Continue for: the health benefits of a little cardio; examples of what we’ve been eating (plant-based feasting is the biggest/cheapest/easiest thing an individual can do to lessen their environmental impact, better physical health, and it’s compassionate to boot! <—Win, Win, WIN); pediatric nutrition resources again; some homeschooling gems (though Sunday’s dump for the weekly theme is going to be one heck of a treat, so stay tuned).

Continue for: a list of world-renowned doctors harking the evidence-based swell of reasons you should transition to plant-based feasting; links showing how/where-to-start; examples of what this family-of-3 is eating, how we’re keeping active, how we’re keeping our kindergarten kiddo’s mind keen through homeschooling; and Ghostbuster soundtrack repeats.

Continue for: examples of what we’re eating this week (<— going Plant-Based is the biggest thing an individual can do to lessen their environmental footprint <— also happens to be the best way to bolster your health, <—and your children’s); ways Q spread light in a week of funerals and birthdays; what made our hearts brighten in a whirl of withered will.

Continue for: Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice; what a Mama Bear who ate her weight in milk-chocolate many times over (looking at you Snickers/Reese’s/Milka/etc) learned that sealed the nutritional deal on never ever touching dairy again (<— and this was the same Hobbit who’d sing “Workin’ on my Night Cheese!” ala Liz Lemon) and why it is harmful for all the cubs out there still consuming it; Grandma Tara’s Halloween Arc; tasty examples of what this plant-based family was eating over the last few days; “Monster Mash” as the homeschooling theme of the week, and a kiddo who finds joy in math.

Continue for: Onondaga County’s best plant-based convenience food; how your food choices can make big environmental/health impacts yet still be easy/delicious; and Skä•noñh - Great Law of Peace Center date/field-trip with Grandma.

Continue for: Sunday Song Day "Harvest Moon” (38 sun revolutions, and 15 of them with this old soul); eating without waste though a weekend away; photos of Central New York splendor.

Continue for: South Onondaga’s General Store Before & After; Your Kind Kitchen’s First Tasting & Celebration; what homeschooling an art enthusiast looks like; plus a family thriving via the only planetary sustainable diet: plant-based. (<— Also happens to be the only diet known to prevent/reverse our world-leading cause of death: cardiovascular disease).

Continue for: a laconic post born out of equal parts stubbornness and withered spirits; but full of planet-kind/body-kind food from a family living by plant-based example; and our first few days of homeschooling.

Continue for: Sunday Song Day (Tool and Genesis revisited), why we’re switching to homeschooling for the remainder of the year, xeric species and planetary imperatives (again and again) for plant-based feasting, and a family learning and living by example. We continue to illuminate in the hope we spark enough of you awake to slow humanity’s sprint toward environmental tipping points. Pushback can be as simple as transitioning (<—not leaping, TRANSITIONING) to a healthier/more-compassionate diet, but the impact is monumental.

Continue for: a recap of the Dietitian James Marin’s brilliant podcast interview where we first heard about baking-soda-soaks (it also has a spot-on mechanistic description of how your body develops Type 2 diabetes and how to prevent it); examples of plant-based whole-food feasting; examples of how we keep active in this Lifestyle Medicine Household; some of Q’s best artwork yet.

Continue for: what folks like the CDC and National Cancer Institute say about Alcohol & Cancer (don’t just roll your eyes at my Country Karen voice: follow the studies yourselves, loved souls); how alcohol increases your risk of the #1 cause of death in the world (<—cardiovascular disease <—animal products perpetuate this disease too); yet another Avett Brothers song that wraps up our thoughts perfectly; and 4 days full of Lifestyle Medicine living-by-example (and learning as we go) with the benefits being profoundly more than personal health: plant-based feasting is an environmental forward-moving imperative…it also happens to be delicious, compassionate, and the least expensive way to fillingly-feast.

Live Kindly, Feast Kindly, Grow Forward.

Continue for: simple roasted peppers and onions recipe; logical fallacies in excusing away animal product consumption; an example of Ian’s paternal perfection (and a good balm if you want a better showing of humanity/leadership/masculinity than we saw from our president last night); and examples of Lifestyle Medicine thriving and plant-based whole-food family feasting.

Continue for: Nathanial Rateliff & the Night Sweat’s “Hey, Mama” (<—also, a phrase I hear on repeat about every 8 seconds :-D); 4 days of plant-based (mostly) whole-food feasting examples/ideas/recipes all swept around the whirl of remote kindergarten; a family learning to live by Lifestyle Medicine example; plus working hard every day to wake humanity up to the benefits of healing this planet and the dangers of continuing status quo.

Continue for: Peppers (that seasonal delight that is in most of our meals this week) and why they help you absorb iron and support your immune system; what some of Q’s remote-learning looks like; examples of plant-based feasting and a family living their healthiest/happiest (most environmentally kind) lives via Lifestyle Medicine principles.

Continue for (a condensed offering so I can wrap up this family weekend with my family): a photo project that has been going for 9 years now; photos from a park we’ve been visiting/loving every September for a decade; a song the whole family loves and a song that forever makes me think of Q; a family living their healthiest/most energetic/strongest/happiest lives after now a full-year of plant-based feasting (<—this includes the 2-weeks-out-from-a-delayed-hernia-surgery Mama Bear who hiked 4 miles up and down stairs, and didn’t feel a speck of soreness the following morning when she got up to do another gorge hike); and examples of what this Plant-Based family feasts on while camping and how we do so zero-waste.

Continue for our: Omega Green Smoothie (or Orange, Mango, Ginger Smoothie if you won’t have/don’t want to get the spirulina); benefits of the algae for getting omegas, protein, vitamins, minerals (and making stuff look like Ecto Cooler); remote kindergarten 2020; 3 days of plant-based whole-food low-waste big-love living.

Continue for: 4 days of a family living by Lifestyle Medicine example (eating well, loving big, stressing less, moving all the dang time <—even this post-surgery Mama) and thriving off Plant-Based Whole-Foods; our first 3 days of remote learning; Seth Avett singing songs that make me think of Ian with a lump-throated heart; and perpetual planetary imperatives.

Continue for: our Omega Sprinkle Recipe; plant-based omega sources; continued Plant-Strong surgery recovery (navigating the days after an umbilical hernia surgery without opiates and a wholllle lot of oatmeal); plus 3 days of this family showing you how to thrive on plant-based whole-foods: the most environmentally friendly, cheapest, healthiest diet there is.

Continue for: 4 days of Plant-Based-&-Whole-Food/Life Style Medicine living-by-example, including pre and post surgery food; why I avoided the take-home opiates and have continued without them even with an added wrench thrown into recovery; Ben Folds and gratitude.