I stopped smoking, partially, because I said to myself, “I’ve had enough.” Isn’t that why you quit? I don’t know. I only know that either you say it to yourself or someone says it to you. That you’re quitting – well the word just doesn’t mean anything. It sounds like a verb. It should...
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Purgatory is on hold
I felt as if I could no longer resist the call waiting. But that’s just like purgatory. It’s a waiting game. It’s only the surroundings which make the game difficult. Otherwise anyone could wait anywhere with no problems. Even so, I won’t lose my cool knowing that I’m only biding my time now. There’s...
Nic tweets
…it’s hardly important if it’s Nic you’re running from or something else. These things chase you. http://bit.ly/gJyUFm is the zen of withdrawal pretzeled with the Odyssey.Pretzels with mustard are good.Try one instead.#smokeout Wrapped in a few words like an egg roll homilies bring to mind the simple things in life.http://bit.ly/9hs5Mt …support your dreams. Any...
Origins and Endings Part II
“Now what?” you might ask yourself, questioning the very nature of your freedom. You might even long for the time when your life was as uncomplicated as your single celled relatives. It works this way. There is a direct connection between the two threats. In the black hole you’re diminished and in the...
Addictions and the environmental crisis
Is there a connection between our addictions to drugs, alcohol, tobaccco – maybe even coffee and tea, to our environmental crisis? Freda Karpf wrote Conversations with Nic based upon the journey through the land of withdrawal. A multi-genre work, Nic, has real and creative episodes. The whole book can be read from cover to...
Nic vaccine
Check it out and but also check everything out regarding quick quit cures and know that “Relapse is a significant challenge facing smokers, Volkow said. With currently available therapies, relapse rates can be as high as 90 percent in the first year after a smoker quits. Of the 44 million people in the U.S....
Alchemical wedding 5/5
An alchemical wedding is about a blending into wholeness. The loss of or lack of differentiation. It’s the ultimate form of synthesis where materials and spirit are blended and the component parts are evident but not yelping for attention. If we were in the hands of an alchemist we wouldn’t be able to...
Alchemical wedding 4/5
The alchemists whole deal was about turning base metals into gold. A charade. They were philosophers or as many would prefer to call them, heretics. They wanted to speak about the journey of the soul and touch upon spiritual subjects that were near and dear to them but they weren’t religious or hog tied...