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Today my husband and I brought a cake to his mom at assisted living for her 96th birthday. We shared with her friends there and sat around chatting. I learned there is a hidden courtyard where a few of the residents have planted vegetables and flowers. Since they already have some roses, I asked, "Would you like me to order a few peonies and come plant them this fall?" You should've seen the expressions on their faces. It was as if I had just offered eternal life and unlimited money. They have reached the point in their lives where even a small kindness is unexpected. I've ordered the flowers I think will be perfect and can't wait for September. Friends, it's so easy to make other people happy. Makes you wonder why we don't do it more often.

Iran would have no incentive to mine the Strait of Hormuz if we weren’t there. Pull our forces out & Iran faces major pressure to open the Strait from the rest of the world & loses their justification. Staying in our current posture is inviting escalation for zero gain.

@JamesMelville She is the Bridget Bardot of our times .. natural beauty growing old gracefully

Kate Winslett speaks out against cosmetic surgery: 'It goes against my morals, the way that my parents brought me up, and what I consider to be natural beauty. I take pride in it because it is my life on my face, and that matters. The secret to ageing at any age, is actually accepting who you are and accepting that we can't fight change. If a person's self-esteem is so bound up in how they look it's frightening. Others do everything they can to not be themselves. People who save up for Botox or the shit they put in their lips. What idea of perfection are people aspiring to? I blame social media and its effect on mental health. And do they know what they are putting in? The disregard for one's health is terrifying. It’s fucking chaos out there.”

6 ways to have a good weekend: 1. Drink coffee. 2. Avoid people. 3. Read books. Go for a walk. 4. Drink more coffee. 5. Keep avoiding people. 6. Read more books. Go for a walk.

@kunoichi_jp_ Go to Kamiyamada

This is not the Japan on travel posters. Real Daily Life in Japan #3 A small town street in Japan. No famous temple. No big city lights. No tourist crowds. Just houses, narrow roads, local shops, vending machines, utility poles, bicycles, and quiet everyday life. For many Japanese people, this kind of place feels completely normal. But maybe this is the Japan many people wanted to see. Machi（町） = town

@KhalafAlHabtoor Beautiful … which area is this looks amazing

جولة سريعة في الحديقة الخلفية لمنزلنا في #الريف_الإنجليزي، للاطلاع على بعض أعمال الصيانة والتطوير الجارية فيها. ومن أجمل ما في هذه الجولة رؤية الطبيعة الممتدة بلا حدود؛ حقول القمح الواسعة، والهدوء، والخضرة التي تمنح الإنسان راحة وصفاء مختلفين. كما سعدت برؤية بيت الدجاج والاطمئنان على كل التفاصيل الصغيرة التي تعطي المكان روحه الخاصة. في مثل هذه الأماكن، يدرك الإنسان قيمة البساطة، والارتباط بالأرض والطبيعة، بعيداً عن صخب الحياة اليومية.

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@ZubyMusic Travel Plans for Eid …

What are you currently excited about?

what a GREAT idea. Why not put child care centers into retirement homes??

@thealepalombo Almost no fish ?? @grok

A glass of red wine at lunch, cheese with every meal, almost no fish, even on the coast. This is what people in the world's longest-living region eat. Men there reach 100 at ten times the global rate. Not the Mediterranean diet we've all heard about. I'm Italian. Longevity isn't my expertise, but the Blue Zone research caught me. I went deep on one question: which other Italian regions have the same patterns, and which qualify for the 7% retirement tax. Below: Italy's full Blue Zone map. 1 certified, 6 candidates. 6 of 7 also 7% eligible. Plus a livable town for each. 🧵

Wholeheartedly agree!

This is how a slow morning starts at a 150 year-old ryokan. A ryokan is a traditional Japanese inn where you step into old‑school Japan: tatami‑mat rooms, sliding paper doors, hot‑spring baths, and a serene, unhurried atmosphere that comes with it all.

Hayatımız boyunca hediyeleri yanlış paketlemişiz. Japan’da ise sadece tek parça bant kullanıyorlar.

Today’s interiors are more concerned with being universally liked than deeply remembered. Make spaces layered, theatrical, and opinionated—impossible to confuse with anyone else’s.

@Bozenka_2023 @NorlandCollege They absolutely do. The building however needs a lick of paint !

My bus into Bath fortuitously stopped outside Norland Nanny College at just the right moment today. Don't they look smart!

Thoughts about Japan: I got stuck in Japan during the pandemic for 9 months without being able to fly back home. At the time, I was staying in a 6-floor hostel in Ryogoku, completely empty except for me. The staff slowly became my friends since I had no one else in Japan. After the third month of lockdown, my money ran out. They noticed the slow decay in my condition. I was eating half a meal a day. One day, out of nowhere, they called me down to the reception. There was a big box, surrounded by several smaller ones. The staff had told their friends and families about me, and together they gathered groceries and essentials to help me get through those difficult months. There were even handmade face masks someone had sewn because they were impossible to find in stores. I was so overwhelmed with gratitude that I broke down in tears. From that day on, more than friends, we became family. Japan and its people embraced me when I was at my lowest point. It healed something in me when I needed it the most. Thank you Japan.

Thoughts about Japan: Japan is so much more than Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka. I love taking the train and staying in random cities with no expectations, places where travelers usually don’t go. On my first trip, around 12 years ago, I was backpacking and ended up in Numazu, a quiet coastal city with beautiful views of Mt. Fuji. A friend and I went out to explore and found a small open restaurant, so we walked in. A nice lady greeted us with the usual “irasshaimase”, a warm welcome you hear when entering places in Japan, and guided us to our table. The menu was all in Japanese, so we pointed at dishes and ordered based on the images, having no clue what they tasted like. Part of the experience. We were their only customers, and I could see the surprise on her husband, the chef, seeing foreigners there. They wanted to talk to us, but the language barrier was too strong. Then suddenly, their young daughter, who had been studying us from afar, ran in, grabbed her mother’s phone, opened Google Translate, and the magic started. The barrier was gone. They were so curious about our trip that they even sat down and ate with us. I showed them photographs I had taken around Japan, they loved seeing their country through foreign eyes, the husband even said we had traveled Japan more than they had. Time passed, and we had to say goodbye. We stepped out, and out of nowhere, the young girl ran toward us and showed us the phone: “Where are you going next?” We showed her a shrine we were going to walk to. She told us to wait and ran back inside. Moments later, they closed the restaurant, brought the car around, and gestured for us to get in. The whole family joined. They drove us all the way to the shrine. Before we left, the husband pulled out the phone one last time: “You guys have a long journey ahead. It was a pleasure meeting you. Enjoy Japan.” These experiences are why I travel, and why I love photography. Thank you Japan.

@YourAnonOne Compared to hotels, ships have stricter & better cleaning protocols, 24/7 security, and lower crime rates than on land!! Illness outbreaks get more publicity due to reporting etc …but overall risk is far safer than driving or many everyday activities ..

#BREAKING: More than 1,700 people are confined on a ship in Bordeaux, France, after a death possibly related to gastroenteritis, according to health authorities.

Right before you fall asleep, your hands and feet get warmer. That warming is the real trigger that switches your brain into sleep mode. A 1999 Nature paper tested it against melatonin, core body temperature, heart rate, and how sleepy people felt. The hand and foot warming won. The drawing in the tweet works on this exact trigger. The pose has a name in Japan: Mōkan Undō, or "capillary exercise." Katsuzō Nishi designed it in 1927. He was the chief technical engineer on the Tokyo subway, Japan's first. It became one of six daily exercises in his system, still done in Japan today. You lie on your back, point your arms and legs straight up, and shake them for thirty seconds. While the limbs are up, gravity drains the blood from them. When you lower them, the blood floods back into your hands and feet, warming them in seconds. Your brain reads that warming as a green light to sleep. The shaking activates a separate reflex, the kind most mammals use after a scare. Dogs and rabbits shake themselves off after a fright for the same reason. Dr. David Berceli, a trauma therapist, built a whole method around it, with certified instructors now in 40 countries. The shaking flips your nervous system out of "I'm wired" mode and into "I'm safe to sleep" mode. Nishi got the biology wrong. He believed capillaries, the tiny blood vessels at the ends of your veins, did the pumping. William Harvey, an English doctor, had shown the heart did the work, three centuries earlier, in 1628. The exercise still works, for entirely different reasons than Nishi thought. The drained limbs come back warm. The body reads that as a sleep cue, and the shaking calms the nervous system on top of it. A drawing on X with millions of views just rediscovered a 100-year-old Japanese sleep exercise. A subway engineer designed it first, decades before sleep scientists figured out why it would work.