vomiting blessings

on our perception of control

Do you have any ‘health nuts’ in your life?

You know, the people who drank (drink?) Inca instead of coffee?

They likely subscribed to the Nutrition Action Healthletter.

The likely try to serve you gross food grown by well intentioned farmers. Sure, it’s good for you and good for the earth, but my god, it’s undigestable.

My wife was one of these. We ordered hippie ‘food boxes’. We shopped at the local organic grocery store. We used paraben free shampoos, creams and soap. We brushed our teeth with Tom’s of Maine. We washed with magic soap that came in verbose bottles.

We were the poster children of a new, healthier way of being in the world. We were convinced and we convinced ourselves: Cancer and heart disease weren’t getting us. We worked out. We meditated. We practiced yoga. She ran triathlons and marathons. We did puzzles and read so our brains wouldn’t atrophy.

Essentially, if there was a Book of Right Answers when it came to health, we were up to date and following the latest edition.

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