On the anniversary of my burst aneurysm in October of 2004, many people have asked me what I’ve learned. I’ve written about this extensively in many of my earlier diaries, but I thought I’d sum it up here. You might even call this diary “What I Learned from the Sick Year” (to paraphrase of the diet book I am posting, one chapter at a time, every week on this website).

I guess the simplest way to put it is, you must live out of love. You must operate from a basic platform of loving other people. This must be your stance as you go through life.
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Newswise – While we all want to overcome racial prejudice, we should be aware that it’s actually instinctual which is why it never completely goes away. It’s a form of DNA common sense, hard-wired into the human brain through evolution, as a way to identify our “pack” or tribe and to protect our prehistoric ancestors from danger.
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Congress has amended the Organic Food Production act to allow food additives and processing aids such as chemical stabilizers in organic foods, without public review. It has also granted organic food producers the right to continue antibiotic treatment and genetically engineered feeding of young cows prior to their entering organic production, and the emergency substitution of non-organic ingredients for organic ingredients without the public being informed.

The amendment was strongly backed by the Organic Trade Association and opposed by the Organic Consumer’s Organization. It leaves the United States with the weakest organic food production standards in the developed world.
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In her new diary, Anne Strieber writes: “On the anniversary of my burst aneurysm in October of 2004, many people have asked me what I’ve learned. I?ve written about this extensively in many of my earlier diaries, but I thought I?d sum it up here. You might even call this diary ‘What I Learned from the Sick Year’ (to paraphrase of the diet book I am posting, one chapter at a time, every week on this website).”

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