LAKE WATER AND DELICIOUS FISH

Living in East Rogers Park with a Great Lake Michigan down the block, waves of water splashing over frozen sands, water with chips of ice, to dig a hole and insert a fishing line, to catch and eat cold water fish, to string a sharp pointy fishhook with nylon string, to pull up on the string to pop a Blue Gill into your mouth!

Sushi, raw fish, sweet and sour sauce, fish of huge amounts of Omega 3. Which was it meat or fish that was the attraction to the Israelites when they traveled the desert for 40 years? It was fish, not livestock meat that they desired. Fish is Kosher if it has scales and gills. Catfish and Swordfish are not Kosher fishes. Tuna and smoked salmon lox are Jewish traditional foods.

Ice skating on a Great Lake if it is frozen cold frigid solid ice. Sidewalks with a layer of ice for kids to ice skate upon. sliding all in fun.

On the rocks? Can a rock be your friend? A pet rock? On the rocks which are ice cubes in water, a drink over the bar counter, colored blue with a bright blue flame when lighted with a match. Spilled on the counter with a trail of gray smoke and blue fire, to snuff out in a hurry.

Not ever to go hungry, to carry a fishing pole with you and your pet dog, to live as a wanderer wandering along the water shores, always with enough water, always hydrated, always in abundance of fish.

Baked fish with a breaded topping for lunch. Fish is not the enemy, but what is the enemy if fish is not? Secreting thick Tartar Sauce over the pure white breaded fish, a bit of tanginess.

Is meat the enemy? Which meat and why? Do we become vicious predators with teeth as sharp as those of an alligator's when we tear our teeth into this reptile to eat it? Do we become this reptile as ingesting his soul as we eat him? Or, if meat is not the enemy is sugar the enemy instead?

Diabetes overhanging your head as a hang man's noose. Sugars raise your body sugar level dangerously and make the illness of Diabetes eminent. 

What types of sugars are there? Cane sugar is one we know about, and there are many non-sugar sweeteners as well on the market. Pink, yellow, blue packets, all chemicals that give your mouth a sweet taste. But these chemicals are just that, chemicals. Not good for you.

To have a mentor in my Mother who does not sweeten her drinks with sugar cane or chemicals either. To sip the clean purity of mother's milk each time we put a cup of tea to our lips, not sugared, instead pure and distinctive, a taste of loving-kindness.

It is okay to say no. Say no to sugar. What you can say if not "no"? We can say "No, thank you".

MY BEACH DOWN THE BLOCK

Wanting and wading, waiting, balancing as a gymnast on a pier, jutting narrowly, made of stone crusted cement, changing higher waves into smaller weaker waves, water movements controlled, waiting whetting for greater heights, dangling toes, fingertips, ice capped frozen sands of white snowy giggling glaciers, holes cut into Titanic ships passing by, a stream a scene of Sirens, hair drawn up and flowing down like serpents, a summer spent at a tanning salon, a winter spent below ground.

Queen Persephone, not Esther, with her husband Hades below the Earth, rising as a fiery vicious volcano spitting lava each Spring. To become a Phoenix seagull bird in fierce flight, flying in fright, feathery, summer after summer after summer, generation after generation after generation.

But do you know how to cook?? Well, now, would I trade my life as Phoenix to be a personal chef? How high can it take me? Hades did not take her up, he took her down. Down into the depths of Hell, an imprisonment enslaved as "domestic housewife". To spend the rest of my life in a kitchen? No thanks, I pass. 

The insects of locusts on my beach down the block. Fed all of Egypt, one of the Ten Plagues. Do you know how to cook locusts? They are Kosher foods, you know. The Egyptians ate them too! Curled arms on boiled insect bodies, small corpses mixed together with fried rice. How would I know? 

First born, killed? The end of the Plagues. Let My People Go is the password. How would I know? All you need is the Internet. Ask A Rabbi. How would he know?

If you ask questions you are admitting ignorance. But even though, there were four children and they each asked one of four questions. The fifth child? Why did he not want to know? Was he invited? Why not?

Answers to questions, chefs that do not cook, restaurants inside homes. Locusts as pets not pests. Bowlfuls of jelly-like goldfish, swimming around and around, dizzy, watching them swim, not to be fished out as dinner, instead as supper, yes, super supper, Cod for everyone. Omega 3. 

Cod fish at the BBQ down the block at my Beach. Slurping it up and sliding it down slippery in your throat, an esophagus filled with enough food no famine, dreams of pyramids, storehouses of fish for all. 

All at my village neighborhood Beach, all just a few steps down the block.   
 

STUDY OF POLAR BEARS FOR CURE FOR INSOMNIA

An afternoon nap, every afternoon, hiding in caves, bears taking a snooze hiding eyes from brightness with gigantic paws, crawling into their caves, dens, children cubs warming up in their mother's fur, not to end up as a fur coat, saved by those who care about the extinction of animals, animals who love humans, humans who love animals.  

To learn from the bear families, to be like them, to catch sleep during the day, to then be wide open-eyed to hunt your supper. Lake Trout swapped with fingernails as sharp as knives. 

What is the benefit of an afternoon nap? I never knew, but my grandma took them and so does my mother, it separates the morning from the afternoon, takes you from one gracefully into the other. After eating lunch, to healthfully digest your lunch, stomach churning while the muscles in your body are still and restful. 

Are you at work, have a full time job? Have a lunch break? Try to take one half hour to take a snooze. Try to fall asleep in a chair. Eyes closed, deeply in meditation and then wake up and go back to work. 

An afternoon nap! Sounds like a great idea. Yes, there were caves with cavemen who also took afternoon naps. Learn from nature, do as the animals do. Build a nest and coat it in the inside with feathers for warmth, for softness, buy a goose-down filled blanket and pull it up to your chin, head softly nestled into your pillow, to sleep.

Why do we want to sleep? What is the importance of sleep? The Psalms written by King David tell us "God visits His beloved in their sleep".