
Grandma L. smoked like a chimney and lived until the ripe old age of 95. My cousin refuses to eat fruit and vegetables and yet he is as healthy as a horse. Did you notice that stunning woman over there? She seeks her solace in carbs, cola and ketchup …
To what extent does concern for our children set us up for failure?
Eat your vegetables or no ice cream for you!
You may not leave the table until your plate is clean!
I do not care if all of your friends eat this: I will not allow it in my house!
Desperate, despondent and willing to put anything in a bag: just let my child eat something…
Weighed down by guilt, buy ME prevails: taste appeal lost to colorful sweet talk in a package.
Don’t see. Don’t hear. Don’t speak…
If I could turn back time, I would do things differently.
I would choose pleasure, abundance and happiness. My parenting mindset would embrace education as a tool to empowerment. I would seek to expose my children to a rich rainbow of food choices: each offering color, excitement, pleasure and nourishment. The power of choice would be theirs.
It is interesting how a blog comes to life.
I wander delicately on a tightrope between my thoughts, memories and feelings until I discover a compelling meeting point between the trio and a looming thought. The acrobatics begin here. My thoughts they twist and they turn: I zoom in on my idea and then zoom way out, seeking allies all the way. Finally, the choreography clicks. I am ready to transcribe the steps into words. It is needless to point out that any resemblance to my initial thoughts is purely coincidental at best!
Such began my quest to spotlight glorious greens…
The first order of the day was to understand the love story between Popeye The Sailor Man and the infamous can of spinach… It appears that while a German scientist transcribed his results to print, the decimal point wandered to the power of 10. Thus instead of recording that spinach had an iron content of 3.5 milligrams per 100 grams of spinach, suddenly it was awarded with an iron content of a whopping 35 milligrams! This print typo remained uncorrected for close to 70 years. Popeye came to life in 1929 and soon became the hero of the day. He can even be held indirectly responsible for the surge in the popularity of spinach during the years of The Great Depression.
In the not so distant past, memories full of stored materials were of value. Today’s Age of Information has created a new reality. Suddenly how to learn has become far more important than what to learn.
Doctor Google knows all.
Any and all information is butt a mouse click away. Of course, the weight of responsibility lies within us. We must double check and cross check all information. The ability to wade through the sea of error, mistruths and falsehoods online is integral to our success.
Fast forward… No more glorious greens: merely green. Glorious is lost in the search of the “big picture”.
Embracing Green
Green is natural: less adornment more natural allure.
Green is nature: grown in the ground and not manufactured in a plant.
Green is inquisitive. No shame to be found in not knowing: nobility the ability to ask the right questions.
Green signals go. Don’t just stand there. Throw caution to the wind: be better than yesterday and tomorrow be better than today.
Green is a combination (of yellow and blue). Just as green is a combination of colors, our health is a unity of behaviors, some conscious and others not. Look to expand this unity: there is always room for more color.
Green is a new bike.
Hubby encouraged me to treat myself to a new steed. Today was my first time out. Despite the fact that I rode a similar demo bike numerous times, I felt a huge difference in our (me and my bike) performance. We smoothly climbed and twisted all of the challenging turns with ease where as previously speed had been the ace to conquer every challenge. I was puzzled; why this was so? Why did everything feel so markedly different?
I discovered that the demo bike was a large frame which had been adapted to a medium fit where as my bike was a medium frame from the start and all the accessories were a perfect custom fit to my frame.
Coming right at you! 🙂
Paula,
Yup, health is not a one size fit; what's more, what once may have been a perfect fit may be totally wrong for you today. I think that when we are in tune with our bodies we can easily recognize that something is amiss and adjust our diet and/or routine accordingly. Granted, at times that can be very challenging…
Happy to support and provide food for thought… Drop by sometime and I will prepare you some food for your soul ♥
Glad to be the flame to stoke the flames of your inner goddess 🙂
XO
Heleneie Beanie
Oh I'd love to sample some sensations from your kitchen!
Good week here for all rainbow colors❤️
Oh yes it is! Facebook profile pictures (mine included) are colored rainbow they are!
I ponder this so much. I used to seem so much more relaxed about foods and choices when I was younger. I've tired of being the food police, really. 80/20 sounds reasonable to me, and yet even relaxing 10 or 20% of the time I find my body goes out of balance again and I get bloated and tired and absent-minded. I am going to another phase of "that" [ugh] and my ND has muscle tested me for overgrowth of yeast. So I'm once again finding I must be more diligent. My grandma lived to 96 and never did smoke,… Read more »