Apples + Fall...a winning combination!

A comfort food that's good for you, I'm in! Apple Cider Donuts. Just in time for fall!

Common sense. These days it seems everywhere we turn someone makes the comment that common sense is lacking in our society. That's a troubling thought. But I believe that is about to change. It happened last year when I read a book titled, Thyroid Healing: The truth behind Hashimoto's, Graves', insomnia, hypothyroidsim, thyroid nodules & Epstein-Barr by Anthony William, Medical Medium. There's just something about what he says and writes that makes sense. Right now, I'm reading his first book, Medical Medium, which he revised and expanded because of the covid pandemic.

Anthony helps us bridge the gap between our understanding of how our bodies work and how everything we eat, think and do affects this amazing machine we live in. He provides the tools to get healthy and stay healthy. In simple, easy to understand and follow language. Plain and simple.

I consider myself to have an open mind (most of the time), but I carry a healthy dose of skepticism as well. However, my life experiences have proven to me, time and time again, that anything is possible and there is so much we do not know or understand about this world, this universe, we live in.

I have tried many of Anthony's recipes which offer healthy alternatives to comfort foods (those foods we crave even when we know they are not good for our bodies). But Anthony flipped the script on these misunderstood gems and created easy recipes that not only taste wonderful but provide us with a healthy alternative: ice cream made from frozen bananas (OMG, where has this been all my life!), "Nacho Style" baked potatoes that were fulfilling and delicious (now that's flipping the script!), and a garlic cashew aloli which quickly became my favorite topping. Just to name a few.

I've reached the age where serious changes are happening within me, and I have no desire to lose any of the ground I enjoy standing on. If change is in the cards, then I'm dealing the cards and taking some control of the hand I am dealt.

There are sacrifices. Eggs, dairy, pork have to be completely eliminated if I want to heal my body.

Love is about making sacrifices, but it is so worth it.

It is time. I am learning to become my best advocate for my health.

If you missed the above link for the recipe, click here---> Recipe for Apple Cider Donuts.

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In time, will we ever learn...

 Back in the day, during my nights as a waitress at a local popular restaurant known then as The Red Shield, I learned about a book from a fellow waitress. So enchanted was she by the book, she spoke of it constantly and there was no mistaking the excitement in her voice. The book, Dear and Glorious Physician by Taylor Caldwell, tells the fictional account of the life of St. Luke.

In the many spirited conversations between myself and other book loving waitresses, one also mentioned that Taylor Caldwell's books were based on her own past lives. Having just finished reading Ruth Mongomery's own account of reincarnation, titled Here and Hereafter, my interest piqued. This all took place shortly after one of Taylor Caldwell's other books, Captains and the Kings, aired as a mini-series on television. I can hardly believe this was almost 50 years ago.

And at that time, I made a mental note to add Dear and Glorious Physician to my books to read list. I started reading it in 1978 but abandoned it when life took several devastating turns.

Many times during the last fifty years I have thought about that book, but the title got pushed further down the list as my interests expanded and evolved. It's been said everything happens in its own time and place, and oh, how true those words are. Earlier this month I picked up Dear and Glorious Physician and every now and then I want to admonish myself for not reading it sooner. I fully understand why LaRae spoke so highly of it when I recall the tingle in the air and how her face lit up when she did.

But the one thing that strikes me is how people--human nature--haven't changed thousands of years later. The parallels between then (biblical times) and today astound me! I can honestly visualize the characters in this book as living, breathing citizens, politicians, and world leaders today. So much of what Taylor wrote in these pages is mirrored every day in the here and now.

I am barely half-way through the novel, but I can't deny each time I come to a passage about the state of Rome, in the back of my mind I remember hearing about the great 'fall of Rome.' And I begin to wonder if the same will soon be true of the country I love. My America.

Monday Motivation 2/13/2023

Hello Monday!

February reminders…

Your time is too valuable for self-doubts and worries.

You are already and will always be loved.

It’s ok to do what’s best for you.

The only person you can’t afford to lose is you.

No worries, no hurry; you’ll get there step by step.