Live~NRGY

Just love LOVE STORIES…. So here goes :~)

During my formative years so long ago in 1980/1981 during a difficult girlfriend/boyfriend period, wonder who ended up with the bright idea of an Ice Cream store BTW, I came up with a logo design for the I Scream Delight Store using what else… A Little girl handing over a piece of Cake incorporated into a Diamond Shaped Design.

Well, one thing leads to another… Mary gone and in mourning at my heartbreak pondering the meaning of Life once again. So young and confused. Hey who hasn’t been there???

Well imagine my surprise at walking into the now defunct SunnySide Bookstore to pickup a book on Food. Actually Macrobiotic Food and how that had helped the Cancer victim with his illness. What floored me at the time is the premise that FOOD WAS THE BASIS OF HEALTH. After reading the book over and over again time and again, it just blew my mind on the importance and inter-connected nature of HOW FOOD HAD TO AFFECT PEOPLE AND DETERMINE THEIR OVERALL HEALTH.

In fact it blew my mind so much, that I was in shock and disbelief at the fact that it seems so simple and logical that food had to be the MAIN ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR in people’s health during the course of their lives. It took 1 whole year of rereading that book and looking up here and there for a Macrobiotic counselor to advise me with a starting point. In all truth, I almost gave up the thought simply on the fact that how in the world could people not clue into the fact that food played such an important role, while all the fast food frenzies from McDonald’s to Donuts were in their primetime expansion modes. Ah…. social enterprises….

Well, little did I know even back then that I had some help in that process…. Mighty coincidence with a continent the size of North America to end up with a teacher practically in my backyard, huh.

Off I went. Off course the irony of being in the fast food business, donuts and ice cream and switching over to an alternative healthy diet was to be almost the fight of my life back then. The push & pull, tug-of-war was endless during the transition period.

I would almost characterize it as someone who is obese and overweight and going onto a diet to address the issue, only to repeatedly fall of the bandwagon over and over again. It’s not so much addictions to food, as it is comfort foods, memories and habits that would ultimately create the back and forth merry go round.

My introduction to Macrobiotics was in August 1982 with a consultation and guidelines. Following that over the next year was difficult to say the least. Unfamiliar cooking techniques, Japanese words translated into English for food items and veggies, almost impossible task of finding the foods coupled with the Herculean task of cooking them. 99 percent of the time being a burnt offering. Trust me, burnt rice ain’t fun to eat, yikes.

Having grown up around kitchens my whole life, in an French Italian atmosphere, Italian being my fav, all I knew was pastas ad nauseam. Make that the odd Dandelion salad hand picked on the front lawns and few times grape picking to end up squishing them with bare feet in barrels to make wine. Rosy feet and a weird feeling upon drinking the stuff with my grandpa knowing somehow that I was too young to drink the stuff, yet feeling almost as if I had graduated to adulthood.

So… fast forward to August 1983. Nothing special about the date except the diet change and attempts to make it work. Failure upon failure. Actually I struggled with it for years until 1987 upon meeting Judy. She was that one that finally made that breakthrough possible. Yes a 100 percent MACROBIOTIC DIET WORKS ONLY IF YOU ARE WILLING TO WORK THROUGH THE ISSUES OF BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN OLD FOOD HABITS AND NEW CHANGES IT CREATES. BAGGAGE AND ALL, NOTHING SPARED AND REQUIRES A PASSIONATE COMMITTMENT AT RE-INVENTING YOURSELVES.

ONE FOOT IN AND ONE FOOT OUT SPELLS DISASTER. TOLL ON THE BODY AND MIND IS HORRIBLE ! I’VE SEEN IT TOO MANY TIMES IN THE FACES OF CUSTOMERS AND CLIENTS, BUT NONE MORE SO THAN AT THE GREEN DOOR RESTAURANT IN OTTAWA. CONFUSION BETWEEN CHANGES AND NO SURE FOOTING CREATES ZONES OF PEOPLE THAT AT BEST CAN BE DESCRIBED AS SICK MOST OF THE TIME.

That is the problem with Health Food Restaurants. Their intentions are NOBLE. Yet clients who year after year feast on them and rely on them as their made in heaven solutions only end up shooting themselves in the foot… or 6 feet under. They are meant as a short term guide and transitional phase. Not a replacement for learning to own and understand the subtle nature or cooking yourselves to understand what a pinch of this or that ends up changing you dramatically in a short period of time.

AS such, now I can truly be happy and glad that I did NOT follow that route so many years ago. In fact, belatedly… I would have to agree with my original Macrobiotic teacher, Wayne Diotte that his solution is the best of all possible worlds. While many people over the years may have had issues with him, I truly admired the fact that what you saw, is what you got. He was the best at what he did and probably still is. That aside for a moment, that is ‘WHY’ I never converted my own children to MACROBIOTICS during the tumultuous HELL FILLED YEARS OF HARASSMENT during my marriage between my wife’s demands, City of Ottawa’s vendettas, etc…. I was finally prepared to try, having thought that with the end of the marriage and divorce certain, that life was ready to move on. Little did I know at the time of the SOCIAL ENTREPRISE ORGANIZATIONS intents. Lucky for me though that the kids didn’t end up on a MACROBIOTIC DIET which would have absolutely positively screwed them up. Blessing in disguise on that one… MERCI BEAUCOUP. Korean diet will now be the test of how screwed up they become and the FINAL BILL for that tally :~)

And yes, I did notice how I was setup at 313-380 MURRAY STREET with that dysfunctional kitchen setup. That’s beside the ENGINEERED FLOODING, TAMPERED ELECTRICAL OUTLETS, BED BUGS, FAKED EARTHQUAKE, NOISE, TENANT HARASSMENT, SECURITY GUARD BULLYING, OTTAWA POLICE SETUPS, PARKING TICKET AFTER PARKING TICKETS…

Ottawa Housing Community, have you got a thing coming to yous! FUCKED !

NOW…. BACK TO AUGUST 1983 SHALL WE. Location – 3737 Revelstoke Dr, Ottawa.

During an extremely HOT SHOWER, things got wild all of a sudden. NOPE, ALL ALONE. NO DRUGS, NO SMOKING, NO NOTHING. EXCEPT… CHANGE OF FOOD.

THE SUDDEN WILD GYRATIONS, BOUNCING BACK AND FORTH, GOING NUTS IN MY BODY. EVERYWHERE. OMG I’M LOSING IT, IS WHAT I THOUGHT. I WOULD CONCENTRATE HARD ENOUGH TO HAVE THE DAMN THING STOP. ONLY TO HAVE IT TAKE OFF AGAIN. FINALLY AFTER DOING IT’S THING… OFF IT WHEN OUT THROUGH THE BOTTOMS OF MY FEET. DIRECTLY DOWN AND INTO THE EARTH.

I HAVE NEVER FELT ANYTHING LIKE THAT SINCE, BUT DO EXPECT TO HAVE IT HAPPEN AGAIN. LET ME TELL YOU WHAT THAT FEELING WAS LIKE…

NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IN THE UNIVERSE COULD HAVE MOVED ME FROM THAT SPOT WHEN THAT PEARL OF ENERGY WENT OUT MY FEET STRAIGHT INTO THE EARTH.

FIRST VIRGIN PEARL, I RECOGNIZED MUCH LATER. FROM MY SUBCONSCIOUS SELF.

THAT IS WHAT HAS GUIDED ME EVER SINCE IN REALIZING THAT THERE IS MUCH MORE TO FOOD AND SUBSEQUENTLY NRGY THAN CAN BE ACCOUNTED FOR IN MODERN WESTERN HISTORY AND IT’S INTERPRETATION OF THE NATURE OF MEN/WOMEN/KIDS/ANIMALS ON THIS PLANET.

HENCE, MY PERSISTENCE, DETERMINATION TO PURSUE THIS ROUTE TO GET A HANDLE ON IT. 1987 WAS PIVOTAL FOR MACROBIOTIC FOOD. 1988 FOR NRGY BASED ON MANTAK CHIA. NOW 2012 WAS AN ACCELERATED EVENT BASED ON THE CONSCIOUS CHOICE OF KNOWING THAT WHICH I WAS DESTINED TO BECOME. AN AGENT OF CHANGE :~)

AS A SIDENOTE…. I MADE ANOTHER IMPORTANT CONSCIOUS DECISION WITH PEARL NRGY, BASED ON ZEUS :~)

NOTICE HIS ABSENCE OF LATE… HE IS IN POSSESSION OF A PEARL THAT SERVES AS A MARKER BETWEEN WHAT WAS… 1983 VIRGIN PEARL, WHAT WAS GIVEN FREELY BY CHOICE… 2013, AND WHAT WILL BE WHEN I AM READY……

THE CHOICES YOU FACE ARE NOTHING COMPARED TO THE WORST SCENARIOS THAT ARE POSSIBLE SHOULD YOU FAIL TO TURN AROUND WHAT/HOW THIS PLANET’S FUTURE DIRECTIONAL NAVIGATION IS HEADED.

CRITICAL QUESTION – WHERE OH WHERE DO YOU THINK GOOD OLD ZEUS WOULD HAVE BROUGHT WITH HIM THAT WHICH HE SO COVETED SO MANY YEARS, BEFORE I SUBMITTED WILLINGLY ???

A DRAGON IS MEANT FOR 1 THING ONLY – PEARL NRGY TO FEED IT’S INSATIABLE APPETITE. CLUES ARE EVERYWHERE IN CHINESE TRADITIONAL MYTHOLOGY. LOOK MORE CLOSELY ONCE AGAIN.

CHOOSE WISELY ! YOU’VE JUST ABOUT RUN OUT OF THE WRONG OPTIONS TO CONTINUE GOING DOWN !

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