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No part publication may reproduced without written permission publisher. Opinions expressed contributors not necessarily those BY DR. RANDALL NIEHOFF Your health well-being depend it Almost everything work again if unplugged few minutes, including you. --Anne Lamott RAN PHOTO PATTI SOUSA ALL OTHER PHOTOS DANIELA JAEGER W herever be, summer time taking vacations. goal so much change places as paces. Vacation derived from Latin word vacare unoccupied, idle, vacant. To vacation means free enjoy leisure time, or, putting simply, play have fun. Most us no problem recognizing obvious can happen almost anywhere IF willing able take turn away business usual create little monkey business. While responsibility conscientiousness needed most there more life than achieving goals. Comedian Steven Wright wryly observed Ambition poor excuse having enough sense lazy. old adage still holds makes Jack dull boy. Niehoff Endless beach shelling enjoyed young family Europe. Left right father Mike, mother Sabine, their sons, Luca Matteo. bright shine happiness reflection experience fun seen inside when folks tackle puzzles, cards, draw picture, putter workbench, make music, or root teams visible outside they tend garden, ride bike, hit ball, pick seashells, watch bird, just ramble all who wander lost. happens before our eyes dolphin surfs boat wake, crow steals golf ball green, dog brings thrown retrieved over again. Even sturgeons been gulp air, then releasing underwater, chasing bubbles rise yet. How do define scientific research boils answer down two primary characteristics distinguish 1 voluntary chosen pressure nonfunctional doesnt help obtain food, protect against danger, aid reproduction species. Then why animals humans marvelous exploration found recent book David Toomey, professor English University Massachusetts, Amherst Kingdom What Ball-bouncing Octopuses, Belly-flopping Monkeys, Mud-sliding Elephants Reveal About Life Itself. For sure, Toomeys survey implies several expressions mindfulness normally thought human quite real throughout animal kingdom, such imagination, humor, emotion, joyfulness. But even that, ecological journalist author Richard Adams Carey pointed out review Wall Street Journal Social between members same different species relies on--and develops--self-awareness, reciprocity, empathy, restraint, feel rules boundaries, fledgling morality. This true wolf pups wrestle free-range children. Unfortunately, children playing range ought be. rarely left unsupervised own fun, negotiate rules, develop face-to-face relationships. Toomey cites neuroscientist Jaak background Matteo search perfect shell. 10 Panksepp who, commenting generational shift American child-rearing, warned caught unplanned cultural experiment involving what amounts deprivation. He argued too many youngsters never get sufficient natural, self-generated play. That one cause current epidemic hyperkinetic kids inadequate control impulses. In fact, studies criminally violent men reveal strikingly common absence normal during childhood. Equally unfortunate adults heeding call come German philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe reminded Many people money till nearly end it, others time. Fortunately, sake well-being, doctor ordered...starting today Ran has trying balance since 1991. proudly show shell treasure finds. 11 SUSAN BENNETT Grounding Spot opens Coconut Point TOP BOTTOM BRET BORSHELL RIGHT COURTESY GROUNDING SPOT Red light therapy merged Our Yoga Place Mall offer owners mental fitness club. new concept wellness open founders worlds first club grab-n-go caf. venture, Spot, creation Frances spent years studying how integrate disciplines place thrive, which company slogan. According founder, relaxation, positive mindset, connection, good nutrition health. 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Learning behavior enable capture flight action images disturbing harming them. birders photographers sunrise midmorning, sunset. Morning activity. Online sources bird-rich spots world, America, locally. eBird, real-time, database observations. Ritch Grissom Memorial Wetlands, Viera De Soto Pinellas Merritt Wildlife Refuge Titusville. birding. Locally, Black-crowned heron perched Brazilian searching prey country road Six Mile Cypress Slough, Cecil Webb Management Area, others. Just roads canals, native habitats Sometimes, yard yields photo ops. determine attract arrival spots. Based observations, techniques capturing image. photography, prone non-threatening posture shore me. constantly camera settings attempting approaching image subject. Cox photographer ecologist Visit him williamrcoxphotography.com. ADVENTURE ALPHABET TREE DAVID DROTLEFF MayJun continuation pages Drotleff. continues book, covering letters X, Y. BE CONTINUED 85 expertly told story crazy loving memoir self-published, poorly reflections interesting readers smattering amateur reviews publications appear Fruit, Felony, none true. Yes, Annabelle Tometich, big-time publisher Little Brown Company, extremely written, reviewed York Times, appearances away, Tometichs mesmerizing. Though reviewer opened page dislike followed, wrong. book. spot-on description context. clod swamp torn Seminoles, drained, razed, carbon-copied cities surrounding Tampa. Miami... NewsPress iteration Jean Le Boeuf, eldest child shall slightly Filipina, Josefina, escaped Manila becoming emigrating States 1978 father, Lou, sort reconstructed hippie Cod, retirement Tometich puts Dad lived Mom supported hers died. 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