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Alisa Miller catalogs the many benefits of yoga into the following categories:  health benefits within and without, emotional health benefits, body chemistry, exercise health benefits, disease prevention, symptom reduction or alleviation, 

http://www.nursingdegree.net/blog/24/77-surprising-health-benefits-of-yoga/

Some Folks Are Just Born Sour

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For Illustration Friday:  Dover clip art manipulated in Photoshop.

Mona Lisa's Eyebrows

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The Mona Lisa is one of many iconic images in our culture.  Much has been written about her enigmatic smile. Many have parodied the image (think Lisa Simpson).  

A French engineer designed a special camera and created a 240 million pixel image of the painting.

The device scanned a 240-million pixel image using 13 light spectrums, including ultra-violet and infrared.

The resulting ultra-high resolution photograph of 150,000 dots per inch yielded a reproduction of the "Mona Lisa's" face magnified 24 times. And there Cotte found the evidence he sought -- a single brushstroke of a single hair above the left brow. 

Leap of Faith

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illofrileap.jpgMy maternal grandmother arrived at Ellis Island as an infant on November 10th 1906 with her mother and father after leaving Vilnas Lithuania by way of Hamburg, Germany.  I can't even begin to imagine what an ocean journey on the SS Armenia might have been like.  Digital illustration.

Blanket

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illofriblanket.jpg"Winter is not a season; it's an occupation."  Sinclair Lewis

In the midwest we have been blanketed with snow again today.  It makes me want to crawl underneath a blanket and not come out until May.  My Aunt Mary taught me how to crochet many years ago--I made this when I was in high school.  I'm glad to see knitting and crochet come back into vogue.

This is a digital illustration of a crocheted blanket I have on my office side chair.

No Shortcuts

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Plain

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We picked up a couple of cute cacti at Wal-Mart a month ago when we were buying new LED Christmas tree lights.  Just a couple of bucks, they had some colorful blooms at the top.  After a little research, we found out that _20080123fairycastle0001.jpgthe blooms were fake.  We removed them from our Fairy Tale Cactus plants, so now they are plain.

Journal Zantangle Doodles

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December Doodles about Time

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