that don't heal well are scared of moving on too, they are scared of what will come after this, and maybe in a weird way are more comfortable being unhappy than starting the healing process at all. it's a risk, i suppose, to move forward, it's just such an odd concept, to want to be unwell. thoughts. there's this cool site that tells you how to be a better person (sarcastically, but it's actually a helpful site, in the mood for browsing?)... click and feel better, maybe.  :)

so... hello, the word of the day is inexorable, used in a sentence: Becca was so inexorable in her political view, regarding how the government should approach renewable energy, no one could persuade her otherwise.

a friend gave me this really cool product site (www.thedieline.com). it's actually not a product site as much as it is a product label design site, definitely check it out , it never ceases to amaze what the mind can do creatively without repeating itself. I thought the above picture was a really cool example of their creative packaging designs, if you don't know what it is, go to the site and check it out, my lips are sealed.

doing a presentation on thursday that is all about wind turbines, boring maybe. the question is not about renewable energy or clean energy, it's whether wind is an economical source of energy at all, clean or not. how expensive is it to use wind power? well to put it into perspective, wind turbines produce about 0.5% of the world's energy, if that, and this half percent is a 6-7 billion dollar industry. why? well, simply because it is not economically feasible to save the world by harnessing this form of natural energy in many aspects, contrary to popular belief. it is far too expensive, now and maybe forever, to produce the parts for and assemble these turbines. kind of crushing for all those enviroMENTALists who disregard the human race's budget in taking on "green" projects with price tags furthering our national debt, doesn't really make sense does it? the worst part about these projects is their cosmetic appeal to the unlearned person, how many people really know about the underlying factors in these hastily drawn plans to save the environment? sure, it looks nice that we care enough to dump billions into a project that seems charmingly "environmental", but are people really going to benefit? after all the environment is comprised of people, a huge portion of it actually, just in case you're a hermit in the Sahara and this is breaking news to you.  this is just the beginning of how green advocates are ruining the way we should be "saving" the earth, naturally and simply, a little bit at a time, this is no crisis, I assure you.