Yoga is whisper for me as is: art, healing, animals, food, people and community. Whispering about something, but I can’t get a clear picture. Like I am looking through the camera lenses and I can’t get it to focus. I want to have a glimpse of what my life will look like in the future. I want to know that things will be better, wholesome, and beautiful. How can I take all these varied interests and push them into a mosaic that’s works. It is simple really, but also very difficult for me to achieve, I want o feel fulfilled, feel like my work is important. I also want some flexibility, a beautiful work environment, and I want diversity in what I do.

Something worth listening to is Mathew Sanford. Find more about it him here and also here.

Okay so to those that know me, they know I am a organic, wholeness eating, healthy life style preaching machine, (hopefully I am not that bad). Simply put though I was taught from my mother and her father daughter her, everything in moderation. My mom made everything from scratch including our daily bread. We never ate out (seriously I can count the number of time we ate out for dinner on my fingers during my childhood). I can remember having jellybeans at Easter and some candies at Christmas, but not much in between. And you know what I don’t remember having sugar cravings. I had cravings for my moms amazing throw everything in their muffins made out of flax, carrot, whole wheat and raisins. She was a great cook. She didn’t cook fancy food, but as far as simple and wholesome she had it down perfectly. I can remember only a few dinners that were not accompanied by veggies of some sort and a salad with a homemade balsamic vinaigrette dressing. I ate fruit or wholegrain crackers and natural cheese for snack. I never had soda (and its no surprise that I still don’t really have a taste for it). Before organic fads and eat this and don’t eat that, my mom had a lot of it right. She boat local milk and we often subscribed to the CSA from the local biodynamic farm that was at my school. It was pretty wonderful. In the Summer she canned her own peaches and we made plum jam from the plums on our tree. She always had fresh herbs and on and off we kept a small garden of our own.

Then I was introduced to the taste of fast food and its convince and started going every once in a while and I started eating more meat, add some medications into that and my system started going haywire and my normal healthy physic that was never skinny but not overweight started to gain. I tried to “diet” but never had the discipline. Spring forward eight plus years and I realized that something was really out of balance and I have been taking steps to change that. All of these small changes that I have been doing was slung into gear by listening to Jillian Michaels podcasts and then picking up her latest book Master you Metabolism. If you have ever wondered about diets, about your hormones, about why you can’t loose weight, about eating more balance foods etc…then this book is for you. Jillian isn’t the person you might expect to hear this from, but she had done a lot of good research she really knows what she is talking about, and I can only hope that her “celebrity” status will help the cause of eating a more natural and wholesome diet. The more good food we demand the more will be available. So if you have the moment go pick up her book, its a good read and a good resource too and it will either confirm for you that you are on the right track, or it may interest you into making some changes in your eating habits.

I am grateful my dog, love her, look at that great expression I caught her in. I am grateful for books. I walked right to this one the other day at the bookstore, and haven’t been able to put it down.