Life, Death, Healthy & Plant-based Living

When Serendipity Strikes When serendipity strikes, when you meet a total stranger and instantly hit it off as if you’ve known each other for many years, it leaves a wonderful and memorable tattoo on the mind. And so it was recently when a massive plate of salmon, being consumed at the table next to me, stole my attention. It wasn’t the two pounds of salmon that captured my imagination; it was the 100-pound woman still eating the salmon 20 minutes later. “How much salmon is she going to eat in one sitting?” “How much salmon does she eat each week and how frequently?” The questions tugged at me, so I stood up, opted to think out loud, and walked over and politely posed the inquisitions to her. I met an extremely pleasant, thoughtful and enlightened woman who appeared to be of retirement age. The dominoes fell so fortuitously that here we were, a week or so later, recording a 90-minute podcast together. Joyce Gibson, an Energy Healer who has been immersed in enlightened and conscientious eating and living since the late 1960s. Together Ms. Gibson and I discuss: Healthy eating and living habits; How do people north of 60- and 65-years old make peace with growing older, the fear of being alone, and death? Why do so many humans think that 70 is old and that being sick, and in pain, and losing your memory is almost a foregone conclusion? The psychology of words such as “older person” and “senior citizens” and “elderly”? Can we think of better, more optimistic descriptors? Breathing your way out of stressful situations for a calmer heartbeat and peace of mind; The power of Intentions; How Death can be, in many ways, a measure of our Faith in God or whatever you believe is next.