Fueling your passions. Learning from hurt.

As I was reminded of how effortless eating healthfully has become, I was hit with the hurt of why it's become so easy for me. When you mourn the loss of both your parents by the age of 25, everyday still, years later... you FEEL the reminder of why it's so natural today. Even if you're one of the lucky ones, who doesn't know anyone effected by heart disease or cancer, you can still find compassion to mourn over the billions of fellow americans who have been overcome to the point of death by these food and lifestyle related ails. Allowing myself to fuel my hurt into a passionate expression of health and vitality has given me so many priceless lessons, and I now feel sunami strength motivation to be a voice and example of health in my big but little world.


I had this thought this morning, that I found inspiring enough to make me sit at my computer and get it out before my power walk.


Soil. Should be outside and not inside. Contains enough nutrients to sustain life. Pros and cons, just like everything else. But soil. Made up of so many particles it would make our heads spins, has the ability to make a dead seed spring into a sprout and then grow into a tree, that will long outlast as of us. (Respect paid) There are magnificent qualities in this everyday, contrite (and dirty) element. I'm simply mind blown! But, that's not really my point. My point is total human health, and my aim is clearly set on the bullseye of quality and lasting life. Soil, grows our food and if soil isn't intimately involved in what your putting into that beautiful body of yours, it should be reconsidered immediately. Here is my 2 cents, if God himself breathed life into this soil and made our people, human kind, then we should still be closely connected to this element. Sure, it depleted, its stripped of minerals; whatever, I get it. The excuses and arguments are endless of the quality soil our food is grown in the US, but give yourself a fighting chance and do the best to eat from this beautiful earth as you can possibly stand. If you keep fighting excuses to keep you going back to the twinkies and ding dongs, then let your heart break over the parentless children who will go to bed tonight without hearing an "I love you" from their parents. Find a reason to motivate yourself, you're offspring will thank you for it one day.


"The oak tree was once a little nut that stood it's ground."



Dad and daughter bucketlist trip before dad passed in the summer 2010 from cancer.