Simple Pleasures, Everyday Joie de Vivre.

If you haven't heard of etsy, you should head over to etsy.com and check it out. It is full of curios vintage and handcrafted goods, you are bound to find something and fall in love. Etsy has many original items to choose from, and handicrafts from a vast array of of talent. If you are looking for unusual gifts, antiques or quirky stuff, or something tailored perhaps, this is the place to go. I am just taking this week to share some of my etsy favourites, here is my top ten. 1. A fluer de lys ring.  So precious and beautiful. Yes put that in my stocking please. From here 2. A Cheese Cloche, yes cheese. There is something so classy about this dish.  From here. 3. A French rolling pin. I can get with this. You can get with it too! Is it for precision baking, yes maybe that's it. It's nice anyway.   It is here .  4. So I can really get back to my roots. Art inspired by cave painting. My god it looks just like the original. Y...

      unsplash-logo robin arm      Well, tao of joy has covered quite a bit on body and soul and soul searching does bring up questions of what is conciousness, different states of conciousness, energy, life and even life after death. But what about what we can do for our brain? Your brain is your mission control for your nervous system, it recieves input from your senses and outputs it to your muscles. Some people say, your brain is like a muscle and you can train it as such, to do more and be more.  Indeed, the message we keep recieving from fully functioning centenarians is to use it or lose it. Recently, something has been discovered called neuroplasticty, the ability of the brain to be flexible, with many promising outcomes of brain-training, even for instance to recover from a stroke, or sense things in case of blindness. Not only that but some specialist activities have already been researched that can improve your...