Nomad living

It's nice to live as a wanderer. I have found that I use things daily that I did not pack and that I packed things that I thought that I needed, but I do not. I am remembering that there is a difference between "need" and "want". I appreciate items which are light-weight and small.
Living "light" and lean feels good.
KY is scenic, clean and serene. The air and water are clean. Traffic is light. I like the wildlife. The people in Abilene ( they call themselves "The Big Friendly" ) were quite open and about the nicest anywhere, the people here are much shyer. And there is a big difference in culture. The performing arts here are rare, and in Abilene they were richer and superior in every way, even superior to Los Angeles and Hollywood. Abilene was a wonderfully sophisticated city with less accompanying wickedness.
One amazing thing: this town has a population of 32,000 and the corporate chain stores are here in full force. Almost all of the shops here are nation-wide chain stores. I have only found one local restaurant, "Dots", named after its fried grated potato balls. Their food was excellent and at least some was made in their kitchen, and was not just heated processed commercial food.
Except for "Dots" and "Peebles" (a department store) I have not so far seen even one local shop. There is a Rite-Aid, a Walgreens, the usual car parts chains, the usual fast-food chains, grocery chains, and of course, a WalMart Super Center open 24 hours. We have a Salvation Army and a Goodwill and many, many Christian churches, but none of any other faith. The name of the county is Christian County.
This town is also called "Hop Town" because people used to hop off here to buy liquor because it was legal here but not in surrounding counties.

Fresh unprocessed milk - against the law in KY

Raw milk sales in KY are illegal with one exception.
It seems I can buy fresh milk here only if I have a written prescription from a doctor and then only for goat milk.
So it is against the law to buy fresh cow milk here in the land of liberty and freedom.

Isn't this crazy?

Miracle: found address book; movie - "FRESH"

Be careful what you ask for, you may get it! I asked for the miracle of finding my old address book and this morning it turned up deep in the pocket of a briefcase. Thank you!!! It has been lost since last November, and its loss was a frustration for the past 9 months.
We are unpacking and at the same time planning a future move to Willow Grove, Pennslyvania sometime between October and December, 2009. Meanwhile, Kentucky seems nice. I have found a farmers' market open Wednesday and Saturday mornings. Now where is the fresh milk?
I look forward to viewing the movie "Fresh". I read about it on Ana Joanes (Huffington Post) and the link is www.freshthemovie.com/. Apparently "Fresh" will be the first in a series of movies on healthy food.
Michael Pollan, a wonderful food journalist and an author ("Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto", "The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World", and more) appears in the movie.
"Fresh" also features urban farmer Will Allen, a former pro-basketball player, and the founder of Growing Power, an organization which now grows and distributes healthy food in Milwaukee and Chicago. Mr. Allen recently received a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" of $500,000 for his work with healthy food.
Farmer Joel Salatin , owner of the beyond organic Polyface Farm, is in the movie and he has written six books, most recently "Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories From the Local Food Front".
One can buy the "Fresh" DVD for $20 and I may do that instead of searching for a screening. One can buy the movie and show it free at home to up to 20 people without red tape. If one wants to sell tickets, one can buy the movie and rights to sell tickets to a maximum of 50 people for a total of $50, and up to 100 people for a total of $100. I hope people do this, and spread the fresh word.

Vacating & Driving away; ETSY.COM

Phone is now cut off, we plan to get up tomorrow, donate the bed to the Salvation Army, and drive away.
Do you know about www.etsy.com/ ? It is the eBay for hand-made and crafts.
Many problems with address changes because my address book with a lifetime of passwords, serial numbers and the like was lost November, 2008. I have to contact people and tell them I lost my password, or customer number or ID and wait for them to verify and then follow up the next day or later. It is really a mess. Just when I think I have recovered, another lost information pops up and causes a problem. Today I tried to change my address on the state bar website, but my password is in my lost address book.
Not to mention I am cut off from some friends I have known since the 1950's and have no way of finding them. For example, Barbara Spivey, my friend from third grade through high school is now lost.
And I wanted to send Maria a birthday card May 22, but her phone and address is lost. I only have addresses for the "A"'s, those were the only ones I had time to copy before it was lost.
I am asking the Universe for the miracle of a found address book.

See "Nourished Magazine" for a collection health commentators in Australia.
See Rami Nagel for curing (not treating, curing) tooth decay.
See - adambetcher- ( on Twitter.com ) for many good health-topic links.

Abilene is a wonderful city - stable, sophisticated, helpful people, wonderful culture together with agriculture, farming, rodeos. They call themselves "The Big Friendly".

Skin & Guts,

We really only have one skin, or one gut. They are the same. Of course, the cells change as the skin changes at the lips, rectum, nostrils, eyes, ears, penis, vagina and goes inside the body from outside of the body. It is all one organ, the largest organ in the body.
Why do we care? Everything that touches the skin is absorbed into the body. More will be absorbed from an oily liquid than from a vinyl sofa, but at least a few molecules of anything we touch will get into our bloodstream. I even read a theory about prostate Cancer caused by sitting for many years on a plastic chair.
Read the labels on suntan lotion, make-up, deodorant, everything that will go on or in the body and they undoubtedly contain harmful chemicals and preservatives. Of course, the body can detoxify small amounts of toxins, but what if all your clothing is plastic, all your plates and napkins are plastic, all your furniture is plastic, everything you use or touch is plastic??? And it is proven that some plasticizers are carcinogens.
I prefer to make my own lotions, shampoos, toothpowder and the like. See Dr. Hulda Clark's book "The Cure for All Diseases" for some recipes. It is sold at www.newcenturypress.com/. I like her recipes because they are passed down for generations and use safe ingredients. See Dr. Mercola's site at www.mercola.com. One of his articles today discusses dandruff and shampoos and he cautions about shampoo chemicals absorbed into the scalp.
One of the most common problems are the types of toxic alcohols used in creams and lotions. I prefer to use triple-distilled vodka to make underarm deodorant and other grooming items. Vodka is ethyl alcohol (ethanol) and one probably cannot use enough as a cream, lotion, or deodorant to get drunk.
There are special large cells called "apocrine" glands under the arms and in the groin area. These soak up efficiently whatever cream, cologne or deodorant that is put there, so it is important to use pure products there, or better, make your own.
The transitional mucuous membranes (mouth, rectum, eyes, penis, vagina, nostrils) are especially absorptive and anything put there goes into the blood stream. Something put into the rectum is absorbed directly into the bloodstream and avoids the saliva enzymes, the stomach acids, the duodenal pancreatic enzymes, the liver. So if you put drugs or drinks or suppositories into your rectum, they will bypass normal digestion and go directly into the bloodstream. This is dangerous, and I read of some college men dying because they put too many martinis into the colon trying for a fast and cheap high.

Moving Update

Yesterday we saw "The Producers" at the great Paramount Theatre with its twinkling stars and slowly moving clouds on the ceiling. It was the best play I have ever seen, this troupe could do Broadway. The lead actor is a TV 5:00 p.m. news anchor. They were all as good as it gets. I am so impressed with all the talent in this town.
In the morning, we drove a chest of drawers, a box of plates, some dictionaries, some other books, a wire shelf and other things to the Salvation Army and donated them.
We also packed up maybe ten large and medium boxes of household items. We've been taking a box every other day to donate stuff since we were informed of the transfer.
Still some packing and planning left and we are very busy with this move.
Janice sent me the link to legal argument in the Anna Nicole Smith case which would be fascinating to hear, but I am just too extremely busy right now.

Concentrated poisons in foods...

Reading an article in the Spring, 2009, Volume 10, Number 1 , page 44 issue of "Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts" which is a magazine from the Weston A. Price Foundation.
The article discusses high fructose corn syrup - HFCS- in detail, which to me seems to be present in all packaged foods. And to make matters worse, it's usually the first or second or third ingredient on the label. At least they are putting HFCS on the label, GMO's and soy are not listed or are put under unrecognizable names. There are many tricks, called "creative food marketing" to trap us into ignorance.
And, of course, HFCS is a GMO (genetically modified) since the corn it is processed from is GMO.
I notice that GMO's are never identified and they are in most packaged foods but not listed on the label. Take cheese, for example. Rennet is an natural, healthy enzyme from the stomach of a nursing calf. If the label does not say "rennet" the cheese is likely made from E. coli bacteria or fungi which are genetically engineered to produce enzymes similar to natural rennet. Some raw plants (thistle) may be used, but are not, by the food makers. The only cheese I can find with rennet is European and a few mail-order artisan cheeses. I have stopped buying even Tillamook since 90 % of their cheese is not made from natural rennet, but from genetically modified fungi and bacteria. (See the Jeffrey M. Smith link at the bottom of this page to learn why GMO's are toxic.)
HFCS is a sweetener which is concentrated and cheap - the motive for the food manufacturers. It goes directly from the gut to the liver (fructose has a different metabolic pathway from glucose) and can cause cirrhosis and death just like in drunkards.
HFCS causes obesity. Prove it to yourself: cut out all drinks except water for a month and see if you lose any weight. (* You will.)
HFCS causes high blood pressure, high blood lipids, and depletes minerals.
HFCS is a source of toxic mercury in our foods.
Apparently Mother Nature meant for us to eat whole, sweet, tree-ripened fruits only in the short time they are in season. Sugar gluttony cannot be tolerated by the body year-round. Robbing a beehive in the late summer and eating that honey would be great, since our bodies have evolved to accomodate an occasional seasonal feast.
Another concentrated food poison is MSG which stimulates the "umame" taste buds. Delicious, meaty taste. Seaweed kelp contains fabulous nutrients and is a rich source of iodine and minerals and I try to eat a little with each meal. But MSG is way too concentrated (it is made from seaweed kelp) and MSG is so strong it could actually cause death if the dose were large enough.
Another concentrated toxin is carrageenan. It is concentrated from Irish moss seaweed or purple seaweed or red seaweed. The regular seaweed is a healthy nutrient, but when concentrated and used in food preparation it causes tiny holes in the intestines. This is because it is such a strong detergent that it melts tiny holes in the intestinal cell membranes. (Nonoxynol-9, a spermicide, is also a strong detergent that puts tiny holes into the cell membrane of a sperm and thus acts as birth control - the same mechanism of action as carageenan.) Read labels and you will see carrageenan in all products which can separate into oil and water, such as salad dressings, milk products, and in ice creams and in cheeses.
The food manufacturers use carrageenan liberally, it is cheap and its detergent action keeps the processed food materials together.
If you drink soy milk with carrageenan for several years you will probably be told you need surgery to cut out the top left part of your colon between the transverse colon and the descending colon. More and more people are getting this surgery.
And by the way, I avoid soy - see Dr. Kaayla Daniel's book "The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America's Favorite Health Food" and you may want to eliminate it as a food for humans, too. Check out www.wholesoystory.com/.
"Hydrolyzed vegetable protein" and other terms are used in creative marketing to sneak soy concentrates into food.

Human bodies are great at getting rid of small doses of poisons such as MSG and HFCS and stress and viruses and bacteria and the like. But when over-whelmed with concentrated poisons, the body will eventually succumb to obesity, diabetes, aging , cancer, heart attacks and the like. Yes, stress is a poison. Sweetener overdoses are maybe our main food poison.

Back to the WAPF article, I wish everyone could read it. It goes into detail and cites scientific proofs. It also explains why commercial agave nectar is also processed with GMO toxins (label will say "hydrolized inulin syrup"), meaning GMO used) and no good as a sweetener. A trick is to call agave "chicory syrup" - same thing. (Real chicory is dandelion root.) The original healthy agave syrup is made from yucca sap, but the store agave is made from the root - big difference.
Warning: Agave (yucca) is dangerous (because of its saponins) during pregnancy or nursing.
And of course, beets are now GMO's. So I'll stick to honey or raw dates or fresh fruit juice I squeeze myself or real maple syrup or real cane sugar.
It would be best for me to just avoid sugars completely, all carbohydrates are addictive, sugars and alcohol more than most.