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12/13/2025

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12/13/2025

MOVE.
That is all. 💪🏼💪🏼

If you want to enjoy a healthy body, have vitality, and have beautiful skin, including at least 30 minutes of movement in your day. While working out is a popular solution, it’s not as crucial as “working in” in today’s stressful, busy environment.

Why?

Because more people than ever now work in a sedentary position, and sitting disrupts the natural function of our pump muscles that help move nutrition through the body and eliminate waste. If you’re short on time and really don’t enjoy the idea of working out, enjoy some gentle, rhythmic movement instead.

Choosing from some of the working in movements that can be found on my YouTube channel can go a long way toward preventing unwanted illness, injury, and unattractive skin resulting from a clogged, dirty body.

Love and Chi,

Paul

12/12/2025

Good Morning.

“Late in October in 1914 three brothers rode from Choteau, Montana, to Calgary in Alberta to enlist in the Great War…” And so begins Jim Harrison’s classic novella, Legends of the Fall. Hauntingly beautiful in its prose and scope, Legends would forever distinguish Harrison as a true master and one of the greatest writers of his generation. Published in a collection containing Revenge and The Man Who Gave Up His Name, these three novellas speak to us because in each of the protagonists we see a bit of ourselves. I admit to being a fan of the film adaptations. Legends of the Fall starred Anthony Hopkins, Brad Pitt, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond, and Henry Thomas. Revenge starred Kevin Costner, Anthony Quinn, and Madeleine Stowe.

If you have not read Harrison, start a fire, pour a strong drink and savor the moments you spend immersed in his work.

Jim Harrison on life: “In a life properly lived, you’re a river. You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it; you can’t figure out a banal game plan applicable to all situations; you just have to go with the ‘beingness’ of life.”

Jim Harrison on writing: “A large part of writing is a recognition factor, to have read enough to know what good writing is.”

Jim Harrison was born on December 11, 1937 and passed away on March 26, 2016. I would have loved to have spent a day afield with him. As fitting a tribute as I’ve ever read for an author was penned by Bernard Levin of the Sunday Times of London: “Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him.”

Photo by Andy Anderson

12/12/2025

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12/09/2025

Merry Merry 🎄🎅🏽 ✝️

60 years later and A Charlie Brown Christmas is still a staple. What a run!

12/09/2025

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12/08/2025

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WHAT IF YOUR DOG COULD LIVE TO BE 27!? ❤️🐾

Sadly, only one out of a thousand dogs lives up to 21-25 years. The vast majority of dogs die younger from various diseases, many of which are outcomes of lifestyle factors such as diet and exercise. So when we set out to write The Forever Dog book, we wanted to know, “what do these long-lived dogs have in common?” 🐶🤔

One of the dogs we came across was Buksi, a 27-year old mixed-breed in Hungary!! Dr. Eniko Kubinyi, the head researcher of the Methuselah dog study, told us Buksi lived on a horse riding farm🐎 and led a “free life”, able to make choices based on preferences and wasn’t constantly restrained in his movement. Like many other long-lived dogs we came across, he consumed raw unprocessed foods, spent a great deal of time outdoors, and also had a rich social life - having daily contact with new people👧🏻👨🏼‍🦳👩🏼, horses🐴, as well as other dogs🐕.

Diet, exercise, stress and environmental factors all play a role in our pet's wellbeing and potentially lifespan.🧬 What are some of the changes you’ve made in your pet’s life after reading The Forever Dog? We’d love to hear your comments and takeaways below! 💬👇

You can read more about these long-lived dogs and our suggestions for what you can do to help maximize your dog’s health in our new book: ForeverDog.com

12/08/2025

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