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Fitbook seems to work

We have fitbooks in our clinic. And we hear from many of our patients that they prefer the apps on their phone, but here’s a story about one fitbook user who found it really does change things up when you write things down.

I know from apps I have on my phone that it’s easy to ignore the little icon. Appears I’m not the only one who finds actually writing something down has an impact. Will this continue to be true for future generations, I don’t know. I do know that writing works. Which is why we still have those fitbooks in our clinic.

6 weeks in and 15# down

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Holiday Season Begins

I got a Rosh Hashanah greeting from a vendor and thought ‘Ah hah I should write my Happy Rosh Hashanah post. Then I was reminded that the Hajj and Eid al-Adha is coming up (through the sad news that a crane had collapsed and killed 107 people) and of course Yom Kippur follows on the heels of Rosh Hashanah. But my Wiccan patients would be put out if I forgot Mabon or Autumn Equinox so here’s the holiday list for the rest of 2015:

SEPTEMBER 2015

  • 14-15
    • Rosh Hashanah * – Jewish  (begins sundown on 13)
  • 17
    • Ganesh Chaturthi ** – Hindu
  • 18
    • Paryushana Parva ** – Jain
  • 22
    • Waqf al Arafa – Hajj * – Islam (begins sundown on 21)
  • 23   Equinox
    • Yom Kippur * – Jewish  (begins sundown on 22)
    • Mabon * – Wicca/Pagan  northern hemisphere  (begins sundown on 22)
    • Ostara * – Wicca/Pagan  southern hemisphere  ( begins sundown on 22)
    • Shen of Winds, West and Autumn – Taoist
    • Shuki-Korei-Sai – Shinto
  • 23-26
    • Eid al Adha – Sacrifice Day * – Islam  (begins sundown on 22)
  • 27
    • Meskel – Ethiopian Orthodox Christian
  • 28
    • Sukkot * – Jewish   (begins sundown on 27 extends through Oct 4)
    • Birthday of Confucius – Asian
  • 29
    • Michael and All Angels – Christian

OCTOBER 2015

  • 4
    • Saint Francis Day – Christian
  • 5
    • Shemini Atzeret * – Jewish (begins sundown on 4th)
  • 6
    • Simchat Torah * – Jewish (begins sundown on 5th)
  • 12
    • Thanksgiving – Canada – Interfaith
  • 13-21
    • Navaratri ** – Hindu
  • 14
    • Hijra – New Year * – Islam  (begins sundownon 13)
  • 17
    • Shukaku Matsuri – Shinto
  • 20
    • Birth of the Báb – Baha’i   (begins sundown on 19)
    • Installation of Scriptures as Guru Granth – Sikh
  • 22
    • Dasara ** – Hindu
  • 23
    • Saint George’s Day – Christian
    • Ashura * – Islam  (begins sundown on 22)
  • 25
    • Reformation Day ** – Protestant Christian
  • 28
    • Milvian Bridge Day – Christian
  • 31
    • All Hallows Eve – Christian
    • Samhain (Northern hemisphere) Wicca/Pagan  begins Sundown Oct 30
    • Beltane (Southern hemisphere) Wicca/Pagan  begins Sundown Oct 30

NOVEMBER 2015

  • 1
    • All Saints Day – Christian
  • 2
    • All Souls Day – Catholic Christian
  • 9-13
    • Deepavali ** – Hindu
  • 11
    • Diwali (Deepavali) ** – Hindu – Jain – Sikh
  • 12
    • Birth of Baha’u’llah – Baha’i   (begins sundown on 11)
    • New Year ** Jain
  • 15
    • Nativity Fast begins through 12/24 – Orthodox Christian
  • 22
    • Christ the King – Christian
  • 24
    • Guru Tegh Bahadur Martyrdom – Sikh
  • 25
    • Guru Nanak Dev Sahib birthday – Sikh
  • 26
    • Thanksgiving- Interfaith USA
    • Day of the Covenant – Baha’i
  • 28
    • Ascension of Abdu’l-Baha – Baha’i  (begins sundown on 26)
  • 29
    • Advent begins – Christian
  • 30
    • Saint Andrew’s Day – Christian

DECEMBER 2015

  • 1
    • Suijin-Matsuri – Shinto
  • 6
    • Saint Nicholas Day – Christian
  • 7-14
    • Hanukkah * – Judaism (begins sundown on  6)
  • 8
    • Immaculate Conception – Catholic Christian
  • 12
    • Advent Fast begins- Orthodox Christian
    • Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe – Catholic Christian
  • 8
    • Rohatsu (Bodhi Day) ** – Buddhist
  • 16
    • Posadas Navidenas through 12/25 – Christian
  • 21  Solstice
    • Yule – Christian
    • Yule * – Wicca/Pagan northern hemisphere  ( begins sundown on 20)
    • Litha * – Wicca/Pagan southern hemisphere
  • 22
    • Taoist festival honoring Wang-Mu/Empress Mother
    • Tohji-Taisai – Shinto
  • 23
    • Mawlid an Nabi * – Islam ( begins sundown on 22)
  • 25
    • Christmas * – Christian
  • 26
    • Boxing Day
    • Zarathosht Diso (Death of Prophet Zarathushtra  ** – Zoroastrian
  • 27
    • Feast of the Holy Family – Catholic Christian
  • 28
    • Holy Innocents – Christian
  • 31
    • Watch Night – Christian
    • Oharai/Grand Purification Festival – Shinto

Let us all join together in the prayer that this new year will be a good and sweet one.

 

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Outside the office –

It’s almost the National Novel Writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo (some people call it November)

 

 

 

 

 

 

And again this year, I’ll be setting fingers to keyboard throughout the month of November. I hope others will as well. And if you do, you know someone who is or if you just want to support future novelists, I hope you’ll join me in donating to the cause: https://store.nanowrimo.org/donations