Dear Friends,
Bill 115, affecting my integrity, salary, sick-leave days
and pension, has also impoverished me intellectually. To keep within the "new" budget, I’ve stopped buying sophisticated, glossy magazines with well-written articles. Now,
I read leftover stale newspapers and free publications.
This weekend, my quest for brain stimuli led me to the tower
of old magazines I have built against my study wall. While I was flipping through the pages of Tonic magazine
that I had picked up last February from my organic butcher shop, where I shall
not be seen again for a very long time, I came across a very interesting ad,
BODYTALK - to heal your body with talk!
This morning, before my body had the chance to call on God,
with her habitual six o’clock Monday morning plea for retirement, I whispered lovingly,
Dear Head, I’m so sorry Body's vanity takes up so much of your time
and space. I shall be talking to her on regular basis now! Dear Head, while I
have your ears, please do not invite headaches by taking roads less travelled.
Listen carefully and do as told. Yes, conformity is boring, but it’s safe. Thus
- good for health! Dear Skin, I continued softly, stop pretending to be
sensitive. You are much thicker than you give yourself credit for. I know it,
you know it and unfortunately the government knows it, too! Stop itching, flaking
and giving into inflammation! You make Body uncomfortable. Dear Belly, stop fussing over what goes into you. Be happy,
there is food to take in, at all. It might be fattening, contaminated, hormone and
pesticide ridden, or grown in slavery, but it’s here. That should count for
something. And dear Body, one more thing; forgive me for calling you
ugly last night! You are not fat or flabby. The mirror made me say it. Now get up, and go to work - please. I know the coffee is not
from Starbucks, and lunch is leftover dinner. I also know it is dark and cold
outside. However, you have no choice, if you want to be fed and clothed, living
under my roof!
I love BODYTALK. It certainly has healing properties.
I feel insanely carefree – accepted and filed!
What have you accepted and filed today?
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