Yeah it is true….
Ray had nothing to say.
In case you didn’t know, oldmanskinandbones.com is ‘Ray’… and for the last few weeks I have had very little to say…
At least here on the blog site …
It was a combination of several things…
#1. the annual ‘blues’ that follow the holiday seasons, and taking down all those decorations … everything is just so boring after that…
#2. I do have a part time job and there were the two weeks of required starting the day on the job at 4am. When I arrived at home I did nothing except eat till I was about to ‘pop’, and then sleep till bedtime (which seemed to be about 6:30pm each day), then I would, ‘get up, and then go to bed…
#3. While changing the thermostat and radiator fluids in the pick up truck as the coldest cold front since the ICE AGE blew through, I ‘tweaked’ my lower back and couldn’t stand straight for about 10 days
#4. I seemed to have contracted a case of the ‘CRUD’. Even though I had been consuming about two pounds of frozen blueberries a day since everyone outside my home was falling to the ‘flu’, I ‘survived’ with the blueberries and some old fashioned cures …. (but that is another blog, for another day)
#5. Today is the first day I have been inspired to write anything. I literally had nothing to say.
While Betty and I discussed that truth this morning, she had a rather long and healthy laugh to the fact that I had nothing to say.
She stated, between wiping tears of laughter, that finally after 20 plus years of knowing me, I finally ran out of things to say.
I have one word for her this morning… ‘Smartass’.
(Whats new?)
While away from my adoring public here at the oldmanskinandbones.com community, I was contacted by a friend with whom I had lost contact for almost a year.
One of the very first things he ask was about my health … since the Heart Attack and our loss of contact.
In the next breath he wanted to know if I was still eating that same way I was when we last ‘saw’ each other.
I assured him my health was much better than when we last saw one another, yes, even MUCH better.
I explained why I had begun to ‘workout’ … and where the whole ‘oldmanskinandbones.com’ idea originated and where it had come so far.
As far as eating and that strange diet, I assured him it went well, in fact, VERY WELL!
I briefly touched on some major successes in the kitchen, and the biggest difference was the fact that I was eating a little less Green Leafy Vegetables than the amount he remembered in those days past.
I assured him the monumental demonstrations of the mastery of human flatulence had ‘past’ months ago, and that my body was comfortable with the amount of fiber I took in on a daily schedule.
(Yes, we worked in that ‘rimshot’ didn’t we!?)
And on that subject of ‘have you changed the way you eat…?’
I cannot see myself ever eating any animal product again.
There are pictures in my mind I still see, hear, and smell that will prevent me from ever putting animal/fish bodies in my mouth to consume for pleasure. ( I really try to avoid pictures like that…. )
It is a cruel thing we do as a race of humans.
The lie of humane farming/harvesting is as grand of a deception as dozens of others we want to turn our head to everyday.
I started this journey because of my health, and my pocket book.
It is criminal that it ‘costs’ so much to repair human bodies, when we could be maintaining the human bodies before they ‘break down’ from life style and poor diet choices.
Folks, I’ll just come right out and say it again…
‘WE are just livestock’.
We are kept, groomed, and maintained as a commodity ‘for profit’ for the big industry making money on our repairs, drugs, and businesses to exist for one purpose … make money off our status as ‘livestock’.
With every bite I take, I demonstrate my rejection of the control over my life, by those who feel the need to be my ‘caretaker’.
Defiance.
I’ll eat to that.
You want me to count calories? You want me to measure protein? You want me to FEAR CARBS?
My reply is, “…. No. I don’t THINK SO.”
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