Dark, white, or milk? Pure and simple, like when wrapped in foil in the form of a teardrop? Or enjoyed encasing an almond, cashew, cherry, cream, or a mixture of them? Chocolate. The most beguiling, most seductive of natural substances, a ubiquitous aphrodisiac. For millennia, cacao was food for and from the gods, a necessary sacred ambrosia in Olmec, Maya, and Aztec spiritual rituals. The etymology of the word seems to have come from Nahuatl, natives of southern Mexico and…
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Every human has likely felt lonely at some point in his life. Many feel it chronically. Merriam-Webster cuts to the essentialism of loneliness in its definition: “being without company; cut off…
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We must free ourselves from the prison of our everyday affairs and politics. – Epicurus Time is an illusion. It serves to sort and categorize past events and imagine future ones.…
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Wishing you a beautiful, joyful… Solstice Hanukkah Christmas Kwanzaa …
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The apple tree never asks the beech how it should grow; nor the lion, the horse, how he should take his prey. – William Blake How many times have you said…