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Regarding the Neti Pot

belen — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:03:41 GMT

Hello fellow sinus health enthusiasts, I'm writing to let any of you who were uneasy about the neti pot incident in 2006 know-- I've regularly been using a neti pot for over two weeks, and each of my ear drums are comfortably intact. For those who weren't present when that happened, please continue happily washing your cavities as usual. Love, Belen

my phone is deleting texts again

belen — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:53:05 GMT

So if you text me and I don't respond, please call me, or leave a message here. Getting my defective blackberry fixed is on hold til september!

I've heard this differently each time I've read it

belen — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:30:51 GMT

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth. Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same. And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost

I see it so clearly

belen — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:33:21 GMT

"I flit from perch to perch, in an ever-shrinking cage, the door of which is wide, wide open." - Gyula Illyes

Story time!

belen — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:22:29 GMT

'This is a South American, wild Indian story about heaven and hell. ... if you go to visit hell, you will see a room like this kitchen. There is a pot of delicious stew on the table, with the most delicate aroma you can imagine. All around, people sit, like us. Only they are dying of starvation. They are jibbering and jabbering, .... but they cannot get a bit of this wonderful stew G-d has made for them. Now, why is that?' 'Because they are choking? For all eternity?' Lou Ann asked. 'No,' he said. 'Good guess, but no. They are starving becasue they only have spoons with very long handles. As long as that.' He pointed to the mop, which I had forgotten to put away. 'With these ridiculous terrible spoons, the people in hell can reach into the pot but they cannot put the food into thier mouths. Oh, how hungry they are! Oh and how they swear and curse each other!" he said looking at Virgie. He was enjoying this. 'Now,' he went on,'you can go and visit heaven. What? You see a room just like the first one, the same table, the same pot of stew, the same spoons as long as a sponge mop. But these people are happy and fat." "Real fat, or do you mean well fed?' Lou Ann asked. 'Just well fed', he said. "Perfectly , magnificently, well-fed and very happy. Why do you think?" He pinched up chunk of pineapple in his chopsticks, neat as you please, and reached all the way across the table to offer it to Turtle. She took it like a newborn bird." - Estevan [exerpt from The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver] (sourced from my friend Laura)

Tribe Friends List Spring Cleaning

belen — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:10:56 GMT

Hi tribesmen and tribeswomen, I'm going through a deep cleaning and will be clearing out my tribe friends list. If we haven't had a good talk in a long while, I'm going to defriend you. If our paths cross again in the future and we are drawn to eachother, we can re-evaluate eachother then. If I've defriended you and you don't like my decision, please write me and let's go get some hot drinks together. All the best to you on your journey, Belen

Want some free stuff?

belen — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:58:01 GMT

Cuz I have some free stuff. Please take it if it'll be useful for you. Stuff: -Air Mattress (the kind that plugs in, the pump is part of the mattress) -New bottle of pretty decent lotion that is almost full (I switched to shea butter) -Tiny lava lamp, wax in lame condition but still a functioning light -Lamp of the desk clamping variety, stand in semi-busted condition -More stuff (also free) Come n get it in North Oakland!