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In modern society, we live almost completely disconnected from the Earth, spending up to 90% of our time indoors. Isolation from nature’s vital life source has negatively impacted our health, causing an increase in mental health disorders, autoimmune diseases and chronic inflammation, among other ailments. As humans, we are a living microcosm of the Earth, … Read more
Several years ago, while on a routine neighborhood walk near his home in Greenville, Tommy Lewis Neal came upon a large mastiff at the edge of an unfenced front yard. The dog was standing motionless and silent among a crowd of people, and Neal had the sudden urge both to flee and to stay put … Read more
“Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think. Because although eating honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called.” ― A.A. Milne, … Read more
Corn cobs, bones, portions of a tennis ball, rocks, hunks of wood and five clear, palm-sized squeakers. This list may sound like a landfill inventory, but it’s actually items that veterinarians have dislodged from dogs’ stomachs and intestines. “There are so many interesting things we have pulled,” explained Jeremy Libby, DVM, the medical director and … Read more
Though Eli Clark was born seven-and-a-half weeks earlier than he was expected, his parents, Dr. Trey Clark and Stephanie Clark, took him home from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Medical University of South Carolina with no perceived issues. Yes, the child seemed a bit attached to his mother, but Stephanie attributed this to … Read more
Even when he was an early teenager growing up in Greenville, S.C. in the 1970s, Henry L. Clark recalls feeling down, listless, and borderline sad at certain times every year. “We called it being ‘down in the dumps,’” Clark said. “And it always seemed to happen for no reason, usually on cold, dismal drizzly days.” … Read more