Adventure to the Real World
A Hollyhock Retreat
Luxury for the Body and Soul
by Jean Macleod le Cheminant

I’m an outdoor girl at heart, it’s just that my body craves comfort. That’s why I yearn after adventure holidays but just can’t bring myself to sign up. When I see a picture of Hollyhock, a learning centre somewhere off the west coast of Canada, it looks like my ideal adventure. It has ocean, whales, and even glaciers on the mountains. I don’t expect to do anything more than add it to my fantasies until a friend who notices the smoke coming out my ears during a particularly trying time in my career suggests taking drastic action.

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Meihuazhuang or Plum Flower Post Martial Art
Kung-fu and Qigong Health Training
by Raymond Ambrosi

Popular since the 1500s, meihuazhuang is an ancient martial art which is still practiced by hundreds of thousands of practitioners in rural areas of Shandong, Hebei, Henan, and Jiangsu provinces in north China. In past centuries, teachers of meihuazhuang travelled among the countless villages scattered across the vast north China plain. These knights-errant traversed many kilometres from village to village; their martial prowess, healing abilities, and knowledge were widely sought out by students and non-students alike.

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Ah, Potatoes!
Yummy Nutrition
by Paulette Millis

The potato is a perennial herb belonging to the Solanaceae, or nightshade family. The potato plant has fibrous roots with many underground rhizomes that swell at the tip and become the edible tuber. It is a cool weather crop which cannot stand much frost. We grow potatoes by planting pieces of them bearing 2 or 3 eyes. They can grow in a small space and require no special equipment for growing and harvesting. In addition to the four major varieties–russet Burbank, Katahdin, California, and Pontiac–there are many interesting new varieties to try such as the banana potato, Yukon Gold, and even purple-fleshed potatoes.

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Intuition Technology or Dowsing
The Gift of Insight for Healing
by John Living

Intuition can be described as a "feeling" that something is good (or bad) for us. Most of us have been guided by intuition many times and would like to get that help more often. While science tends to investigate all matters in depth, technology accepts that something works and looks at improving the methods used. Healers and others have used kinesiological methods such as the resistance of muscles to bending and the "stickiness" between thumb and finger to get answers to questions about both sickness and cures.

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Editorial
by Melva Armstrong

We are already through half of 2002 which is hard to believe. Time seems to be moving so quickly and so are people. Tonight I was out for my walk in a nearby residential area. As I moved along the quiet crescents and streets I could hear the constant humming of cars zooming along the busy nearby streets and in the distance I could hear the machine-gun-like crackle of a high-powered car pressing the gas peddle to the floor as if in a race. I didn't see anyone just sitting on a chair in their yard or on their front steps relaxing. Instead I saw people of all ages scurrying to their cars, their vans, their trucks, their motor-homes, their motorbikes, or they were whizzing by me on their bicycles, their rollerblades, their scooters, or their tricycles. I didn't see anyone enjoying stillness and relaxation. I find it fascinating how the pace of our world has changed so drastically in only eight years.

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