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Woke up this morning finding the weather still cold, had a little trouble breathing and my kidney acting up. Applied a lip gloss said hello to my dogs. Dammit! can't find my straw so I can drink without smearing the glass. |
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Tiggy I am going to buy magnesium this weekend. |
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deficiency. http://www.easy-immune-health.com/magnesium-and- vitamin- d.html#axzz17yAcNY66 So if you're loading up on the D make sure you take some more magnesium as well. |
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dissappointing, for sure, but it doesn't mean she's wrong on everything. http://www.vitamindcou ncil.org/ VITAMIN D'S CO-FACTORS Vitamin D has co-factors that the body needs in order to utilize vitamin D properly. They are: magnesium zinc vitamin K2 boron a tiny amount of vitamin A Magnesium is the most important of these co-factors. In fact, it is common for rising vitamin D levels to exacerbate an underlying magnesium deficiency. If one is having problems supplementing with vitamin D, a magnesium deficiency could be the reason why. |
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the "they just want you to buy stuff" argument for magnesium. It's literally dirt cheap, and it's available from everybody. As for food sources, it's difficult to get even the RDA that way unless you like pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, or almonds. (and even then it's not sure, as the mag content of the food depends on the mag content of the soil it was grown in, which is not supported by modern fertilizers.) That said I eat about a fistfull of all three each day. :) Some transdermal options for getting magnesium aren't cheap as far as up front costs, but it lasts a long time. I bought a 2 quart bottle of magnesium water (MgCl) for $60, but at the rate I'm using it should last about two years. You can also use epsom salt for baths to get mag through the skin, and that's really cheap, and available everywhere. |
But then Sem does not agree that most archeologists have been fed a myth from their textbooks and cannot see the actual facts of history in the dirt. Not meaning to revive the Barry Fells (?) controversy again. How the hell is everyone anyway? I'm gonna go the way of droopy soon I think and drop out for a longer while. |
Nothing is new. I was relieved when we just got our Christmas bonus yesterday, and had to pay two different bills. If this is not for Christmas bonus, I am screwed. I looks forward trying to be better next year, and going to seek a therapist, hopefully if I have enough money. |
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grape and blueberry. (*and they're not berries. They're a drupe, like peaches or cherries.) |
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How are you Wisper? |
I've determined that it's probably therapy time. But being as i have no money, I'm most likely going to have to wait a while. This is not good. |
What do you mean "This is not good"? |
thought I would post my holiday gift to you all....this is as good a place as any other... here goes: Note please this is coming from a bad buddhist.... ----- (c) D Smith 1999 "coming out of the darkness" An Effort to Comprehend The Twelve Days of Christmas D. L. Smith So, we have survived the gift selecting or making or buying frenzies, the gift wrapping, and the gift giving of the season…and rested and ate too much on the Child of Wonder Day (at least we hope so). Though this may be the busiest time of year for certain members of the culture, we ought to pause to reflect. First, Christmas Day. Perhaps you put to good use those skills you've learned over the past few months. Success? Failure? Even if Christmas has lost its meaning for you…this time that follows Christmas can provide a means to search for meaning and purpose. At least it used to in many cultures including those transplanted here in the Novus Ordum Secularum; does it for you? Take it a day at a time… Day 1 -- Boxing Day or St. Stephens' Day: What does service mean to me? How does the holiday provide an opportunity to serve others? How can I honor the male, masculine, or father within me? Honor the fathers (?) Day 2 -- Mother's Day or St. John's Day How do I nurture myself, provide for and protect all of creation? How can I honor the female, feminine, or mother within me? Honor the mothers (?) Day 3 -- Holy Innocents Day, or Childremass What did I like about, enjoy, dislike, or miss in my childhood? How has my childhood affected me? Honor the child within, and all children (?) Day 4 -- Feast of Fools How do I allow myself to be human with all its frailties and strengths? Do I have an acceptable way to let off steam, ventilate my anger, etc.? What prevents me from letting go and having some fun? Honor my weaknesses as well as my strengths (?) Day 5 -- Boar's Head Celebration How do I honor the Creator when am I connected to seasonal cycles, the animal world? Am I present in this moment of time, or dwell on past, fret over future? Honor time, passage, present, the now, all cycles (?) Day 6 -- Hogmany or New Year's Eve Day What unfinished business do I have? How can I best prepare for change? What hindrance from the past must I let go of in order to move forward? Honor your abilities to analyze the past and let it go (?) Day 7 -- Kalends Survey your resources, give thanks, and see how best to use them. Celebrate and honor your skills, accomplishments. Honor the plant world that nourishes us (?) Day 8 -- Snow Day How am I an individual? Celebrate my individuality. Consider what brings renewal to you as an individual? Honor how you melt into the stream of things, belong to the whole while maintaining your individuality (?) Day 9 -- Evergreen Day What is lasting, stable, faithful in your life? In what ways are you are awake and watching? Honor the comfort and convenience in your life; know these are temporary. Day 10 -- St. Distaff's Day or Rock Day How is your work honoring to others? Is your work as fulfilling as it might be; how to make it so? Honor your occupation, and those toiling with you (?) Day 11 -- Eve of Epiphany, Festival of the Three Kings What are the gifts of and to your self this year? Identify your needs, wants, and resolve to do whatever it takes. Honor your real needs (?) Day 12 -- Epiphany, Twelfth Night What are your dreams, your hopes? What's stopping you from making them a reality? Honor and celebrate all of life within the tradition of your choosing (?) (Dec 1999 Draft above, meant to enlarge to be a solstice, 12 day, etc. a coming out of the darkness meditation and workbook, now in press 2010.) |
I like to hear something from a buddhist, It is like a comedian who give you some inspiration that lifts burden off from your back. |
Boxing day is the same as Black Friday in the usa. Mobbed sales. it's called boxing day because in old england the rich would box up their xmas dinner leftovers and unwanted gifts and give the boxes to the poor. ----- Thank you, dan. I'll keep that in mind Thank you for real :) |
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I've used this meditation for a number of years, finally put it down in writing in 99, and have used it with my clients who are suffering from post holiday blues, wrong gift for the wrong person for the wrong reason remorse, and didn't see so and so and/or get/got fucked this holiday (or didn't) this year depressions... as a way to put the events into perspective. I found the information in Caitlin Matthews work on the winter solstice, book by that title. Not a Cannuck, Pepper: born free and poor in Appalachia, educumated and escaped to the Great Midwaste in the late drug infested 60's in some last ditch geographic cure-futile efforts to sober up--and now live (sober)in a little old three storey four bathroom log cabin with granite countertops, hot tub, and swimming pool, with cat Doggie and wifey CJ, in the middle of the beautifully snowfilled Ozark woods. Where there is a full six inches of snow for this here whitey tidey christmas. Been a practicing buddhist in my Hanes since Vietnam collapsed into communism. But not a good one. |