Did you ever see the customers in health – food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half – dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They’re dying, of course, but they look terrific. Bill Cosby
Dear Fellow Travelers:
I hope you take a moment to reread and reflect on the wisdom of what Bill Cosby is really saying. We can apply that not only to a health food/steakhouse scenario, but we can apply that to other things as well. What do we do in our lives in so many ways that we could term as “steakhouse living” versus “health-food living”?
Do we think and act on healthy thoughts that are packed with the proper blend of nutrients so that our minds and our spirits can be empowered to best handle and deal with the stresses and problems that the world presents? Or do we settle for the steak house prime cut charred over a grill loaded with grease and carcinogens incurred while cooking; and visiting the dessert bar a couple of times before we leave miserably and satisfyingly stuffed to the gills?
In today’s wireless world we have tremendous capacities to communicate. But what are we communicating? What are we actually saying? Are we putting material in our blogs, tweets, social networks, and a half zillion other places that are worth posting or consuming? Admittedly I can post with the worst offenders (and in looking back, sometimes I find that has occurred frequently); but if I do that consistently and constantly I am neither growing and increasing my wisdom and understanding, nor am I providing anything for others that will be beneficial to them.
In posting on issues of healthcare, my past history is literally pretty much an open book for those who would benefit by my experiences. However the casual reader is probably not interested in a lot of specific items for my particular disease or condition. Mine is one of 200 types of cancer; according to figures from the American Association for Cancer Research and the American Cancer Society there will be an estimated 577,000 deaths due to cancer in 2012; for my cancer type there will be approximately 13,000 deaths and only 60,000 or so diagnosed.
Because of that most of my conversations in health issues dealing with cancer will focus on the larger aspects versus the minute points of the one that I am most familiar with. So expect to hear from me on broader topics that can be applied (or ignored) by a much larger audience. Expect from my posts to be challenging or inspiring in some unusual way – to both the writer and reader (if there be any). For those who are appropriately inspired, there will be milk and a bowl of banana pudding on the back deck after dinner.
Warmest Wishes – Mike
