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 This morning when doing my gentle Chi Kung exercises (Eight Pieces of Brocade which comes in a small book and can be learned fairly easily, a little at a time may work best., I thought about 'diabetes' as a word describing what exactly? Blood sugar regulation...but with that 'die' sound at the beginning of the word, I thought, why  don't we rename that condition that is affecting not onlly almot 30 million Americans, but as a prediabetes condion, 70 million more.

There are only 300 million people in the US, so that is One Third of the Country! We could call it 1/3rdabetes!

Hello Folks from NY to CA or Coast to Coast as August greets US One and All! Nice to think of those seas to shining seas on either side of America and as they stretch out to all continents as a reminder we could be "Planet Ocean". That was the name of an exhibit I saw at a Science Center in Florida when I was 16 and thought that was the craziest name for planet Earth. I really had not thought about how we are a planet of water with a little land above sea level so we can call this place hOMe in an amicable way.

 I like to think of PeaCe when seeing PC which also resonate with my family of origins names (one starting with P on my Dad's side and C on my Mom's). Now this is a post about not only me but everybody on the planet starting with the lucky folks who hear about the efforts of www.AppleseedPermaculture.org. Ethan Roland has a new book out, Regenerative Landscape I just saw when signing up for his newsletter.

These folks are unstoppable (and unfortunately so is climate change). I was fortunate to take a basic Permaculture (72-hour) class with Ethan and his trusty team of permie teachers in High