Those who know me well know that over the last couple of years I have had some of my first real bouts with any health issues. Prior, I was a pretty dang healthy guy!
Digestive flora shut down for four months, Giardia, and appendectomy with a few complications, and a horrible case of sciatica… Nothing life-threatening but certainly inconvenient, needing lifestyle changes, and the latter being very painful.
As I struggled to recover, I came to realize the following more clearly: celebrate life!
I keep hearing its echo… A dear friend with stage-four cancer of unknown origins now in remission, another friend barely escaping hemorrhaging to death during childbirth, a daughter and friends surviving the recent Ghost Ship fire… Life is fragile, fleeting… Life is a gift!
Enjoy it. Celebrate it. And know that health and vitality are fleeting and true gifts.
As this season of giftgiving begins, may we come to see and feel what is truly valuable – the presence of life and health.
May your holiday season be filled with life, light, joy, and love and improving health should it be faltering and a grateful heart for our most precious gift, one another to celebrate this with.
The Every Day Yogi 