|
| |
|
|
| |
The Waking
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I cannot go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree, but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
--Theodore Roethke
|
|
|
|
Joy's Updates - Straight from the Horse's Mouth.
|
|
| |
Sunday, December 14, 2003
We're Doomed!
It turns out that chemobrain has merit as a condition. Studies have shown that chemo decreases IQ and that people who have had it don't do math in their heads afterwards. For some reason, chemobrain is worse for women with breast cancer than with lymphoma. I've wondered just what side-effects chemo has and what it will do to us long-term.
Then on top of this, information is out now on the effects of mercury in tuna and how it causes brain damage. I've eaten tuna fish salad very often in my life and still do. I've also spent many years drinking Diet Cokes from aluminum cans. More brain damage and who-knows-what from aspartame and the can! Lymphoma is on the list of related diseases.
So here we are (as Charlie commented in our conversation last night on the phone) created to require food and water to live, and what we eat and drink kills us. We can't eat, drink, breathe, or anything else without risk. What do we do about it?
3:34:00 PM
|
|
| |
|
|
|
