I woke up to fog this morning. It wasn’t a dense fog but light where the houses and the flora had a mystical look to it.
This could be a busy day and it is a little as I go about doing paperwork (filling out a form for a new passport), filing, meditating, putting away clean clothes and making the bed. I’m not sure how much more I will do though there is another load of wash and to straighten up the kitchen.
In perusing the Internet, I learn that Demi Moore is crediting her youthful looks to leech therapy. Leech therapy? I know that leeches were used years ago to bleed folks in an attempt to heal whatever was wrong with them. I don’t remember how successful this treatment was but yuuuuck!
When my Dad owned property on the river, there was a sluggish place to cross over to get to the quicker moving water of the river. All of us kids hated this sluggish area because . . . leeches lived there. I thought they were gross. Being a girl, if that is a reason, I certainly didn’t want to have one of those things on me. It did happen occasionally and Dad would take a lighted match and hold the match near the head of the leech and it would let go. Thank heavens for fire. Fire also works well on ticks too.
Anyway, Demi wants to go back to Australia to have another treatment because the first time only four leeches were used and she feels she has been cheated. Did she check her brain at the door?
mz. em
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Quote of the Day:
”If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours…If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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Currently Reading:
“Duma Key” by Stephen King
“Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy” by Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Adult Children of Alcoholics” by Janet Geringer Woititz, Ed.D.
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In more recent times, leeches have been used to control post-surgical swelling. I haven’t followed the research, but it seems more or less credible.
But (personal opinion) I would no more use leeches cosmetically than I would let someone inject botulism (gently renamed Botox) ino my face.
Then again, I never gave Demi Moore much credit for smarts anyhow.
I think you would get the same feeling from donating blood. Do good for someone else and feel lightheaded at the same time.
I remember those leaches, yech. Not for me!