Maybe She's Mental

Why do we take the time to get our children photographed, frame the pictures, and then hang them on the wall?  Well because we like to see our joy!  I suppose after a time you might stop actually looking at the pictures on your wall, but the reason you hung it up in the first place was because you felt some kind of connection to the image and knew that it would bring you some flavor of joy so you displayed it in FULL view. I am a picture nut and I realized that I didn't have ANY pictures of my children on my wall until this fall when they got their school pictures.  Now I certainly do and when I look at them I see their beloved faces all excited to be the subject of the image.  I see the darling outfit they chose; sometimes the favorite shirt, sometimes the fleeting trend.  Whatever it is that comes to mind, it's always joyful and makes me smile. Some of the best 'framer' pictures are ones where the child is not even close to smiling with a big cheesy grin... I h

I think I might have had my first negative funk today... not depression, not even close, but just a general sadness and for no real apparent reason.  I was excessively emotional and just couldn't fully remove myself from this mood.... although yoga did help a ton.  I still felt like I was heavy and a weight was on my chest. I left a little early from work to prepare for my evening with my kids which included BOTH Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts.  I wasn't sad around my kids or at the events... actually I had a great time at both!  I thought about it after the kids were in bed.... I had lost my negative funk somewhere in the evening taking care of them!  They brought me sanity tonight. This is something to note because many nights I have noticed that my sanity has been reduced when I go home. :)  Maybe/hopefully, this is a new trend!  I'll take it! Children, the new psycho-ceudical! :)

Ah... our relationship with food... this I have contemplated and studied for years.... unofficially of course.  I didn't take a formal course in dietetics because I saw what they served on hospital menus.  I didn't study to be an expert prepare-er of food, I just read different books, watched some documentaries, and signed up for some newsletters online to get the 'black market' scoop on nutrition. I thought food was the way to health.  And OH it's a very good start!  But I think there's much more to the state of being 'healthy' that has nothing to do with the food that goes into your mouth. Picture needed:   Really good omelette in Kauai! :) I listened to a talk given by a Native American woman in northern Wisconsin recently.  She talked about fasting.  The Native Americans use fasting to discover truths about their souls, destiny, true calling.  What do we do with food?  We do the opposite.  We fill our face with food when fear, sadness,