Living Well Chinese Medicine

06/13/2026

They may look like a canvas of cotton candy, but these rainbow nets are actually a brilliant form of pest control.

Stretched over crops, the kaleidoscope of colors confuses insects like aphids and whiteflies, scrambling their ability to locate the plants underneath. Some farmers have cut pesticide use by 25‑50% without losing yields.

The nets also act as shields against harsh sun, heavy rain, and wind, regulating humidity and reducing plant stress. It's a simple, sustainable trick that lets farmers protect harvests without dousing them in chemicals.

Practical science, painted in every color of the spectrum. 🧑‍🌾🌈

06/13/2026

Update for Mondays…. Come see me in my new office in Louisville, Colorado! Open house coming soon. goldingintegrativehealth.com (link in comments)

04/15/2026

04/15/2026

Acupuncture works a bit like this. As channels are discussed in the classics as water flowing. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/18BfYmmmmn/?mibextid=wwXIfr

03/29/2026

When a crow finds another crow lying lifeless, it often does not just fly away.

It calls out. Other crows gather. They become alert. They watch the area carefully.

Scientists have studied this behavior, sometimes called a “crow funeral,” and what they’ve found is striking. The crows do not appear to gather out of sentimentality in the human sense. They gather to learn. They look for danger. They try to understand what happened. And if they identify a threat, they remember it.

Crows are highly intelligent. They can recognize faces, remember risks, and warn others. So when they gather around a fallen crow, they may be doing something deeply adaptive: turning loss into awareness, and awareness into protection.

There is something important in that.

Many humans are taught to look away from what is painful. To avoid it. To numb themselves. But crows do something else. They pay attention. They investigate. They learn together.

That is a form of intelligence.

Not just mental intelligence, but social intelligence.

The kind that understands survival is not only about individual strength, but about shared awareness. About noticing danger. About communicating it. About helping the group become wiser because one life was lost.

Maybe that is part of what emotional intelligence really is too.

Not collapsing in the face of pain.
Not ignoring it.
But staying present enough to learn from it, and caring enough to make that knowledge useful to others.

A fallen crow does not go unnoticed.

The others gather.
They pay attention.
And they carry the lesson forward.

03/28/2026

Ladies, today is the last day to register for Dr. Sonny Miles' retreat in Colorado, and I encourage you to join. There are limited spots available.

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