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Oysters live inside hard shells and have soft, sensitive bodies. When a grain of sand pushes into the shell, the oyster experiences great agony. If the oyster is unable to remove the painful irritant, it tries another approach and coats the sand...

When I was a child I knew that there was no such thing as age. That, in fact, people create age. When I saw my mother carrying on about being old (she was in her 40s at the time), I would tell her Mom, you don't have to be old. Of course, I was...

Remember comedian Groucho Marx with the cigar and glasses? He still has stuff to say... Each morning when I open my eyes, I say to myself, "I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday...

Nothing in the world is more yielding and gentler than water. At the same time, nothing is more powerful than water. Water has no equal in conquering, overcoming, or wearing down resistance. When a stream meets an obstacle in its path, it doesn’t...

There are lots of things you cannot control – the economy, the way others think or behave, the price of eggs, the Arab-Israeli conflict, Kim Jong-Un. It would be easy to become so immersed in the number of items you cannot control that you forget...

Happy Whale Story There was a wonderful story about a female humpback whale printed on the front page of the SF Chronicle. It happens that she became entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighed down by hundreds of pounds of...