Archive for December, 2010

Tuesdy, December 21, 2010. Today I am so grateful for people like Wendy Shalit, who buck the trends created by “fashion” designers who seem to constantly exploit women.

Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It’s Not Bad to Be Good – Hardcover – Bargain Price (June 26, 2007) by Wendy Shalit

Wendy Shalit’s Girls Gone Mild (2007) is a delight for me because I have been asking for years (in family counseling and public and private contexts of all kinds):

“Why do girls (and women) follow blindly so-called fashion leaders who don’t have the girls (or women’s) best interests at heart?”

More than fifty years ago now, I read in Reader’s Digest this quixotic statement:

“Girls consider boys rude and uncouth when they stare at what they are trying so hard to display.”

I always thought that if girls and women want the respect they so richly deserve, they should happily flout those that demand that they expose themselves with revealing clothing. If you want people to see you as an intelligent person with a great personality, it is not wise to display powerful distractors to the contrary. We are more than sexual beings. We want to cultivate the display of our whole selves, not just a distorted one-sided view.

Of course, we men don’t feel free to say to an intelligent woman in the workplace, or at school, “Your breasts are showing.” What we can say (and I do this where it is appropriate) to a woman who is not flaunting her sexuality: “Thank you for dressing modestly.” This conveys a supportive context for the person without openly criticizing others who are unwittingly presenting themselves in an unhelpful way.

Get Wendy Shalit’s book from your library, or go buy a copy from Amazon.com.

Thank you Wendy Shalit!

Doc Meek, Tuesday, December 21, 2010, at my daughter Tanya’s computer, in Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA, and later today to be en route from Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA, to South Jordan, Utah, USA.

J. Collins Meek, Ph.D. (Doc Meek)
“What if you are smarter than you think?”
Learning Specialist https://docmeek.com

For brain health, ensure heart health (short video):
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Monday, December 20, 2010. Today I am grateful (again) for books and for gentle energetic therapist [non-touching massage therapist] Michael Bradford. If you missed my previous post on Michael Bradford, here it is: “All learning is a process.” – Michael Bradford

The Healing Energy of Your Hands – Paperback (Sept. 1, 1995) by Michael Bradford

Friday, December 17, 210. Today, once again, I am grateful for everything. I have no complaints whatsoever! I am grateful I can read. I am grateful I can read and gain new and useful knowledge. This brings me great happiness. 😮 Joy even! 😮

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Jeannette Meek reminds us all to protect our cardiovascular system, now, so we can have hearty brain health! 😮

For brain health, ensure heart health (short video):
http://www.amiraclemolecule.com/themeekteam
More on heart health http://www.themeekteam.info
Ph (801) 971-1812 (Jeannette); Fax [801] 282-6026

Thank you Jeannette Meek, for bringing us heart health so we can have brain health!

Doc Meek, Friday, December 17, 2010, at Strathcona Public Library, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA

J. Collins Meek, Ph.D. (Doc Meek)
“What if you are smarter than you think?”
Learning Specialist https://docmeek.com

For brain health, ensure heart health (short video):
http://www.amiraclemolecule.com/themeekteam
More on heart health http://www.themeekteam.info
Ph (801) 971-1812 (Jeannette); Fax [801] 282-6026

THE LEARNING CLINIC WORLDWIDE, INC.
CANADA: P.O. Box 3105, Sherwood Park, AB T8H 2T1
TONGA: Mele Taumoepeau, P.O. Box 60, Nuku’alofa
USA: 3688 W 9800 S, #138, South Jordan, UT 84095

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Thursday, December 16, 2010. Today I am grateful for everybody, even those who caused me much grief and agony. Here is a book I just read about second chances (and third and fourth and fifth chances) after you have seemingly failed miserably.

The Season of Second Chances: A Novel – Hardcover –

Doc Meek, Thursday, December 16, 2010, at the Strathcona Public Library, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA

J. Collins Meek, Ph.D. (Doc Meek)
“What if you are smarter than you think?”
Learning Specialist https://docmeek.com

For brain health, ensure heart health (short video):
http://www.amiraclemolecule.com/themeekteam
More on heart health http://www.themeekteam.info
Ph (801) 971-1812 (Jeannette); Fax [801] 282-6026

THE LEARNING CLINIC WORLDWIDE, INC.
CANADA: P.O. Box 3105, Sherwood Park, AB T8H 2T1
TONGA: Mele Taumoepeau, P.O. Box 60, Nuku’alofa
USA: 3688 W 9800 S, #138, South Jordan, UT 84095

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Wednesday, December 15, 2010. Today I am grateful for the courage of scientists and others who are willing to raise the flag of warning about hazards to learning and health that are generally ignored–or even resisted–in our Western  industrialized culture.

Doubt is Their Product: How Industry’s Assault on Science Threatens Your Health – Hardcover (Apr. 23, 2008) by David Michaels

Tuesday, December 14, 2010. Today I am grateful for people whose passion for their profession brings us greater knowledge than we would otherwise enjoy. An example is Dr. Robert D. Ballard, one of the world’s leading marine biologists. It was his persistence that located the wrecks of both the Titanic (1985) and the Bismarck (1989).

The Discovery of the Bismarck: Germany’s Greatest Battleship Surrenders Her Secrets – Hardcover (Oct. 1, 1990) by Robert D. Ballard, Rick Archbold, Ken Marschall, and Ludovic Kennedy

Doc Meek, Tuesday, December 14, 2010, on my daughter Tanya’s laptop, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA

J. Collins Meek, Ph.D. (Doc Meek)
“What if you are smarter than you think?”
Learning Specialist https://docmeek.com

For brain health, ensure heart health (short video):
http://www.amiraclemolecule.com/themeekteam
More on heart health http://www.themeekteam.info
Ph (801) 971-1812 (Jeannette); Fax [801] 282-6026

THE LEARNING CLINIC WORLDWIDE, INC.
CANADA: P.O. Box 3105, Sherwood Park, AB T8H 2T1
TONGA: Mele Taumoepeau, P.O. Box 60, Nuku’alofa
USA: 3688 W 9800 S, #138, South Jordan, UT 84095

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Monday, December 13, 2010. Today I am grateful for my brain. With the proper nutritional supplements and HBOT (hyperbaric oxygen therapy), my brain is restoring and retaining its memory and other cognitive functions which it was losing. Cognitive decline is scary and it was wonderful to be able to reverse this!

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Image from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NIA_human_brain_drawing.jpg

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Doc Meek, Monday, December 13, 2010, on my daughter Tanya’s laptop, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA

J. Collins Meek, Ph.D. (Doc Meek)
“What if you are smarter than you think?”
Learning Specialist https://docmeek.com

For brain health, ensure heart health (short video):
http://www.amiraclemolecule.com/themeekteam
More on heart health http://www.themeekteam.info
Ph (801) 971-1812 (Jeannette); Fax [801] 282-6026

THE LEARNING CLINIC WORLDWIDE, INC.
CANADA: P.O. Box 3105, Sherwood Park, AB T8H 2T1
TONGA: Mele Taumoepeau, P.O. Box 60, Nuku’alofa
USA: 3688 W 9800 S, #138, South Jordan, UT 84095

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Friday, December 10, 2010. Today I am grateful for those authors who let their non-mainstream selves show through their work. This increases our sensitivities to the lives and feelings of our brothers and sisters all over this planet.

Kiran Desai, 2007
Born	September 3, 1971 (age 39) New Delhi, India
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	Indian; permanent resident USA
Period	1998 to present
Notable work(s)	The Inheritance of Loss; Hullabalu in the Guava Orchard

Image and text above from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiran_Desai

Image from: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=%22The+inheritance+of+loss%22

The language Kiran uses in her book reveals, in a way nothing else can, the bright and dismal aspects of northern India and perhaps, by analogy, other places on earth that do not have a surfeit of material things.

Thank you, Kiran Desai, for allowing us into your alternate worlds!

Doc Meek, Friday, December 10,2010, Strathcona Public Library, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA

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J. Collins Meek, Ph.D. (Doc Meek)
“What if you are smarter than you think?”
Learning Specialist https://docmeek.com

For brain health, ensure heart health (short video):
http://www.amiraclemolecule.com/themeekteam
More on heart health http://www.themeekteam.info
Ph (801) 971-1812 (Jeannette); Fax [801] 282-6026

THE LEARNING CLINIC WORLDWIDE, INC.
CANADA: P.O. Box 3105, Sherwood Park, AB T8H 2T1
TONGA: Mele Taumoepeau, P.O. Box 60, Nuku’alofa
USA: 3688 W 9800 S, #138, South Jordan, UT 84095

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Thursday, December 9, 2010. Today I am grateful for life and for death. Years ago, Dr. Bernie Seigel (working with cancer patients) said that there are worse things than death (such as loss of dignity).

Image from: http://www.amazon.com

I was really upset at the time (many years ago now) because I thought then that the worst thing was death.

Since then I have discovered that Dr. Seigel was right (of course).

Thank you, Bernie Seigel, for leading the way with respect to the need for dignity for medical patients!

Doc Meek, Thursday, December 9, 2010, at Strathcona County Public Library, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA

Wednesday, December 8, 2010. Today I am grateful for a warm library on a cold day. Just think, within 100 feet of my computer station here, I can travel all over the world, and into the outer reaches of space, and even forwards and backwards in time. Whoever thought I would be so lucky as to be a time traveller! 😮

The Time Machine
First edition cover
Author	H. G. Wells
Cover artist	Ben Hardy
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre(s)	Science fiction novel
Publisher	William Heinemann
Publication date	1895

Image and text above from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine

Thank you, H.G. Wells and others who have inspired us to look beyond ourselves!

Doc Meek, Wednesday, December 8, 2010, at Strathcona Public Library, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA

P.S. I don’t even need to get up and pick up a book. I can travel sitting right here at the computer. How lucky can you get!? 😮

J. Collins Meek, Ph.D. (Doc Meek)
“What if you are smarter than you think?”
Learning Specialist https://docmeek.com

For brain health, ensure heart health (short video):
http://www.amiraclemolecule.com/themeekteam
More on heart health http://www.themeekteam.info
Ph (801) 971-1812 (Jeannette); Fax [801] 282-6026

THE LEARNING CLINIC WORLDWIDE, INC.
CANADA: P.O. Box 3105, Sherwood Park, AB T8H 2T1
TONGA: Mele Taumoepeau, P.O. Box 60, Nuku’alofa
USA: 3688 W 9800 S, #138, South Jordan, UT 84095

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