Let's eat complex food, naturally

Our ancestors didn't suffer from chronic degenerative diseases.

Sound interesting? check out the research...

http://westonaprice.org/moderndiseases/index.html

Confused About Soy?--Soy Dangers Summarized

• High levels of phytic acid in soy reduce assimilation of calcium, magnesium, copper, iron and zinc. Phytic acid in soy is not neutralized by ordinary preparation methods such as soaking, sprouting and long, slow cooking. High phytate diets have caused growth problems in children.
• Trypsin inhibitors in soy interfere with protein digestion and may cause pancreatic disorders. In test animals soy containing trypsin inhibitors caused stunted growth.
• Soy phytoestrogens disrupt endocrine function and have the potential to cause infertility and to promote breast cancer in adult women.
• Soy phytoestrogens are potent antithyroid agents that cause hypothyroidism and may cause thyroid cancer. In infants, consumption of soy formula has been linked to autoimmune thyroid disease.
• Vitamin B₁₂ analogs in soy are not absorbed and actually increase the body's requirement for B₁₂.
• Soy foods increase the body's requirement for vitamin D.
• Fragile proteins are denatured during high temperature processing to make soy protein isolate and textured vegetable protein.
• Processing of soy protein results in the formation of toxic lysinoalanine and highly carcinogenic nitrosamines.
• Free glutamic acid or MSG, a potent neurotoxin, is formed during soy food processing and additional amounts are added to many soy foods.
• Soy foods contain high levels of aluminum which is toxic to the nervous system and the kidneys.

the woodcarver

- written by Thomas Merton (the way of chuang tzu)

Khing, the master carver, made a bell stand of precious wood. When it was finished all who saw it were astounded. They said it must be the work of spirits.
The prince of Lu said to the master carpenter "what is your secret?"

Khing replied: "I am only a workman. I have no secret. There is only this: when I began to think about the work you commanded I guarded my spirit, did not expend it on trifles, that were not to the point. I fasted in order to set my heart at rest."

"After three days fasting I had forgotten gain and success,
after five days I had forgotten my body with all its limbs."

"By this time all thought of your highness and of the court had faded away. all that might distract me from the work had vanished. I was collected ini the single thought of the bell stand."

"Then I went to the forest to see the trees in their own natural state. When the right tree appeared before my eyes the bell stand also appeared in it, clearly, beyond a doubt. All I had to do was to put forth my hand and begin."

"If I had not met this particular tree there would have been no bell stand at all."

"What happened? My own collected thoughts encountered the hidden potential in the woods. From this live encounter came the work which you ascribe to the spirits."

latest weaving

Feral Life

I've just returned from 5 days of bear hunting, basket weaving, pipe making, plant identifying, cedar harvesting, bicycle riding, deer eating gloriousness!

The idea of living feral is interesting. Whereas Colonization can be understood as the domestication of humans, the process of decolonizing is to leave (at varying degrees) the domesticated life, reprioritizing our near exclusive relationship with life as human life, and engage with the multifaceted life force that constitute Life. All of existence.

Living Feral, as it were, can be glorious! The two story 'squat house' with sleeping lofts, piano, work/craft area and couch brought me to life. A group of people can accomplish so much, and don't necessarily need to be 'trained'.

Each day, to wake and be inspired, and to live that inspiration, reminded me of the hebrew word Dabhar. English versions of the bible read ...in the beginning was the word...

well 'the word' or Dabhar

...signifies an outburst of creative energy endowing the recipient with truth, love and meaning. It denotes a release of liberating power that awakens into being what previously either did not exist at all or existed in some type of chaotic and disordered state...
(O'Murchu, Religion in Exhile)

The garden of Eden was not a single place, but all places where humans existed as part of that life, of that living, of the word.

We are all of people whom lived in these Eden's, and I have not often lived a life inspired by my creativity, to experience freedom

Wendell Berry antagonizes, "Our kitchens and othere eating places more and more resemble filling stations, as our homes more and more resemble motels. 'Life is not very interesting' we seem to have decided. 'Let its satisfactions be minimal, perfunctory, and fast.' We hurry through our meals to go to work and hurry through our work in order to 'recreate' ourselves in the evening and on weekends and vacations" (essay, The Pleasure of Eating)

May my living become congruent with my beliefs
And by not taking myself too seriously
I learn to be compassionate
In the work of
responsible, authentic, experience

What garden do you live in?

.......


if we believe time is now
then there is no rush
if we beleive there is enough than we can enjoy now
if we stop long enough to notice we will hear
and in the forest is music
and it is this life, to dance


........

In regards to yesterday's Election results

May these timely words be found by those we've elected to make decisions for our province.

Thich Nhat Hanh reminds us...

We are imprisoned in our small selves.
thinking only of the comfortable for this small self,
while we destroy our large self.

One day I suddenly saw that the sun is really my heart,
my heart outside of this body.

Think and Feel
But primarily Live!

Manifest those ideals
And tell me about them
As I live with you and notice
the choices you live

Capital L Life

to live meaningfully is
to engage with the experience of this life is
to be part of Life

i aspire to need
to be needed by
the systems larger than life and death
the systems of Life

That anything exists is an expression of wholeness
Nature, Knowledge manifest
life is to be one
with Life

and i'm interested in rejoicing!
as a living expression of Life
by living cycles
not life times
not life as a line

so smile!
(that there are smiles is worthy celebration)

here's to life
...

bc politics - the time is now

In 2005 Canwest media donated 50 grand (!) to the bc liberals

so what?!?

Canwest owns
the Vancouver Sun and
the Vancouver Province.
the Victoria Times-Colonist.

They are all owned by CanWest Media Inc.!!!

I wish each moment to be so alive

to be a timeless catapault

flinging us effortlessly

into the next moments

of this life

so that there is nothing but

weightlessness

and possibility