Natural Life Living in a Toxic World

First, allow me to say this: I am a self-proclaimed HIPPIE. A natural nut, a person who believes that everything that can be done, can be done SAFER and more healthy if it is done NATURALLY. God's method vs man's.

This goes for my medicine, my eating, and my pet care. This DEFINITELY goes for my "pest" care as well.
However, I get hesitant to open my mouth around other people. I try not to criticize their personal methods of these things and usually I am successful, unless it impacts me.

One of the things I have noticed, is a preponderance of people coming back at me with the reaction, "well, I and everyone I know has been doing X for decades (forever, as long as i can remember....etc) and no one I know has EVER been adversely effected!"

REALLY?!?!? NO one you know has CANCER? No one you know is on half a million prescription medications just to stay alive due to something? No one you know has been effected by clinical depression, autism, ADD, fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, diabetes???

It is almost as if people assume that if THEY are effected by the chemicals SOOO prevalent in our world, that there will be a NEW disease and it will have a NEON MARKER on it that says: "I WAS CAUSED BY A GMO" or "I gave you cancer from the pesticides you sprayed every year on your lawn".
GUESS WHAT: they DON'T!!!!

YOU may not think that all the toxins in your life have had any effect....but LOOK AROUND YOU!!!! They have on our ENTIRE human population!!!!

People are suffering and dying DAILY!!!  So, maybe you have been personally blessed not to have any current physical or psychological maladies (the brain IS an organ in the body, in SPITE of insurance companies that categorize differently). But how many of our population can say that???

Personally, I have made a wealth of changes in my behaviors, and I will be making more as it is possible. MY personal desire is to live as healthily as possible. I am currently only responsible for the care of myself and my companion, my service animal, Athena. For US, I choose a more natural way and I have been rewarded with blessings beyond compare.

I can only encourage and enlighten others about the blessings of being a "hippie" in a modern world... it feels good, very good, to my body. I take that as a SERIOUS sign from God that I am on the right track.

My Weapons, My Battles

The quieter I am online,
The more I write.

Write,
my hand
by which
I write.

My pen.

The tool of
my Art --
No trade for me.

I write
because
I love it.

Because the
Words
FIGHT
their own
way
out of me.

When I
Stifle them,
Do not allow
them
their own voice:
the demons
of depression
and despair
only grow louder
in my head.

The unwritten words
fester
and ROT
and eat
at my happiness
with
the acid
of their
discontentment.

Until depression
becomes dismay,
and tears fill
once happy
eyes

A smile
no more.
Face,
free of the
lines of laughter
and holes
called dimples;
become
a salt flat of flesh.

Be gone
young demons --

I have fought
MANY a fight
with older
and mightier
than thou!

My Pen
swift be
my sword --

If it
be not
quick enough --

mine fingers
shall soon
have a more
virulent weapon
against ye!

a keyboard
shall
soon arrive!

Swift be
the fingers
that shall
slay these
demons --

Like those
before them!

Depression -
Despair -
Demons of my Dreams -
Be gone from ME
I seek Divinity!!!!