Wracked with anxiety about our impending Prague departure, I try to make sense of my emotions with the help of Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide”.
Tag Archive: Health
Come Alive
“In what areas of your life are you preparing to live?” asks Jonathan Mead for Day 6 of the Emerson “Self-Reliance” project.
Suffer The (Girl) Children
The real life horror story of an 11-year-old child gang raped by a group of 19 males and her subsequent victim blaming in a major press outlet leads me to boycott the New York Times.
In the “Nought”ies I:
Many of the things that I did in the Naughts Decade. I probably left out a bunch, but anyway.
Food of The Gods: The Ethiopan Experience
My introduction to Ethiopia and its cuisine was in a Rastafarianism, Reggae, and the African Diaspora course I took in university. What struck me the most was learning that Ethiopia had never been colonized, and is one of the few African nations never to have been. Not for lack of trying, mind you. The Italians…
A Love Letter to Obesity
Written on a postcard of a scale carrying so much weight the needle is almost off the screen: You fill mewith disgust. Where a stamp could go but there’s no room left:Chateau, PragueMay 31, 2009How did you let yourself go like that? And don’t tell me it’s genetics, because when was the last time you…
Fevers
Fever isn’t just a great song by Peggy Lee. In fact, fevers are the body’s first defense against invading bacterias and viruses. A fever can effectively kill microbes without you even needing to take any medicine, although they can indeed be uncomfortable, what with all the sweating, shivering and the like. The only time to…
A Love Letter to Self-Sufficiency
Written in bathroom steam: You don’t know what you’ve got’til it’s goneand refreshingly back again. Where I hang up my towel:October 20, 2008Benatska 5, PragueAfter 8 weeks of double wrist injuries: I just bathed my own self and dried my own hair without any help at all.What a feeling.
A Love Letter to Physical Therapy
Written on postcard wrists using ultrasound gel: NoPainNoGain Where a stamp could go:October 20, 2008Lekarsky Dum (The Healing House), PragueI had no idea you’d be so rough.Then again, I’d no idea that six weeks with both hands in braces would feel better than this.
A Love Letter To Healing
Written with my left hand: Slow going, indeed,but each day a little bit furtherforward with you.On a fingernail I imagine:October 7, 2008PragueThankful.I am very, very thankful to have you in my life right now.
Notes About Nothing
*It has been six weeks since my last post. *In the last six weeks I threw out my back, found out it wasn’t my back that was the problem but rather Irritable Bowel Syndrome, watched season 1-3 of ‘Medium,’ and been on a detox diet of vegetables, rice and beans. *I’ve written before about the…
Water: The Source of Healing
Water is indeed the most magical substance on this planet. Our bodies are 75% water and our brain is 85% water. While we can last for 2 days with food and no water, we can last for 6 days with water and no food. Recent scientific studies are beginning to show that prolonged dehydration could…
Sage
Sage is one of the most powerful and magical of plants. There are numerous different types of sage and you will simply need to find which one is available near you. Sage is also known as salvia, and another related plant is sweetgrass, also used for cleansing and purification. Burning sage, which is also called…
a love letter to Hypochondria
written on a postcard that is the ether of my various paranoias where there is hardly any space to write because there are so many: my obsession with you has become too much for me.why do you always convince me that there is something wrong? where the stamp would go it says:granada, spainjune 13-16 2006there…
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Gluten: What You Don’t Know Might Kill You
Dear Dr. Hyman, Once again you have written an absolutely brilliant expose on something most people take for granted as a necessity in their dietary lives, such as wheat and wheat-based products. It’s a testament to our grab-and-go world that values convenience instead of healthiness that this hidden Celiac Disease epidemic has gotten to this…
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