For Cee’s Flower of the Day.
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For Cee’s Flower of the Day.
I usually hear the eagles before I see them. We were on East Beach on Marrowstone Island. These two were holding a conversation. We listened in.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: eyes.
Great blue herons must have great eyes to spot these small fish and grab them. How amazing.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: eyes.
For Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Great blue herons never look like they are of the earth to me. They look like they are of the air and of the water. Unearthly. I keep wondering if they are angels.
Eagles do not look earthly either. They do land on the beach occasionally but I see them in the air or in the trees most of the time.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: unearthly.
Blue stars, green sky.
For Cee’s Flower of the Day.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt is halo, and I wrote this yesterday, after a discussion with a new friend about angels and my angel dream.
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angels
light angels fall into dark
dark angels fall into light
there is no separation
we are longing for the Beloved
we are longing to be reunited with the Beloved
we have never been separate
we are one
light falling in to dark
dark falling in to light
seeing both is grace
no separation
I search my phone photographs for moon and come up with this photograph: an eerie sun and cloud photograph with a halo. Sometimes the clouds and fog combine with the sun to form frightening light, even though it is beautiful too.
The computer also picked this picture in the moon search. I’m not sure what that is about. Elwha had hopped into the bathtub not realizing that I had just gotten out. He was soaked and howled, because he couldn’t get out. He was a very grumpy kitten, grooming for an hour.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: halo.
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The source of digoxin and digitalis. I am interested when people tell me they don’t take prescription medicines and that they only take “natural” medicines. Meaning pills. Pills do not grow on trees or bushes and are made by human beings. How exactly is the person defining “natural”?
My father said that anything a human could think up was “natural”. “Though that does not mean safe.” Think wingsuits and basejumping.
Digoxin and digitalis are used less than in the past, because there are many other medicines to choose from to control heart rate. However, they are still used because digoxin is one of the very few rate controlling medicines that does NOT lower blood pressure. Most of the others do lower blood pressure. When nothing else works or is tolerated, the cardiologist may sigh and say, ok, start digoxin. It is a tricky medicine because levels that get too high are toxic and the dose is different for each person and the dose must be lowered as kidney function changes with age. We still use it, though.
About one third of prescription medicines originate from a plant source like this, where the plant actually makes the active substance. Plants and animals and humans evolved together. We have deer all over town and they do not eat the foxglove. They love roses but stay away from foxglove.
I am seeing advertisements for a book to make your own medicines at home. I have not bought it. I would stay away from any recipe with foxglove: I want a lab to test to get the dose exactly right.
For Cee’s Flower of the Day. Heh, it turned into an essay of the day too. Wordy, wordy, wordy.
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