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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 665507" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>I like the way Jimmy Carter is helping us all through the death of an icon. How kind of him, understanding his place in all of our consciousnesses, to prepare us for his death as he has.</p><p></p><p>I was thinking about that, this morning.</p><p></p><p>Good things, and bad things, and the sense and responsibility in how we interpret ourselves as we come through them.</p><p></p><p>But this is what I wanted to write for you, Copa.</p><p></p><p>The Benedictine entry I did not post about this morning had to do with the remembrance of a man, a priest, who was killed, back in the 1600s, for the nature of his beliefs. He died horribly at the hands of his own Church.</p><p></p><p>He was eighty.</p><p></p><p>Eighty, when they did what they did to him.</p><p></p><p>The point was that we are who we are, with all the good and the bad and with our abilities to choose, whatever our ages. That the physical is the vehicle, is the means of conveyance, of what is real.</p><p></p><p>Us.</p><p></p><p>Every one of us, whatever our stations or situations; whatever our betrayals or triumphs in the physical, what matters is the real thing that we are.</p><p></p><p>We all are coming face to face with the reality that our time here is not endless. We are seeing the way of things, of everything physical. I don't agree with this business of blaming the patient, of victimizing the addict and etc. Sometimes, D H and I try a new vitamin or something ~ here is an example. I have been reading "Cooked" by Michael Pollan. One section talks about fermentation. About whether our bodies are ours, or whether an alien species might classify us as carriers for the incredible number of microbes every living thing harbors. About how all that works. About how we think molds and bacterias are universally bad things when the reality is that it all works together. That when we take antibiotics, we are killing off the very things that keep the incredibly complex balance of life and health working.</p><p></p><p>So, I was telling D H about that.</p><p></p><p>And we said: That's it! We are going to ferment kim chee or sauerkraut or beer for the sakes of our intestinal microbes. Then? We say, like...no one dies in Korea, right?</p><p></p><p>Because neither of us likes kim chee.</p><p></p><p>And no matter how much kim chee they have eaten, and no matter how richly fermented, and with whatever microbes at work there...Koreans die, too.</p><p></p><p>So...maybe we will not eat that kim chee, then.</p><p></p><p>I love it that you said you would channel your inner Jimmy Carter. I will tell that one to D H tonight.</p><p></p><p>He is a sterling example of how to do this, of how to care for those we love while we admit and explore and accept. </p><p></p><p>Because it's a pretty scary thing.</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 665507, member: 17461"] I like the way Jimmy Carter is helping us all through the death of an icon. How kind of him, understanding his place in all of our consciousnesses, to prepare us for his death as he has. I was thinking about that, this morning. Good things, and bad things, and the sense and responsibility in how we interpret ourselves as we come through them. But this is what I wanted to write for you, Copa. The Benedictine entry I did not post about this morning had to do with the remembrance of a man, a priest, who was killed, back in the 1600s, for the nature of his beliefs. He died horribly at the hands of his own Church. He was eighty. Eighty, when they did what they did to him. The point was that we are who we are, with all the good and the bad and with our abilities to choose, whatever our ages. That the physical is the vehicle, is the means of conveyance, of what is real. Us. Every one of us, whatever our stations or situations; whatever our betrayals or triumphs in the physical, what matters is the real thing that we are. We all are coming face to face with the reality that our time here is not endless. We are seeing the way of things, of everything physical. I don't agree with this business of blaming the patient, of victimizing the addict and etc. Sometimes, D H and I try a new vitamin or something ~ here is an example. I have been reading "Cooked" by Michael Pollan. One section talks about fermentation. About whether our bodies are ours, or whether an alien species might classify us as carriers for the incredible number of microbes every living thing harbors. About how all that works. About how we think molds and bacterias are universally bad things when the reality is that it all works together. That when we take antibiotics, we are killing off the very things that keep the incredibly complex balance of life and health working. So, I was telling D H about that. And we said: That's it! We are going to ferment kim chee or sauerkraut or beer for the sakes of our intestinal microbes. Then? We say, like...no one dies in Korea, right? Because neither of us likes kim chee. And no matter how much kim chee they have eaten, and no matter how richly fermented, and with whatever microbes at work there...Koreans die, too. So...maybe we will not eat that kim chee, then. I love it that you said you would channel your inner Jimmy Carter. I will tell that one to D H tonight. He is a sterling example of how to do this, of how to care for those we love while we admit and explore and accept. Because it's a pretty scary thing. Cedar [/QUOTE]
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