[100 days of 100 words] 98 and 99, at Omega

[kitchen_kink]

The woman behind the counter wonders if I’m staff, and I wonder if I should say I am, just to get a discount. But she’s such a sharp-looking older lady, and I love the henna she’s had done on her hand.

It’s such a fine line between the things I care about – sustainability, healing, healthy foods, the value of land, spirituality – and the things that just push it over the edge into silliness or self-righteousness. How many people decide not to be environmentalists because of eco-terrorists and PETA members? How many are turned away from paganism because of the fruitcakes?

It’s a love/hate thing, me and retreat centers. As soon as I ever arrive at such a place, on the one hand there’s the beautiful landscape, the healing energy of the land, the beautifully designed gardens and buildings. On the other hand there’s the New Age smugness that tends to permeate everything. At Harbin Hot Springs, over breakfast, a woman told me how she doesn’t put honey in her tea because the hot water kills the beneficial enzymes. Oh, how I longed for some bacon to eat in front of her. Does that make me a bad person? Oh good.

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[veek.livejournal.com]

*laughs* You have no idea how very much I needed this just now. Thank you. :)

[greendalek.livejournal.com]

*applauds wildly*

[bluepapercup]

Hahaha yes. Ahhh, California, the land of fruits and nuts.

[nightqueen13.livejournal.com]

quote: *At Harbin Hot Springs, over breakfast, a woman told me how she doesn’t put honey in her tea because the hot water kills the beneficial enzymes. Oh, how I longed for some bacon to eat in front of her. Does that make me a bad person?+

Hell, no! It just make you healthy and alive, at least to my humble opinion. You just dunno how much I hear you about all that kinda bullshit, especially during these days, in which I'm supposed to "humble myself and be agood gal, in order to get what I need to survive"... Oh, shit!