By Valerie on August 24, 2011
So, my latest health adventure is my adrenals seem to be coming back online – though in fits and starts. Mostly this means I get the adrenal rush of fight or flight response out of nowhere. An ohmyGodohmyGodohmyGod alert for no bloody reason which leaves me wound up beyond belief.
My acupuncturist has given me some homework to help alleviate this energy crashing at the gate of vitality or whatever he called it after sticking twenty needles in my ass. Continue reading »
Posted in brain snacks Tagged breathing, health, letting go, stillness
By Valerie on July 30, 2011
I was out to dinner with a fella a while back, he asked me a couple of very juicy questions:
Who are you?
What do you really want? Continue reading »
Posted in another 100 days, philosophizing Tagged philosphizing, questing, self discovery
By Valerie on July 27, 2011
The idea of being stuck is rooted in the belief where you are is different than where you should be.
The definition of stupid is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Being as I just last week posted something I wrote 2 years ago on taking risks and falling flat on my face, I’m an idiot. Continue reading »
Posted in another 100 days, philosophizing Tagged acceptance, CFS, chronic illness, failure, falling, frailty, gentle, letting go, slowing down
By Valerie on July 20, 2011
Brain Eno said something really mind blowing when he spoke here at the Jack Singer last winter – okay he actually said 3 hrs of mind blowing stuff, but the thing I dug so much I had to write down was his observation: sex, drugs, and religion have one thing in common – surrender. Surrender is a tough thing for us humans to do, and it takes firing off some major pleasure centres with sex or drugs to make it seem like a good idea.
The dangerous thing with religion, and maybe sex and drugs too, is what you surrender to. Continue reading »
Posted in another 100 days, philosophizing Tagged Brian Eno, Buddhism, drugs, piglet, powerlessness, religion, sex, surrender, virtue, willingness
By Valerie on July 16, 2011
This one’s for you mama….
My mom spent her working years as a nurse. A member of that noble-hearted profession of caregivers, nurturers, comforters of the ailing. My mother also has a rather warped sense of humour. To this day, if you ask her how my dad broke his toe (something that happened well over 30 years ago now), you’ll get such a fit of tear streaming breathless giggles you won’t ever really get the story, Continue reading »
Posted in another 100 days, philosophizing, utter bloody silliness Tagged family, humour, illness, injury, life, love, sympathy, utter bloody silliness
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