Quotes and Notes

Engine 2 Diet

Recipes and information from a former Texas Fire Fighter who is the son of the cardiologist Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn.  Dr. Esselstyn is featured in the documentary Forks Over Knives.

Dr. McDougall’s Quick & Easy Cookbook

John A. McDougall, M.D., has been studying, writing, and speaking out about the effects of nutrition on disease for over 30 years.  ‘Speaking out’ may be best summed up in this comparison video “Low Carb vs. Plant-Based”

Brand New Vegan: A good source of recipes.

Klunker’s Kitchen: Another source of good recipes.

An early tutor of mine in radical journalism, the late James Cameron, once confessed that every time he addressed the typewriter he thought to himself: "Today is the day they are going to find me out".... I am consoled, when I suffer this very same apprehension, by the thought that the pope and the queen and the president all wake up every morning with a similar gnawing fear. Or that, if they do not, they deserve to be doubted and distrusted even more, if that were possible, than I doubt and distrust them now.

Have a lived life instead of a career. Put yourself in the safekeeping of good taste. Lived freedom will compensate you for a few losses.... If you don't like the style of others, cultivate your own. Get to known the tricks of reproduction, be a self-publisher even in conversation, and then the joy of working can fill your days.          -George Konrad

I loved these passages so much because I felt that they are so relevant to the struggles that I, personally, go through as a college student about to enter the real world, and I'm sure other students do as well. I feel like, today, so much effort is put in to be the person we think we "should" be. We take the classes we should, choose the major we think we should, take jobs we think we should because they'll improve our resume, even smaller things like picking out an outfit or choosing which words to speak seem to be fueled by these strange impersonal motives. But what I got out of this chapter is that living freely is the only way to live, and certainly the first step to becoming a young contrarian.