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PAGE 4 - THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2013 Opinions expressed by writers on this page are their own and not necessarily those of The Georgia Post CODE OF ETHICS: Seek Truth & Report It - Minimize Harm - Act Independently - Be Accountable. Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe. - Thomas Jefferson Treasures from My Library Reading is, and has been a life long joy. Gleaning knowledge in the throes of reading fiction, non-fiction and heck, though I’m loathe to admit it, even advertisements, is fun. Well-written pieces of work stick with you—popping up in bits and pieces at odd moments. You know how sometimes you know something and you’re not sure where that knowledge came from? I’m willing to bet it was from something you read. I taught literacy at my local library in Miami for a time because I just couldn’t imagine going through life not having access to the knowledge contained in books; not just the knowledge alone, but the joy a good read can bring. The impetus of stirred brain cells connecting what we know to what is possible. I love teaching on its own merits, but when my literacy students began to gain confidence in their ability to read, well, there’s just nothing like it. During one of my ongoing bouts of organizing and reorganizing my home library I ran across one of my favorite books. I’ve always loved Greek and Roman mythology. My sister and I used to spend hours reading the stories together and had a relatively masterful knowledge of both pantheons. I ran into a copy of Thomas Bulfinch’s The Age of Fable (published 1855)atagarage sale one day. The rest of the world faded away as I submerged myself in the astounding tales. While doing a bit of research on this fellow—Thomas Bulfinch—I learned that The Age of Fable is a companion book of two other Bulfinch works—The Age of Chivaln> (1858) and Legends of Charlemagne. (1863). I must have made the sound James learned to interpret as “Book!” because he asked me what I’d found. Sheepishly, I told him there were “only” two books. With the disbelieving look he threw my way I tried to dicker with him by telling him I could buy one book rather than two if I purchased the three-book compilation. The jury’s still out on that. Though they comprise an adroit and masterful presentation of the classics, Mr. Bulfinch’s work is completely accessible to all lovers of tales of adventure. But wait! There’s more! The skill of the illustrations is mesmerizing; and there are lots and lots of them to admire. There are linotypes, photographs of classic works of sculpture and famous works of art. "Our work is not for the Of This & That Trenesia Y. Stubbs Columnist email:trenesia@pstel. net learned, nor for the theologian, nor for the philosopher, but for the reader of English literature, of either sex, who wishes to comprehend the allusions so frequently made by public speakers, lecturers, essayists, and poets, and those which occur in polite conversation. ” That was the purpose of the work in the author’s view and I’d say The Age of Fable nails it. Robert H. Heinlein’s - Take Back Your Government is a non-fiction work by one of my favorite authors. I’ve always enjoyed the science fiction stories authored by Mr. Heinlein from an early age. This non-fiction work, Take Back Your Government is a kind of love letter to the citizens of the United States of America. It is a call to responsible citizenship. It is a mirror held up to our faces to see if our action matches our beliefs. In recent years I’ve heard the phrase, “take back your government,” used in one way or another as a political battle cry. Unfortunately, it seems to me that its use has often had undertones of race and class. Take back your government from whom? In Heinlein’s view the citizens must take and keep their government from those who would use it for their own gain—power or money. Our democratic republic relies on the full participation of its people. Without that, democracy is a joke and the republic falters. What made this piece fun as well as thought provoking is Mr. Heinlein’s use of archetypes to describe the roles of participatory citizens. For example: Jim Ballotbox as a party organizer; Joe Q. Ivorytower from Farflung, NY, citizen at large; Mr. Swivelchair, a mover and shaker. Read it. I found it very interesting to see to which of these “types” I was most closely related. There really is nothing new under the sun. Take Back Your Government was published in 1943. Its purpose and principles remain relevant today. I like that Heinlein wrote this book as a “how-to” on the “practical art of politics. There were a couple of other books I wanted to share with you, but I’ve run out of both space and time for this column. We’ll get to them, though. I promise. Life Changes Regularly Our lives, I believe, go in cycles, as does our health. If you take care of yourself the good health cycle will last a lot longer. For many, many years, more than I can remember, I never took a vacation. Actually thought it a waste of time because there were so many things which I needed to get done and if I was out for a few days it would make it difficult for everyone else at work who would have to fill in during my absence. Eventually, that way of thinking did catch up with me. Occasionally you have to renew and recharge yourself, otherwise you are headed for a bum out. We all need a break from our jobs and just a change of pace from our everyday lives. Once I began taking vaca tions I discovered their value and how beneficial they are to your mental health and overall well being. When David and I married I found a kindred spirit who loved adventure and doing different things. He brought new things to do into my life and I brought new ones into his. We began doing a little traveling and taking some time off here and there. The last real vacation I have had was in 2011 when we visited our son in Hawaii. Had to stay an extra day due to delays at airports and having to be on standby. Still it was a great adventure, a trip of a lifetime and if we never get to go to again, I have at least been once. Now days I can tell when it is time to take a few days off and I am way overdue as my brain needs a rest. Just too much going on right now though but am hoping that July will be full of possibili ties. Just a two day trip to the beach would be wonderful, or at this point anywhere! My health cycle has been pretty good until lately and I have been feeling really tired, which is another reason I know I need a break. I discovered once you take a break, you are more able to cope again and get on with those everyday tasks easier. Seems there is always some thing going on, either at work or with the family. That’s just life. But when you want to scream when a setback occurs, then it is time to step back and relax a little. Prayer, for me, also works wonders. So many people have been hurting or have family members in the hospi tal or sick lately, that I am in a constant state of prayer but the bible tells us to pray without ceasing. It really does change things though and we have been blessed with answers to prayer frequently. We really do have so much for which to be thankful though. In Peach County, the new hospital, which will not open for patients until July 16th, is beautiful, state of the art and nearby. It is a won derful thing but one of those which you hope you never need. But if you do, it will be there and since I worked at the hospital for a while, I know the struggles they have endured to get a new facility and feel, as Nancy Peed, CEO, that it is indeed a miracle. Yours truly had two photos chosen to hang on the walls of the hospital. All of the photos are from area photographers, with 235 photos chosen from 170 photographers. I guess it is kind of neat a plaque will be under my photos with my name engraved. One is in a room, and the other in the ER waiting room. It was a good way to adorn the walls of the hospital and a way to get lots of people involved. Even a couple of hospital employees submitted photos and had one chosen too. Once upon a time, I oper ated a photography studio, Lensclusive. Things happened to cameras and equipment Water Is A Free Fat Burner! Water’s effect on the me tabolism has been something that has intrigued me for years! The reason we do not hear more about it is simple, “supplement companies and pharmaceutical companies do not sell water, they sell fat burners and metabolism boosters in pill form” and try to duplicate natural processes in a sellable form. Foods we consume are mea sured by calories and when we eat extra calories beyond the fuel we need for energy, our body will simply store these for later use in our fat cells. Calories are simply units of heat/energy and are relied on for energy in our body whether its for our daily ac tivities, digestion or tempera ture control. There are certain things that have a thermogenic effect in our body that will cause the body to release this stored energy (body fat) as usable heat/energy. Water has zero calories, but the body has to expend units of heat (calories) to warm up this water which can lead to a thermogenic (fat releasing) effect on our fat cells causing them to release energy. A large portion of our re quired daily calories are used for controlling temperature, whether its to cool us, or to heat us and our body will work hard to keep our thermo stat at 98.6 degrees. Example: according to the American Counsel on ex ercise, you can bum up to 400 calories an hour from shivering. The way I would interpret this, is “if there are not enough calories from food in the digestive system,” this shivering is causing a ther mogenic (fat burning) pro cess, which causes a release of energy from our fat cells for heating purposes. A similar process happens for the sweating process when the body is pumping water through our cooling system and this is what keeps us from overheating. Our body, when given enough water during times of heat, is really good at pushing this heat out and it bums lots of calories keeping our temperature where it’s supposed to be! Each pound of fat holds approximately 3,500 calo ries, and when these units of energy are released, whether for heating the body, cooling the body or for daily activities and exercise, “it works like the energy we get from food” except is has the slenderizing effect many of us our looking for. A study that was published in the Journal of Clinical En docrinology and Metabolism showed that drinking about 2 cups of water increases me tabolism by 24 percent. That sounds like a lot to me and I don’t know exactly how the groundwork was laid to arrive at this percentage, but when you figure that every single action and reaction in the body is reliant on hydration, “this could be a very reason able increase.” When we imagine our sever al trillion cells needing hydra tion, “there has got to be a lot of activity when water enters the body and gets transported throughout our system.” Which is best, “cold or room temperature?” Water has been shown to increase the metabolism even when water was 98.6 (normal body temperature), and I believe it’s because of the simple fact that our body kicks into Pay at a Time Victoria ’’Vicky” Simmons vsimmons54@gmail.com and eventually it became too expensive to have a studio. Nowadays everyone thinks they are photographers with their smart phones. Some do take pretty good photos but not all. Funny, how times change. I still have friends and people who remember my photography days and ask me to take photos and occasion ally I do but not on a regular basis. There is just not enough time and you need lots of equipment to truly operate as you should. Plus editing pho tos takes up a lot of time and I do not want to spend my time editing photos on a computer for hours on end. While I still do enjoy photography it is not as big a priority as it once was in my life. Our lives change and our pri orities change as we get older I believe and I am especially aware of what I invest my time in more now than ever. Life is never to remain the same. Change is a constant. While I am one of those who embrace change kicking and screaming all the way, I have to admit some changes are for the better. It’s just figuring out those that’s the key to not let ting change drive you crazy. Wishing you each a very blessed week. Embrace change, because it happens on a regular basis! Your Health by Wade Yoder Master Trainer & Fitness Nutrition Specialist overdrive whenever we give it the product it needs to hydrate the several trillion cells in our body “and it takes this job very seriously since hydra tion is next in line to oxygen, when it comes to survival!” However if you want to increase the thermogenic (fat burning) effect it has on the body, “drink it cold.” Your body has to bum calories (units of heat) to get cold wa ter’s temperature up to body temperature at 98.6 degrees, so the colder the water, “the more calories (units of heat) our body has to bum to get it to body temperature. If we knew how good clean water tastes (with no addi tives, chemicals, or sugar) to the trillions of cells in our body, “it would taste like des sert to our mouth!” The Georgia Post is published every week by Crawford Publishing, LLC. 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