Are you environmentally friendly.

If so, love the little bit of Earth that is closest to you, your body.

Cat Stevens wrote a beautiful song called “Into White”. It goes like this. “ I build my house From Barley Rice, Green Pepper  walls and Water Ice, Tables of Paper-wood, Windows of light,  and everything emptying Into white”.

Maybe he is talking about his Body when he says “My house”.  And he builds it from Vegetables, Grain and Water. Perhaps the ” Windows of Light” are his bright eyes, shining forth the joy and vitality within. “Everything emptying into White” might  mean his eventual passing, as his body is surrendered and he goes on to the Heavens. Could be… And that’s the beauty of a song, it’s all in the interpretation.

               Perhaps your first duty as an environ-mentalist is to the little bit of Earth closest to you. Your Body. Build it well. Tell it nice things, feed it happy feelings and positive thoughts as well as good food. Let it play. Tell it you love it once in a while. It’s your home for a time so keep it clean. Do a cleanse. It is also your main vehicle for getting around town. Perhaps your body could be considered a motor home for your soul. So, run it on High-Octane fuel. This means any wild, nutrient rich food that is close to the source of life, the Sun.

               The Sun is the energy that sustains life on our planet, it grows the plants. Eat the plants and you get the energy, one step from the sun. Or let a cow eat the plant, then eat the cow. Now you are two steps away. Or leave the cow alive and eat the milk and cheese, now you are three steps away from the sun and still close enough to sustain a healthy body. But when you start eating partially hydrogenated, puffed, pasteurized air balls with orange dye #3 and refined sugar coating, look out. You are then building your home out of alien substances and after a while you will fall apart. You will start to look weird, like a puffed air ball with an orange tint. You will feel bad. And then you will visit someone who will give you chemicals to make you feel better.  Most people get on a prescription and never get off it. See you later, may everything empty into white for you.

               You are what you eat, literally. So when you eat dead food, guess what happens? Your energy plummets, symptoms appear, you get weird looking, then sick, and you die slowly. People call it old age and accept it, but you don’t have to.  I’d rather die snowboarding or  dancing. Fully alive, then, “BAM”,  into white.