today and today and today...

It seems that most of my life I have been an all or nothing kind of person. When the perfectionist realities of doing it all became impossible as they inevitably do then the nothing mode set in. The all mode includes living a multitude of past and future days all at once expecting to cope with this impossible pile up of days. The nothing mode was just that—do nothing because nothing works. Today I resolve to be a something person instead. I might not achieve perfection but I can celebrate simple progress however small it may be. I may not be able to do it all but I CAN do something. I can do something positive for myself today and make it just for today. My something for today is to live today and not yesterday or tomorrow. I can quite capably live what’s in front of me right now accepting that that is enough.

moderation mantra

The Greek philosopher Democritus is credited with having said “throw moderation to the winds and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.” My own personal experience supports this claim. Having just come through that most excessive of all excesses of holidays Christmas, the presence of the pain of excess is almost as abundant as the snow that has been falling all day. From shortbread to monster cookies to turkey and stuffing there has been no food moderation in my house for a number of weeks. The pleasure of excess has now turned into the pain of consequences—a few more rolls and cellulite that are now the focus of once again working out one day at a time. It’s January once again and moderation is the word of the month.

seed of the season

It has been said that the best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system. If that is the case then what we fuel our systems with has the power to heal or kill that system. This goes back to the old adage that you are what you eat. Food that is alive with essential nutrients as close to its natural form as possible is much more life giving and life promoting than food that has been processed, pummeled, putrefied, pretended or otherwise destroyed by the processes humans claim to improve upon what God initially created. This season of the year seems to be particularly fraught with the interference of man on what God has created as ‘food’ takes on a boxed and battered appearance in the name of convenience and comfort. So for this Christmas season one goal I have is to eat only healing foods that invigorate and stimulate my body’s built in pharmacy. Bring on the fresh fruit, nuts, and seeds of the season.