cloth diapers, elimination timing, and just trying to connect with my child's rhythms all at the appropriate time worked well with my son and was not so financially draining either. Plus, breastfeeding, helps to make what babies eliminate not so gross. Being so aware also helped me, and the people at the care centers to gauge health (especially when the child is still learning how to communicate clearly via spoken language).
I hear that argument about art provoking thought all the time, but if you're conscious and aware, everything provokes thought. And really conscious work provokes consiousness. I think art is grace and it needs to be as rich a deifnition and interpretation as we inwardly demand from corporations, health care workers...and ourselves. That is not art...I saw someone scatter animal bones and call it art. If they were the bones of someone's you knew and cared about, it would not be art. There are more important things to think about...if art provokes thought, maybe people should consider what thought's need provoking. There are so many! I mean this caringly.