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With the recent cold spell and subsequent snowfall, the universe once again gave me an opportunity to learn.

Like I often do, I turned the heater way down at the Café while I was at my parents for Thanksgiving this past weekend. Monday came and needless to say, it was quite cold inside the Café of Life. 3 days later, the heater is still running, trying to catch up and stave off the cold temps outside. Every now and then I give it a rest by turning it off and then crank it back up once again. Does this sound like life? Have you had occasions where you got a late start and have been playing catch up? What are you doing to keep your body/soul down? Don’t worry, with consistency comes achievements. The heater has now accomplished it’s goals - have you?

Constantly trying to catch up

Volume 3, Issue 6 2006

Let the Immune System Rule!

This is a copy of a response to an article in a local newspaper which I sent to the editor but was not published - it’s a good read and I thought you might want to check it out.

RE: Trick-or-treat, then get a shot

Sunday’s article about the Flu Vaccine is just another fear based campaign without a leg to stand on.

Last year, the U.S. CDC along with the Drug Companies they are in bed with saw data revealing that nearly 65% of people surveyed did not receive the flu shot in 2003—and in the so-called “risk groups” nearly 47% with chronic illnesses and 78% of children aged 6-23 months of age. The two conglomerates then hired a marketing firm to create a new advertising campaign. The program called “The Seven-Step Recipe for Generating Interest in, Click Here to Read the rest of the article

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This is an excerpt from my friend Stew Bittman, Chiropractor. He practices in Lake Tahoe. One note - Stew follows the writing style of B.J. Palmer (the developer of Chiropractic), who thot it was more appropriate to drop the “ugh” out of our language.

With the exception of the minor glitch of 10 inches of snow in my driveway on October 10^th, this has been an insanely long and gorgeous autumn in Lake Tahoe. Even after a few rainy and windy days of late, there are still some golden aspens here and there, which is highly unusual for November 8^th in these parts. Yesterday we even saw an aster still in bloom, actually looking pretty robust. That’s incredible. This fall fell directly on the heels of an equally (and unusually) long and gorgeous summer, and the aster brot back memories of the breathtaking fields of wildflowers we hiked thru well into September. All these beautiful gifts were at least partially attributable to the monstrously wet winter we had, which at one point manifested in 4 inches of water flowing down my driveway in a raging cascade toward my garage. This is yet another example of the universal truth that goes something like: “Nothing is all bad”. Tho I must admit that wildflowers and aspens were not on my mind as I was wading thru the bone-chilling torrent that day attempting flood control. And it probably wouldn’t have helped if you’d been there whistling refrains of “April Showers Bring May Flowers”. Anyway, and alas, the weatherman states with his usual unjustified confidence that winter is looming large, and whether or not I choose to buy into it, undoubtedly it won’t be too long before the snow blower once again earns its keep and justifies its rather humungous presence in my garage. Winter—I love it while it’s happening and yet there’s always a sense of dread upon thinking about its arrival. Interesting. There’s something about its severity, its length, its power, its ability to force one into inactivity and reflection that threaten my illusion of control, maybe. Or maybe this simply points to another universal truth: “Nothing is ever as bad as the way I think about it”. - Stew Bittman, Chiropractor