Your body is damn awesome.

Phone blogging is a new and curious invention. Yes, I can blog from my smartphone, but should I? Well, my computer is down and it's Wednesday, so I'm going to.

Health is a loaded subject in America. Put simply, too many people have warped beliefs on what it means to be healthy. We spend the majority of our time indoors, sitting down, and trying to make the worst foods for our lethargic lifestyles better through chemical substitution. We then berate ourselves for not looking like athletes, despite the fact that athletes look like athletes because they are constantly being athletic. After all that, we wonder why we don't feel good.

Contrast that to our idealized vacation. Time outside, walks on the beach, trying the full gamut of local cuisine. We plan to go somewhere new and different to do these basic things. Eating. Walking. Breathing. Instinctively we know what's good for us, but we are very quick to deny it at home. For some reason, we believe that cramming all of our healthy activity into a couple of weeks a year is the way to make the other 50 weeks go peachy keen.

Somewhere along the line we've lost the pleasure of being. A wise man once said to look at the birds and the flowers. They don't do office work, they don't build monuments, but their happiness is just to be in the world they live in. I'm paraphrasing, but it's an apt observation. We, as homo sapiens, entered this universe as simple beings. We find food, we eat, we talk, we sleep. Sometimes we draw pictures or tell stories or sing and dance. Yes, as we've grown in numbers we've had to adapt, but adaptation doesn't mean turning our backs on the way we work.

Move. Dance. Run. Play.

Eat. Cook. Garden. Harvest.

Breathe. Meditate. Laugh. Sing. Talk.

Take two, and call me in the morning.

I'm still here,

LT