When Nature Calls

Today, I tried the carrot juice I had made a couple of days ago.

Wow, did it taste.... terrible. It was really true what they said-carrot juice does tend to go rancid fast.

So, remembering my "do what's easiest" philosophy, instead of forcing myself to drink it because I thought it was good for me, I poured it all down the drain (which isn't actually wasting it either, since the city here has been telling us that our pipe system has been clogging up with all the grease we've been pouring down our sinks. So since carrot juice is beneficial for our own biological pipe systems, I figured it could only help the city's pipes too. "Put away the Drano and get carrot juice", that'd be my slogan lol Although I wouldn't be able to make much money off that, except to maybe sell the juicers to extract the juice from. But do you know, it takes about 2 bags of carrots to make one single glass of juice. No wonder carrot juice is so expensive in grocery stores.)

So I opted for the pomegranate/lime juice instead. Delicious!

I also had a caesar salad a friend of mine was nice enough to give me, and so I thought I'd eat that too. I even used the wedge of lemon that came with it, squeezing out the juice into my pomegranate mixture (because I knew the taste of sweet pomegranate would override the lemon juice, so it was worth doing.) It still tasted marvelous and my body would probably notice the bit of lemon juice even if my tastebuds didn't.

My mistake came when I avoided the rules of "food combining" (which actually should be termed "food separating," since combing food groups is exactly what you DON'T want to do). Even though I had talked a lot about how we create our own realities and sometimes certain things are so just because we believe them to be so, the rules of food separating seemed to still be applicable. Either that or the romaine lettuce I had eaten wasn't organic and had wilted leaves in it, which is a distinct possibility, seeing as it came from a restaurant. (No offense to restaurants, they do their very best to tend to the hundreds of customers they have each week and I'm sure it's hard to keep even organic lettuce tasting fresh.) So I started to feel sick-so sick that I thought I'd throw up (breaking my 2 year "vomit streak," as Seinfeld would say. Which is actually a "non vomiting streak," but I suppose it sounded better to say it the other way even if he didn't mean he vomited consistently for the past few years. "Merely language," as Russell Brand said in his Shame DVD.)

Anyway, so to override that, I took some triphala, which I hadn't yet taken today. And since my jar of chocolate syrup was kept right beside it, I took that, and decided to sit down for a while to savor it.

I did start feeling a little better, but not my much. Even after trying to think of some mantras.

So I decided to go outside into the backyard where there were trees, shrubs, plants and gardens.

It was amazing how much detail I could see now that I never seemed to see before. The daisies seemed brighter, more yellow, and I could see all the little yellow strands that made up the flower. The grass seemed greener and I could see all the little blades in their natural beauty just sitting in the garden. And it might have been my imagination, but I thought things seemed to flourish ever so slightly as I stared at them.

And then as I was gazing upon them, a bee buzzed loudly past my ear.

I nearly jumped sky high-it took me so much by surprise. I don't usually harm bees or kill them if I see them, I usually just keep a fair distance from them. I was stung by a bee only once, and I think it was by accident on the bees' part-the poor thing had been stuck in the hot trunk of a car for a 3 hour drive and when it was opened up and it flew out, the person I was with and I seemed to be blocking its path into the atmosphere, so it flew into my neck. (I do believe we all have electromagnetic fields that insects are naturally drawn to, and that's probably why when you see kids in Africa, they have flies crawling on their noses. In western society we tend to view that as a sign on uncleanliness, but the "reality" of it seems to be that it is really the natural ways insects responds to humans. Though I haven't yet figured out how to keep mosquitoes away-I would think that if you just expect them to "stay off you", that belief will go into your energy field and they will actually stay off you. I once had a friend who was so worried about parking under birds who had, shall we say, "busy constitutions," that she would park in spaces she was sure wouldn't cause them to mess her car up. And then she'd be surprised that when she came back to her car after a 2 hour shopping trip, she'd see white droplets all over her hood.)

So after a few moments went by and I had settled down, I thought "Don't worry about the bees, They are harmless and only attracted to your energy." (But thank goodness they weren't so attracted that they crawled on me, I would hate it.) But actually, after that I was never bothered again and I saw this one bee fluttering about the bright yellow daisies, doing it's job of collecting bee pollen. I then thought that there wasn't really too many flowers for them to choose from-there were just the daisies-and even those were considered "weeds" by most people and I'd seen certain relatives of mine spending hour upon hour pulling them out of the soil.

So then I thought "this garden needs more flowers." I have always liked purple flowers and pink flowers, so I figured I would go out and get some seeds. I do live in Canada, so who knows how long they will survive. But then again, nature seems to go on whether there is snow or not, rain or not. And it is summer here, and we had our first couple of days of rain this week. It was marvelous-I loved the rain and had been wishing it to rain ever since the hot weather last weekend.

So now I'm resolved to get some flower seeds. I might think intellectually that they would be hard to plant and I'd have to "tend to the soil" and dig with my fingers and all the rest, but something is telling me that maybe I can take an easier path than that-perhaps I can just throw the seeds over the balcony railing to the ground (sort of like throwing salt over my shoulders for good luck.) I am going on big picture thinking here-I have no idea if it will work or not. I just tend not to like gardening, even if I do genuinely want the bees to be happy.

Then another thought came to my mind-what if the bees get so happy from tending to more flowers that they produce a bee hive, and more bees flock to it so much that the neighbors will get disturbed? This, I have to say, is a bit of ET thinking-not Extra Terrestrial, but Entertainment Tonight thinking. That is, dramatizing events so they worry us to death and we shut down any inspirations we have.

So then I thought "Just plant some flowers. They'll look beautiful, improve the scenery, keep the bees busy so they're not buzzing past you, and the flowers will give off more oxygen so the backyard will smell better and make you healthier when you come to see it."

And then I thought "You know, I don't even really like honey. But I LOVE agave nectar. I even put some raw chocolate syrup (with raw cocoa beans and agave nectar) on my face to see what it did (and don't look at me that way, millions of people pay hundreds of dollars for salons to put smelly mud on their faces-doesn't chocolate syrup sound like a more delightful alternative?) And it TOTALLY made my skin feel nicer. So then I thought, wouldn't it be lovely, if I could get some agave fruit bushes growing, with cocoa beans growing right beside it, and the bees could make my own natural brand of chocolate syrup? Ahhh, what a lovely thought (though maybe not plausible considering how cold my climate gets in winter, but it sounds nice all the same. Even if it worked, I still would have to go out and extract it from the bees which might create a whole other problem...But it would be sooooooo worth it :D)

At the very least, I suppose I'll get a compost going, since it seems far more productive to throw away a used up lemon wedge into a natural pile of dirt rather than tossing it away in a garbage bag.

The interesting thing is, is that the picture on my computer screen is of a cute little bunch of purple and pink flowers. I remember putting it there when I had tried to use some other pictures in my visualization techniques (in the time I was still eating meat) and getting frustrated that they weren't manifesting. So in order to have a picture that was just pleasant to look at, I put the flower picture up. It was a complete fluke. It's been almost two weeks now that I've been more vegetarian, taking triphala and eating raw chocolate, and I'm actually considering putting flowers in my garden. I'm not sure the thought would have occurred to me if the picture had not been there. But lucky for the bees, it was :) Perhaps the bees communicate more with me than my conscious mind realizes (which can humorously be argued is another form of "mind control," which would only serve to tell me how intelligent these little bugs are. I'm sure they have their own advertising agents lol)