No machine, the human body included, can work at 100% efficiency. Thanks for this simple truth, kinesiology.
With athletes, we hear “Fuel the machine.” Eat regularly, don’t eat crap.
With workaholics, we hear “Work like a machine.” Keep motivated, don’t stop prematurely.
But when we look closer at a machine’s core, these phrases are not too relatable. Or praise-worthy.
Maybe it means that we are made to be much more like trees than like machines.


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June 13, 2011 at 8:53 pm
michmond
FACT: This redwood is 21 feet in diameter.
FACT: Some imaginative park ranger actually named it “Big Tree”…and it stuck.
FACT: I took this picture.
June 13, 2011 at 9:04 pm
michmond
But I just noticed it is out of focus…so I was clearly using your camera. Just sayin’.
June 14, 2011 at 4:55 pm
Susan
You have an incredible memory. Just sayin’. Next time, I need to actually read the plaques they post.