Before I get into it I have a couple announcements:
Joining the Village - 2 opportunities available!
I want to share the Village Acupuncture treatment rooms with 1 - 2 Health practitioners. Maybe you, or someone you know? Email me to ask about room rates and availability.
I am looking for 1-2 people who can do a weekly Laundry/Office cleaning shift in exchange for treatment. It would be weekly or bi weekly from now until end of the year. Wanna help out and get regular care in exchange? email me
Share in your networks I am hoping to start with folks in early September. Thanks!
Hi,
Thanks for being here and taking care of you!
If you wanna read a cute lil' story about my summer break and the best movie read on below. If you wanna skip to Late Summer info click here!
I want to tell you about one of the best movies of all time! I was recently at my dear friends home in the woods. It was a warm, but not too humid, evening with clear skies above as we were wrapping up dinner on the screened in porch (thank goddx, country bugs ain't kidding!). We had planned to watch "Hamnet" or "Sinners" and were tossing them back and forth considering "do we have the capacity for a big cry or are we up for a bit of gore?" when came the suggestion for what I soon learned is the best movie of all time - I call it "Dusk to night in the country".
We cleared the plates, I took the couch (guest privileges!) and my dear ones each settled into their chairs at the table. We went deeper in our catching up while watching the sky turn from post dinner dim to darksky starry night. Time exited stage left and the cosmos drew our attention into vast reality. We are on such an incredible, vibrant, marvellous big rock hurtling through space, where no time is present out beyond this creation of an idea of measurement between sunrise and sunset.
Day time view from the porch, with Stella (the country poodle) in max relax mode
What a gift it was to spend some days with family pals, watch the Earth in it's moment, and share it here with you. For real, I appreciate you, what you do here on Earth and that we have met in some way via health, healing and harmony.
Take a moment to look up and prioritize peace
As we head into Late Summer (Late Summer tips here) please take a moment to look up, look out and tend to your wonderful self. We can come into greater harmony, locally and globally. It takes mighty effort and each single little individual one of us can lean into peace. As more and more of us do, we tilt our world into Qi flow and touch inevitable harmony.
Clients are sometimes surprised I drink coffee. I may have a half-caf at times, or take a break completely to ramp it down, but I come back time and again!
I unabashedly LOVE coffee!
While I wouldn't say it is "the cure" as there is no one cure, I do think coffee offers us Heart opening bitter heat and can be clarifying for the mind with a serious "pick me up" bonus. Any food we ingest can be a medicine or a poison, like any medicine we take in can heal, harm or do nothing!
To wrap up this month's email I leave you with a short piece from my first course with Firefly Creative Writing.
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untitled by Lamia Gibson
Right now, being here I…
drink coffee post inhaling (with some chewing) a thick cut of sourdough toast, with a thick layer of sunflower seed butter and a thick dollop of low sugar berry jam.
Note the calorie counting, sigh😞
Note the textural, flavourful experience I go for when eating, ahhhh 😍.
Eating
Drinking
Mouthing
Maybe all we really wanna do is mouth. Get words out of mouth, put things in mouth, suck on something with mouth, pass through mouth the sweet, sour and salty. From food to flesh to the fire inside. We chew on food, and life, to live. Desiccating chunks and chomping on the bites that can’t be swallowed without teeth gnashing, saliva squirting and a bolus, at least partially, formed.
I look up bolus, confirm it is indeed the “soft, rounded mass of chewed food ready to be swallowed” and discover it is also “a single, relatively large and concentrated dose of a drug given quickly through a vein or other route to raise the level of the medicine in the body fast”
Food as medicine has never been clearer.
Thanks for reading! 🫣 🥰
I hope you have had moments to relax this summer, that you have access to a/c when needed and that the Late Summer season we are about to enter is one is which you prioritize a piece of peace in your schedule.
