Wouldn’t it have been cool to be on the team that designed this year’s four new pennies? I love the penny–it’s the only coin in the US repertoire with a different color and that automatically stands out to me (except for those poor under-used gold dollars).
I’m totally into them, especially the log cabin and the construction of the capitol building.
Image from http://www.doobybrain.com/2009/02/12/new-us-penny-goes-into-circulation-today/.
They’re here! They’re finally here!
If you aren’t already following me on facebook (which I figure about 99.9% of my readers are) you can click on this link to check out some of them. I have almost 400 on my disc but I refuse to be one of “those people” with 7 facebook wedding albums all of pretty much the same stuff. I tried to give my friends something to look at, enough to get a feel of the event (if they were unable to go) but not be bored with.
Photos by the wonderful Mike Spear and Chadwick Gantes at The Visual Theory, who (aside from some US Postal Service problems) were delightful to work with and fun to party with. Thanks, guys!
Today’s GREAT read will change the way you eat and the way you think about food.
In In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan makes the claim that most of what we eat today is not, in fact, food but instead “edible foodlike product” engineered by science. It makes sense, if you think about it, when it comes to most boxed meals a person can get in a grocery store–dehydrated this, enriched that, most things we eat go through so much processing that even something that appears simple has an ingredient list (mostly unpronounceable) that takes up half of the side panel on the box.
He narrows down his “Manifesto” to this easy-to-remember slogan: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” He adds another rule of thumb–shop around the perimeter of the grocery store, that’s where the actual vegetables, the fresh meat, and the fresh bread are located… makes sense, doesn’t it? As a former adherent of the “I can’t cook!” crowd, I would encourage anyone skeptical about using actual ingredients to give it a go. Ask a friend who is good at cooking for help… healthy cooking is in fact easy!
My Friend Staci 