It's better to arrange to have someone house or apartment sit, or to arrange for a neighbor or friend to take in the milk, mail, and the newspapers, and to water and mow the lawn.

… with one vertuous touch Th' Arch-chimic Sun ſo farr from us remote Produces with Terreſtrial Humor mixt Here in the dark ſo many precious things

Here's a way to start improving your balance right now. Let's tune into a reference point, the place on which you can feel your weight concentrated, the spot that will always let you know whether or not you are in balance. I call this reference point the sweet spot of your foot. The sweet spot is just behind the big toe and to the side of the ball of each foot (some people grow bunions on this point).

The appeals to the public were also expressed differently: that is to say, much less by fallacious argumenta ad populum that played on the fears of the addressees, than by an appeal to rational insights, humanity and democracy.