Do You Have a Temper?

"You see, this is how I am,
I'm the kind of person who needs to say what he feels, and not just
...just keep everything bottled up inside,
and this is why I asked (to see you).
But why didn't you answer my letter?"
he interrupted himself naively.
-Thomas Mann
"Fallen" 1894

My dear friend, Linda Dunay, sent me an email on November 19, 2009 about these common foods that we tend to forget. The benefits from them are TOO GOOD to ignore. Add these foods back in to your LIFE (if you are not already doing so)!

These are best & more powerful when eaten raw:

CARROTS: A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye... And YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.

TOMATOES: A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. Al l of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.

GRAPES: Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.

WALNUTS: A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.

KIDNEY BEANS: Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.

CELERY: Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

AVOCADO: Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).

FIGS: Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.

SWEET POTATOES: Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.

OLIVES: Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries

FRUITS: Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

ONIONS: Onions look like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.

Twenty-five years ago today:

December 5, 1984,
Wednesday

This morning I received a call from my mom.
"Mike! MACY's just called and they want to change your training day to this Saturday from nine-thirty to five, so you better call them," Mom said with urgent tones.
And so, that makes it even better for me. I believe I will enjoy working there. I intend to make the 'best of it'.

Last night while speaking to Bob Umland I knew he was all "cocained out" and "drunk" after meeting some people from Carmel who bought about $17,000 worth of merchandise at Wilkes-Bashford. Bob explained, "They had a limo and we shared cocktails and I ended up partying with them."
"Really?"
"Yeah, those sort of things sometimes come with the job," Bob replied.
I thought quietly to myself, "I don't know about this fella. I tell ya!"

Bob telephoned me while at work today. When I returned his call I learned of a few more details of what happened last night.
"Why don't you come over tonight and watch DYNASTY with me?"
"I'll see what I can do," I answered, knowing full well that I did not feel like driving over there after work. He is too unpredictable.

I telephoned Bob at seven o'clock.
"I can't make it there tonight but you can come here to Alameda...if you want."
He fiddly-winked with the idea of coming to the East Bay but I wasn't quite sure if he would come or not.
"I'm going to go workout but I'll leave my recorder on," Bob said.
What was that supposed to mean? He has some nerve to say 'I'll leave my recorder on'. Shit! I don't enjoy talking to his recorder.

Bob telephoned again at 9:10pm, asking me if I still might come over to watch DYNASTY. "I just got home," he added.
"Well, I'll call you after the show is over," Bob announced when he realized my hesitation meant that I was not coming to visit.

To my surprise, Bob did call back after the DYNASTY episode. We ended up having one of our most interesting conversations ever.
Bob asked, "Do you have a temper?"
"No...I don't get mad. I just take it in stride...and wonder."

He loved the way I explained it and said, "You know, I like you even better!"
"Well, do you know that TV commercial about AIM toothpaste and how they say 'use AIM and AIM for the best'?"
"Yeah, I think so."
"Well, I use AIM because I AIM for 'Bob'. You really are my main focus right now. There was this one guy I was infatuated over who was actually Raymond Burr's nephew but that's history."
Bob felt a need to transfer a famous name and said, "I was dating one of Melvin Belli's daughters for a while."
That was a surprise revelation.

It was all rather sudden. I mentioned being off work on Saturdays. He cut our conversation short in a curt way and made a strange point by saying, "I don't like my boyfriend's being off on Saturdays! I've got to go because I'm making dinner."
Bob continued, "Listen, I'll call you tomorrow."

Now it is time for bed again. I cannot seem to stay awake even though I would like to see Joan Rivers on The Tonight Show.

Sleep, though, that's the one thing you can't begrudge yourself, the only thing that doesn't cost money: the hours when you throw your spent, wan, now gaunt, still-untouched body on the mattress, unconscious of this ongoing apocalypse for six or seven hours.
Stefan Zweig
"The Post-Office Girl"