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Juice Feast Day 1
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay ONE!
It has been joyous 🙂 A very smooth transition, and enjoyable day. I felt clear, clean, and chipper! I had plenty of energy and went for a bike ride and cleaned my house, all after work. I had forgotten how much JUICE a gallon really is…
Juice Feast Prep and Rattlesnake Adventures
Greetings to you on this last day of solid foodness for me 🙂 Synchronistically, the TOL Cafe made of their best desserts today, chocolate tiramisu, fully enjoyed by me as the last dessert for a while.
This morning I gathered a nice bunch of garden greens from our dome greenhouse – kale, chard, parsley, cilantro, spinach and snap peas. They shall be juiced tomorrow – YUM! I am excited for the added dynamic of garden grown greens to this juice feast. The last one I did was in the late autumn/winter, and the garden was mostly bare – thus leaving me with mostly imported produce from California to make juice from. This year, there is an abundance of overflowing greens and other items to include, and I have a feeling it’s going to make me EXTRASUPERCHARGED.
Emotional Eating – An Update
This afternoon I have been reviewing some of the comments and emails that I was sent back when I was writing thoughts about emotional eating, and my own journey with that, and other forms of it – compulsive eating, eating when not hungry, etc.
I realize I haven’t updated on that in a while, and I will. For those of you who are new to the blog since then, I will update you briefly. For me, it has always been food that I have used to numb, calm, distract, and occupy. I have used it to substitute for love, attention, comfort, or whatever else I have needed but haven’t yet formulated a way to get.
Once in a Blue Moon Snowfall
Ohh yes, updates updates.. It’s feeling like spring here during the day (contrary to the above picture of our recent snow) … and still quite cold at night. This weekend is supposed to be about 80, and sunbathe I shall!
I have enjoyed the hot tubs nearly every night for the past two weeks. I am so grateful for the opportunity for those experiences – crisp, cold, clean mountain air and a huge starry sky and silence enjoyed in a 104 degree hot tub.
Neologasmic Epicness
Happy Valentine’s Day!! I am so excited and happy today 🙂 I feel extra extra grateful and alive today. I’m not one to throw around the word gratitude when I don’t mean it, and today, I mean it 🙂 I have incredible friends and family, an amazing community here and all around the world, and sunny, warm days! I have books to read, journals to write in, mountains to hike on, sunbeams to lay in.. life is good. Really good. (Although my new Conscious Language advisor – Love ya J. – would ask that I use a more interesting adjective than, ‘good’).
Homemaking & Greenhouse Domes
Ohh I am just loving my new house 🙂 It is quiet and solitary, it has lots of windows and is oriented just right to welcome the sunlight inside. It has great airflow, and I’ve made it sunny, cherry and homey. I’ve never really been a ‘homebody’. I’ve never been interested in much to do with the home – arranging, decorating, and I despised cleaning. I always thought it was just me. But since being somewhere I LOVE, it’s all changed. I am so happy just spending time at home by myself doing all those things – cleaning, arranging, organizing, and decorating. It’s really a wonderful feeling. I wake up smiling with sun on my face and the breeze from the windows next to my bed. I actually look forward to getting up and doing things around the house before going to work – it’s somehow very meditative.
Tree of Life & Reversing Diabetes on the Food Network!
The Tree of Life’s Reversing Diabetes Naturally program was featured on the Food Network, for an hour long special this last Saturday the 7th. I think it’s the biggest PR that the Tree has ever had. I didn’t actually see it, nor did most people here, since almost no one has a TV. However, it seems like it went over well, because we in the Customer Services department received hundreds and hundreds of inquiries since Saturday. I have never been more busy.
Tidbit of Wisdom
From Neale Donald Walsch’s newsletter:
Betrayal of yourself in order not to betray another is betrayal nonetheless. It is the Highest Betrayal.
You are not avoiding betrayal by betraying yourself, you are merely choosing whom to betray. In fact, there is no such thing as “betrayal.” There is only the truth, finally spoken.
That is not betrayal at all. That is love. For another, and for yourself. Can you love that much?
Happy 2009!!
According to the current calendar our world uses, today is the first day of the NEW YEAR!!
2009. Wow. I’ve learned and done a lot this year. I haven’t made a list, but here are some things that are coming to mind as I write this.
Back in the Land of Cacti and Sun
Bonjour! Comment ca va aujourd ‘hui? My french is a bit rusty..
I am back in the sunny high desert, and glad to be here 🙂 I’ve lived in places with four seasons and harsh winters all my life, and truthfully, I don’t feel deprived not having them anymore. It was nice to be back home with lots of snow for *ahem* 5 days, but that was quite enough for me. Above is a picture of my dog attempting to make it through the feet of snow. Notice the odd pile of snow on the right? That’s on top of a birdbath..
Holiday Vacation
I have loved Calvin & Hobbes all my life. Above is one of my favorite of the snowmen series of comics. Some guy has archived them all here. Enjoy 🙂
Merry CHRISTMAS to those of you who celebrate it; Happy.. Thursday(?) to those who don’t..
I flew home to spend a few days with my family. I always have an odd feeling of minor culture shock when I leave Patagonia. Although I know perfectly well that not everyone knows the information about natural health and live food that I am fortunate to know, part of me always gets tripped out seeing people eating burgers and soda. Living in Patagonia, I’ll often go a month or months without seeing someone eating meat or dairy.. “Don’t they KNOW??”…?
The Sacred Journey of the Conscious Warriors
This Saturday was an excellently awesome day for me 🙂 A few friends of mine had been raving about a hike near their home in a canyon close to Patagonia. I was told it was quite an ‘acrobatic‘ and ‘physically challenging’ endeavor, being that most of it involved scaling of rocks – a spelunking type experience. Was it EVER. For fun, they even nicknamed this trek, ‘The Sacred Journey of the Conscious Warriors‘.
Desert Holidays & Dance
A FANTASTIC FRIDAY to YOU, my fieldly friends 😉
I hope everyone’s holiday season is going great! It’s odd being in the desert for Christmas. Up until the past two Christmases, I’d always lived in places that were snowy and very Christmas-y. I remember as a child marveling at people who lived in the desert and didn’t get to experience white Christmases.. ‘That’s not even CHRISTMAS!! They’re missing out on LIFE!” And here I am… nonetheless, though, I am humming carols, however out of place it is to do so..
Flags of the World Peace Prayer
World peace prayer with the flags and energies of 191 countries on Thanksgiving!
This was the first time that this world peace flag ceremony was done in a labyrinth. It took place on a brisk Thanksgiving Day walking the labyrinth at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center, Patagonia Mountains, Arizona.