Hand Crafted
As far as theme weeks go, this one was a doozy, and it will certainly bear repeating on a regular basis, as it seems that intimacy is a core issue, perhaps the core issue as we’ll see a bit later, and it also seems to bring stuff up–out of the frying pan and into the fire perhaps, and yet up as in a synchronous feast!
The week began with the bottling of another hand crafted batch of kombucha, a fermented beverage I’ve been brewing every ten days for the past year and a half. A bit like a slightly vinegary green tea ginger ale is probably the best way I can describe it, although not so fizzy unless I’m really lucky.
Kombucha is full of probiotics like lactobacillus, one of the primary missing in action items from our contemporary diets, much more power packed in that way than yogurt, the catch all for these little digestively beneficial critters, and it’s fun to have something alive in the house in a science experiment kind of way!
I’ll write more about kombucha soon, and ill even post a how-to for those of you who like to do. And for those of you already a bit in the know about kombucha, yet lacking the requisite scobies to get the project going, I do have some babies available–zap me on the contact form and they are yours if you need them!
Hand Cut
On the hand crafted front it has also been a week of spinach and arugula straight from the garden. I’m overwhelmed actually. Amazing abundance this year, one benefit of all the rain we’ve been having. And not only lots of harvesting–lots of yumminess! This is literally the best spinach and arugula ever!
And hand cut! Does that add to the yumminess? Is there an intimacy/yumminess factor going on? Perhaps!
Hand picked
Further from home, via the radio and the internet, it was a week of synchronicities. I decide that it is Intimacy Week and then On Point runs an interview with Christina Nehring, author of “A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-First Century”, making the claim that contemporary love is a “poor and shrunken” thing.
On that same day I write a post about how Prevention of Disease and Promotion of Health are two completely different animals, and we’ll never be healthy or have a decent healthcare system until we switch our thinking around health, and then Mark Hyman, one of the few doctors I can roundly applaud for thinking out of the box, writes a piece for Huffington Post about 9 things we can do to solve the health care crisis in America–very worthwhile reading indeed.
Enlightened Intimacy
And finally, in the midst of all of this realization of just how core intimacy really is, Christina Sell, an Anusara Yogi living in Texas, uses a Jack Kornfield quote as a blog post header–a quote that just really blows this thing open:
Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
Yikes! Yeah! There we go! Talk about a sound bite!
And so that’s the kind of week it was. And the week coming? Sunday is Summer Solstice, longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, and Father’s Day to boot! As tough as it can be navigating the waters of love and the shores of authority, sailing through the straits of being a man and being yourself, fathers need all the help they can get! Give them your love, give them your gratitude, give them the gift of massage from someone who knows!
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