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Locke Street Festival Saturday, September 8th
We are closed for the festival so that everyone can enjoy! There will be hundreds of vendors - definitely something for everyone.
The entertainment will start about noon, featuring local musicians, while the Family Zone will enthral the younger ones with science experiments and magic.
For more information check out Locke Street Festival or visit them on Facebook or Google+.
The entertainment will start about noon, featuring local musicians, while the Family Zone will enthral the younger ones with science experiments and magic.
For more information check out Locke Street Festival or visit them on Facebook or Google+.
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Getting Grounded
by Carrie Dennett of the Washington Post
It is not a secret that spending time in nature is good for you. For years, researchers have been detailing how people who live near green spaces — parks, greenbelts, tree-lined streets, rural landscapes — have better physical and mental health, and practices such as Japanese forest bathing and Nordic hygge, which has a strong outdoorsy component, are being embraced here in the United States. Could grounding be next?
I was intrigued when a colleague recently recommended a mutual patient — seeing her for stress management and me for nutritional advice — experiment
with walking barefoot in the grass for a short time each day. A few weeks
later, I stumbled across an article that gave a name to that practice:
grounding. The idea behind grounding, also called earthing, is that humans
evolved in direct contact with the Earth's subtle electric charge, but have lost
that sustained connection thanks to inventions such as buildings, furniture
and shoes with insulated synthetic soles.
I was intrigued when a colleague recently recommended a mutual patient — seeing her for stress management and me for nutritional advice — experiment
with walking barefoot in the grass for a short time each day. A few weeks
later, I stumbled across an article that gave a name to that practice:
grounding. The idea behind grounding, also called earthing, is that humans
evolved in direct contact with the Earth's subtle electric charge, but have lost
that sustained connection thanks to inventions such as buildings, furniture
and shoes with insulated synthetic soles.