by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
Heart Month 2024: my interview with Lindsay Dixon
by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
It was such a pleasure to be invited to do this February interview with award-winning pharmacist and brilliant science communicator Lindsay Dixon – our second Heart Month chat together for her Friendly Pharmacy 5 YouTube channel. . Continue reading “Heart Month 2024: my interview with Lindsay Dixon”
Swedish death cleaning isn’t only about death
by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
In 2017, Margareta Magnusson, a Swedish artist who describes herself as being “somewhere between 80 and 100,” wrote a best-selling book called The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter
She explores a Scandinavian concept in which you work on eliminating unnecessary items from your home so that your loved ones won’t be burdened with those tasks after you die. And she urges everybody 65 and older to get started on this process of shedding possessions.
It’s not imminent death that has prompted my recent interest in reducing clutter. This spring, I’m selling the tiny perfect 1-bedroom apartment I’ve loved for 17 years. And although pre-move sorting, packing and cleaning would be most heart patients’ idea of pure torture, I’m so surprised to discover how much I’ve been enjoying the immediate before-and-after results so far. . Continue reading “Swedish death cleaning isn’t only about death”
Cardiac research: more fun facts
by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
Do you have a book in your life that you keep opening just for the pure delight of reading it again? I am that obsessed with the book called The Exquisite Machine: The New Science of the Heart, published by MIT Press. In fact, I keep this book beside my favourite red chair so it’s always handy for re-reading random chapters. I’ve been doing this ever since veteran cardiac researcher Dr. Sian Harding wrote the book in 2022, and I can also say I haven’t felt this way about other books I love. So I can’t resist sharing with you some fun facts about our hearts and the research I’ve learned about from Dr. Harding’s work: . Continue reading “Cardiac research: more fun facts”
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