The Forest

The forest moves in grace and beauty,

patiently waiting her man's rebirth. 

Her man now sleeps, with heavy mood,

destroying all in his careless path.

The forest moves in grace and beauty. 

Heavy is her sigh, the graceful forest,

hoping not all is lost, forgotten by her man. 

She remembers how life once was,

earth and flesh, living as one. 

The forest sighs with grace and beauty. 

She sees her man taking, with greed,

  taking without cause, and not replacing.  

Forest ponders, what happened to her man,

to make him a thief of life.

The forest sees her man with grace and beauty. 

Sensing, she does, the lost numbers of her kind,

filled with remorse, but still waiting for her man. 

She well knows the poisoning of her man, 

how ill fit verses, choked out his true life. 

The forest waits with grace and beauty. 

She knows well, those ill fit verses, 

overheard, she did, the verse's sponsors. 

Verses they were, from foreign land, 

 where little grows, and much is sand.  

She waits for her man, with grace and beauty.

One day, she knows, her man will awaken,

and the ill fit verses, will fall away. 

Thoughts of reunion excite her, 

her man coming home to all.  

  The Gods too, are with her, waiting for man. 

Copyright @2014 Terry Unger  

A Warrior's Prayer

Living in this world, are we not warriors?  Just getting to work can be a struggle.  Do we not do battle daily with those things that stand in our way for a better life?  To provide for family and self?  To strike against those things that threaten personal identity?  Against those things that want to make life harder?  And are we not humbled, by that which forces our knees to bend?  When knee is bent against personal will, there is no shame in calling out for help.  It is human.  And it is Okay.  This may help. 

Prayer to AllFather

For all who need help, strength, and direction......

AllFather, I have wasted my time thinking about many things; this was not one of them. It came upon me and attacked me like a thief in the night; I was unprepared and it took me by surprise. But – I will not surrender. I will fight with every ounce of my being. I want to live the rest of my life well, even if my time is short, my days now numbered. All though I have been lax in what I should have done, in what I should have said, AllFather give me not just strength but also direction. If needed, point me to the mists where I can see my line, back to the beginning, as they call out to me to join them in the many Halls of Asgard, where the noble can live forever.

  Inspired by the movie, The 13^th Warrior  

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Butter and Steak

The Paleo Diet is, in my opinion and in the opinion of other folks, terrific.  It gives me extra energy, with the bonus of lower orchestral and lower triglycerides.  In the strictest adherence of the diet, it eliminates all grains (breads, etc), potatoes, dairy products, sugars, and vegetable oils.  It does not eliminate fresh fruits and vegetables.  It was a personal delight to read a major article printed in The Wall Street Journal.  

Within the pages of this noteworthy newspaper, The Wall Street Journal, the weekend edition, Saturday/Sunday, May 3 - 4 2014, in the review section, is an article titled, Fat Reconsidered......The dubious science behind the anti-fat crusade.  It features a cow on the page.  I will not give you the link.  If you are interested, you will google it.  It's a great piece.  Within it you will find.......

- How bad science and politics, coupled with ambition, has dictated how and what we eat for over 60 years. 

- Why any kind of vegetable oil is not good for you and why butter and even lard can be better.  

- Why grains (cereal grains) are not good for you. 

- How the facts of heart disease have been distorted.

-Why fat does not make you "fat" or diabetic; carbs do.  

- How Proctor and Gamble helped to create and fund The American Heart Association (AHA), and how this influenced the USDA.  

- How since the 1940's, it has been known that when vegetable oils are heated (like in fryers), they produce by-products that can lead to cirrhosis or the liver....and death.  

- Before the end of WWII, many health issues of today were rare.  

It's hard for me to say that bad science should be given a pass; it should not.  A person's general health and well being is essential to a long, prosperous, and productive life.  Over 60 years ago, a select few, prompted by what appeared to be righteous science, "fixed" what was truly not broken within our diet. I do not blame these people.  They believed that the science was correct.  Today we know better. Hence my advocacy of the Paleo Diet.  

Forget those oils, fire up the grill and prep the meat.  Eat those veggies and fruits.  And use those cereal grains to make beer; fermentation eliminates harmful microbes.

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