It has been eons since I blogged with any regularity. Please bear with me while I once again familiarize myself with all the bells and whistles, and please come back to visit. I'll do my best to provide content as regularly as this scattered mind will allow.
"Just as we commonly hear people say the doctor prescribed someone particular riding exercises or ice baths or walking without shoes, we should in the same way say that nature prescribed someone to be diseased or disabled or to suffer any kind of impairment. In the case of the doctor, prescribed means something ordered to help aid someone's healing. But in the case of nature, it means that what happens to each of us is ordered to help aid our destiny." ~ MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 5.8 How can this be exactly what I needed? Lovely, eh? About two and a half years ago in the middle of the night, I was awakened by terrible itching and burning. When I got to the mirror I saw a fiery red rash. There were also hives all over my body. I realized there was also swelling, which continued to get worse. Earlier that evening was, as it turns out, the last time I was able to eat mammal meat. In fact, it was the last time I ate anything at all that is made from mammal. No cheese, no