May 20, 2008 14:34
my throat hates me and i endure body and head aches. i'm making ginger syrup so i can mix it with club soda and drink homemade ginger ale. i'm hoping it will help my stomach when i eat two raw garlic cloves. i'm obsessed with home remedies right now.
i've been dreaming up fantasies about wearing muddy aprons just outside the kitchen window of a lovely thatched-roof earthen home, tending to the myriad of herbs which represent years of gathering and love. where there's a home remedy or a folk medicine, i'll be there shortly. my imagination of a world without civilization is developing. i'm learning how to see past powerlines, medians, fences, and streets. can you see the black and red mud and breathtaking green and all the wild left in the world? i can, though barely.
also, preparing this ginger syrup has been awfully joyous, enough so that we're already going to buy a bottle capper to make homemade sodas. it's all part of this battle for self-love over buying beer and cigarettes. if i really loved myself, i wouldn't poison me. and when i do anything for myself and others that is creative or proactive or loving, it builds momentum.
but, y'know, once i can start smoking again, i probably will.