March 31, 2000 -- 8:19 AM
EST
Paul didn't get me any car epoxy.
He was too tired and in pain from the dentist. Four more teeth to go. I am
hoping the dentist can do it and it won't be a surgery thing. The plan now is
to let them come out a little more to see if he can grab them and yank them
himself. I have to get Paul dentist drugs. Made him minestrone and soft corn
muffins for dinner last night and I disguised the spinach. He ate it without
complaint.
Me?
I'm feeling happier -- maybe part
of my digruntledness was menstrual. I got my period yesterday afternoon and I
felt like dancing and cheering. My mood is sooo much better. Parsley tea works
like a charm. Besides being an emmenogogue it's also a mild diuretic. Period
bloat begone! I don't have that annoying boob thing going anymore.
While double checking my herbal
for the dose (1-2 tsp dried parsley to 1 cup water three times a day) earlier
this week, I came across a passage that was nice to think about:
"For a
reproductive system to be whole and functioning in a well-balanced and
integrated way, body and spirit must be well and thriving as a whole. If the
diet is deficient, menstrual problems or vaginal discharges may be generated.
If your way of living is not life-affirming, the system dedicated to the
creation of life will be adversely affected. For children to be born healthy
and happy, and for them to grow well, your lifestyle during pregnancy has to be
as good as you can make it. So it is best to check your health in general, but
also check your relationships to the world -- go for loving and nurturing
emotional support. Check your thought life -- do you think positively? What
sorts of books do you read, what films do you watch, what kind of politics are
you involved in? The energy within your body is affected by the energy around
you and -- more importantly-- by the way you relate to it. BE at peace with
your world and your relationship with it."
Ok, so the first chunk related to
reproductive health, but the end bit, once you get it past the uterine frame of
mind, is quite a nice little bit of food for thought. I like the idea of a
lifestyle being life-affirming. It sounds so redundant, so obvious.
But how many people really
feel like their lifestyle is a life-affirming one, a renewal, a regeneration,
rather than a life suck, a drain?
~Astrophe
  
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