Within/Without

Peace! It’s time to get the fall garden together! Truthfully, I should have gotten it together last month but don’t judge me! As I do the 1 on what I should be planting, I notice something. I’ve noticed this before but never really gave it a good thinking over….. Fall is the season for greens. In the winter root veggies come due. In the summer, fruit. And the spring you eat whatever you can find and is also a good time for fasting and cleansing. Hmmmm…… Does this not make you think? Nature doesn’t waste. Food that grows in a specific season is what you need to deal with the ailments and qualities of said season. Maybe we shouldn’t be eating tomatoes in the winter. I may damage our bodies. Maybe we shouldn’t be eating mangos outside the tropical environments. Fruits are juicy and in the summer we wrestle with dehydration. Root veggies are more satisfying and take longer to digest. Digestion warms the body. That’s why they call it digestive fire. So this is more beneficial in the wi...

Peace. For all my attempts at maintaining a healthy lifestyle that keeps drug and disease free and increases my longevity, I have yet to try “Clean Eating.” I know it can be helpful, because everyone that gives it a shot swears by it. My carpooler says that his mother started eating cleaner and she lost a significant amount of weight. And she is old! She summed it up as, “If it’s white, it ain’t right.” I had a patient who is a body builder come into the office singing the praises of clean eating. Now it’s not like she had ever been on a true diet before. She was naturally thin. But she wanted to get cut for competitions. So she started to eat clean. What weirded me out was that she was eating more in a day than I eat in 2 (non-PMS) days. But all her food was “clean.” I could do that. “There are many people simply looking to remove the chemicals from their diets and bodies, and therefore eat clean. Their focus is NOT on losing weight, but on general health. They avoid processed f...

Peace. If y’all read my blogs you know me and my moms have a tenuous relationship at best. At my advanced age I have decided that she cannot be reformed so I have taken her foolishness off my planet. We speak… mostly via email (we speak on the phone 1x/month). And we see each other no more than 5x/year. And I asked myself when she returned to the essence, would I feel guilty about our state of affairs? And the answer truly is no. When I’m with her, I’m stressed and unhappy. I do my duty as a daughter to her. And I’m good with the way things are. But… One of the last times I saw her we went shopping. A mutually enjoyed hobby. I saw some BAD ASSED heeled sandals. Lawdemercy, they had to be 4”. I’m still getting moist as I think about them good sisters. My mother looked at the hotness on my feet and said, “Those shoes are nice. But they will break your uterus.” What? I was convinced that I needed to start investigating nursing homes because clearly my mother is losing it. I am nearl...