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Yoga for lymph system

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Did you know that the lymph system is as important for circulation as the respiratory system?  I sure didn’t.  The lymph glands in my neck have been swollen since 1995.  I had one amalgam placed in 1991, and the other seven that did me in, in 1994.  One year later, I began getting the monthly migraines.  I also was exposed to melted plastic when I worked in the office of a car parts manufacturer.  We were attached to the factory, and someone had a machine on that molded plastic parts.  I never got the full story of what happened, but the accident had to have been huge, as I smelled burnt plastic in the office.  My glands were swollen from then on.

So…I’ve noticed when I’m chelating, that the glands go down to normal size.  When I stop the round?  Back to swollen again.  This seems to be an issue for most of us with mercury poisoning.  The poor lymph system is supposed to carry out all the wastes, but it just gets overwhelmed.

I found this site explaining the lymph system and thought I’d pass it along.  Yoga is supposed to help the lymph system to cleanse itself–and jumping on a trampoline helps, too.

I also started a search on sea salt benefits.  I had purchased some of the pink salt that has not been chemically processed and wondered what benefits (or detriments) it possessed.

They make the case that table salt is sodium chloride and has been processed out the wazoo to remove all the additional minerals.  The companies then sell the minerals for $$.  The resulting sodium chloride is not recognized by the body and is sent to the…uh…waste bin…

The theory is that untreated salt is much better for us because the body recognizes it and utilizes it accordingly to keep the delicate balance for the heart and kidneys to function properly.  One site even claimed that it helps remove plaque from the gut.

Of course, one always has to take what is said with a critical eye.

I think there is something to it, however, because I took 1/4 tsp baking soda + 1/4 tsp pink salt in a glass of water–sipping it throughout the day.  I started craving the pink salt.  Interesting.

I listen to my body–when I was a vegetarian, I was craving meat…my body understood what it needed, and even though I hated going back to eating meat, it saved my life.   So when it craves something, I pay attention, keeping in mind that craving something could also mean I am allergic to it.

Silkwood

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Karen Silkwood died on this day nearly forty years ago.  Her death was ruled an accident, but there was controversy surrounding her.  I didn’t want to let this day go by without putting her story out there.  Her story highlighted another aspect of the nuclear industry–manufacturing.  As always, when there is a profit to be made, corners are cut to obtain the biggest profit.

Karen was asking questions and that is never a popular with manufacturers who cut corners on safety.

I hope she is at peace.

War on the poor

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I was watching People’s Court with Judge Marilyn Milian this afternoon.

There are times when I don’t agree with her conclusions–sometimes she seems to make too quick a judgment without allowing the plaintiff and/or defendant to put their stories out there.

But nothing has been so outrageous as what I witnessed today–the plaintiff was a woman whom had pawned jewelry at a pawn shop and when she went to pick up the jewelry before the date due, she was told it was stolen.  The owner told her that she was SOL because of the robbery.  What she didn’t come out and say was that it was an employee who robbed the shop.

The judge asks the plaintiff how much she pawned the jewelry for?  $150.  What was the original value of the jewelry?  $5,000.

The judge was incredulous.  She says there is nothing that would make her pawn her engagement ring and other jewelry….she then waited for the plaintiff to give her an answer.  All she would say was that she needed the money.

The judge wasn’t satisfied with that, however, and kept coming back to why she had pawned it–badgering the plaintiff why she would pawn the jewelry for such a low amount??  The woman had stated before that she had four kids.  After being badgered by the judge, she stated that her husband was out of work.

The judge continued and asked if it was for food or what?  The insinuation was that this woman was using the money for…..wait for it….cigarettes, booze, or drugs…because, you know, that’s all poor people do—drink and smoke and do drugs./snark

The woman was not disheveled.  She was dressed nicely, and well-groomed (which isn’t easy, by the way, when you’re poor).  But the judge just wouldn’t let it go.

She was the victim here on so many levels, and the judge was badgering her and stating that NOTHING would ever make her sell her engagement ring, no matter how bad the circumstances.   She was blaming the victim for being robbed….and the undercurrent of being poor.

The judge obviously has never been desperate.  The woman had four kids to feed.  She probably needed basics like school supplies, toilet paper, soap, shampoo, trash bags, detergent, and on…that the wealthy never worry about.    Food stamps does not cover everything a family needs to eat in a month’s time…even less now that the extra has been taken away.  It certainly doesn’t cover the necessities.  The woman stated that she absolutely needed it for necessities or would not have pawned it.  The judge was asking if her husband knew about it, and she said it needed to be done.  The judge was clearly not “getting it” that people ARE THAT DESPERATE in these times!

The judge should have been giving the pawn shop owner the third degree about why she paid so little for such valuable jewelry….why she was allowed to take such an advantage over the poor?

The pawn shop also had a policy of not paying for the merchandise in case of fire, robbery, and a list of about everything that could go wrong.  In addition, they stated they would never pay for more than double the amount of the pawn….in this case, $300.

The poor woman was robbed twice–she was robbed of her jewelry, and the pawn shop robbed her of not paying for the value of the jewelry.

Usually, the judge is all over people who don’t have their ducks in a row–this woman had receipts showing the value of the jewelry, she had come to the pawn shop in time to redeem her jewelry before it went to the floor, so I’m at a loss to explain the judge’s treatment of her….other than the contempt of the poor runs deep.  I never really realized how much contempt this country has for the poor until I was one.

A laugh for Sunday

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Diane Ravitch posted a link to this hilarious video of cats overtaking dogs’ beds.  I was laughing so hard I had tears streaming down my face.  The dogs dragging the cats all over was priceless.

I loved that the dogs tried non-violent means as a solution.  Leave to the humans to encourage them to fight….<sigh>

Animals have more sense than the humans…

Why not get the cats a bed like the dogs?  Or, as one portion showed, a bed big enough for both of them to share?

Oh, beautiful, for spacious skies…

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I saw recently where James Taylor was supposed to sing the Star Spangled Banner, and started singing “America, the Beautiful”…God Bless him.  I want to put  a vote in for America, the Beautiful for our national anthem.  The Star Spangled Banner sings of war and bombs but America the Beautiful sings of the beauty of our country, the abundance, and the brotherhood (as yet to be realized, but a worthy goal).

A beautiful, crisp morning as the sun rises….now moved across the horizon for the winter sleep…

I saw six deer this morning.  Sometimes they will stop and just observe me, but mostly they just run off, with white tails bobbing up…it never ceases to amaze me how they can be standing still in front of a four foot tall fence and leap over it with such athletic grace.    They like apples, by the way.  A momma deer and baby were seen nibbling apples one morning while they hung from the tree.  You’ll see a half-eaten apple on the ground and know that it was lunch for a deer.

I went out the other morning, and the birds were singing as if it were a Spring day.  It caught me off guard….this is Fall, right…? :p

There were cardinals singing, Blue Jays sounding the warning, and another bird I couldn’t identify singing its little heart out.  Funny.

I’ve seen a bird that is mostly grayish black that at first I thought was a junco, but it’s tail looked like a sparrow’s and it was too big to be a junco.

The hummingbirds have long since sought warmer climates.  I miss their antics.  They spend more energy fighting over the food, when there is plenty there, rather than conserving the energy they used fighting so they wouldn’t need so much food….I know there is a lesson for mankind in there, somewhere….

You remember the hornet’s nest I mentioned?  Something happened to it–we had about three days of rain (no chemtrails to interfere), and then we had really windy days….so it may have been the combination that caused the nest to lose its outer wrap (for want of a better word).  It literally had torn off the wrap down to the honeycomb-like inner chambers.  I guess birds could have gotten to it, too, but I’ve never seen that. Not that I’ve seen that many hornets’ nest….in my youth, when I lived around the woods, but not since moving to the city.

Here’s an informative blog on hornet’s nests.  I learned something today–I saw the honeycombs of the torn hornet’s nest but I did not realize they actually made honey! It makes perfect sense, though, because they need something for the pupae. However, I wanted to double check this, and another site said they did not make honey.

Continuing the search, I found this:

I also learned that the Maya believe hornets/wasps learn the hut owner’s scent and leave them alone….but may go after visitors.  Interesting.  Hornets generally do leave people alone….unless they mess with them.  There was one story of my childhood where one of the neighborhood kids thought it would be funny to poke a hornet’s nest.  Um-hmm….you can guess what happened…hornets mad as hell swarmed him.  They had to get a hose to get them off.  Yep, he never did that again…

I found this interesting blog on hornet nest destruction.  Apparently, bears will tackle anything.  This site is pretty interesting with discussions on biodiversity.  Someone posted a video on biodiversity but it advocates eco-tourism, and setting aside small tracts of land for preservation.  I think both of these ideas send the wrong message.  Tourism is tourism and the more people that trample the ground, disturbing the wildlife, the more stress they bring to resources and the life forms there–not to mention more pollution by using motorized vehicles.  I shake my head at folks who drive up in SUV’s to the parks….the irony seems lost on them on the damage their vehicles cause by consuming gas and polluting with exhaust, which are destroying the nature that they seek.

And the setting aside tracts of land is a noble idea–but in my view, it absolves the rest of the occupants of the land their responsibility to take care of the land they’re on.  In other words, it’s like they’re saying “we have this land over here that is being preserved, therefore, you can pollute the hell out of the other land that isn’t in the preserve.”   It’s still missing the HUGE point that we cannot separate the land by lines….as much as we have been brainwashed into thinking that it is possible to do just that.

Water runoff polluted with pesticides, herbicides, genetically modified forms, mercury, etc., will migrate from the unprotected land to the protected land.  Toxic air will flow over the protected land.   There is no way to keep a tract of land pristine while the land surrounding it is poisoned.  Just like we see with the nuclear accident in Japan–what happens in one area affects another that has nothing to do with it.  We have to see that everything we do affects another–to take care.

Another link someone posted is something near and dear to my heart–natural water filtration a la natural swimming pools.  Pretty cool, eh?  Last one in is a rotten egg! 🙂

Also, there is a thread on endangered invertebrates. Interesting read.

Have a great Sunday. 🙂

75th Anniversary of Kristallnacht

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Germans observed the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht (night of broken glass) when the assault against the Jews began in earnest.

It’s hard to watch the video of it.  The pure hatred of the dark ones sends chills down my spine.

(kind of like the war on the poor, children (public ed.), and the elderly (Social Security) and the overreach of the NSA in the U.S. now, eh?)

Are you optimistic ’bout way things are going… **edited

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Seriously??  They’re charging fees to the homeless for shelter….unbelievable….meanwhile, Canadians using food banks are at record highs…

(blog title is reference to the song “Dialogue, Parts 1 and 2 by Chicago)

**edited because no matter how many times I’ve listened to the song…somehow still messed up the lyrics….<sigh>