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| Me around ’95 smoking cigars and chugging beer. Motorcycle driving, crazy-woman phase to come a little later. |
In 2000 I decided to change my life because of an extended
illness that I thought was going to kill me, inside I felt dead already. Before I knew anything about anything,
I had enough of my life and decided to get out of debt, move to the country, be healthy,
and grow vegetables. I had no idea how
to do that.
I started simple; reading homesteading books an old guy in
the neighborhood gave me and magazines like Countryside and Mother Earth News . Other books came as gifts just at the right
time, drizzled to me slowly in perfect sequence and with perfect timing. One of the most crucial books was “Miracle of Mindfulness” by Thich Nhat Hahn from my dear friend Lola, though
she and my friend Mary Anne loaned and gave me so many more over the
years. These books and magazines fired me up about the mind/
body connection and using diet for health.
An herbalist wrote in to Countryside, and I thought “THAT’s what I want
to be, an herbalist!” I also thought
about a massage therapist, acupuncturist or anything in the healing arts. But
again, I had no idea how I could possibly do that.
