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I attended a memorial service and after party/gathering in a rural western Colorado 'fellowship hall' for the husband of a friend of mine who has just been very special since the day we sat next to each other at a progressive health-type seminar three years ago this month.  My day's variables had been more time-extensive than I'd planned and Google misdirected me to miles from where the service was AND the one paper notice that I read happened to be incomplete and gave the time and place of the after party as the time and place of the memorial.   read more »

Are YOU an Artist? Writer? Reader? Garden?  Woodwork? Watch Movies?  read more »

If I were to have a half hour of time in a video to describe occupational therapy and chronic pain from my perspective, which is the Lumigrate 'You Model" basically, I'd do it in the following way:  read more »

I'm playing a little game with myself today and hoping you can help me.  What elements would you put into something in order to teach people what they might want or need to know about chronic pain and illness and the base concept of Lumigrate, which is the 'You Model' of the home page?  You'll literally be helping formulate a big project which I'm working on the outline for right now.   read more »

I ran late getting over to Pablo Blanco's last night to cook dinner and help with 'glue up' of a big wood working project he has been working on for about as long as he's known me, which is 15 months now.  I think I was putting it off a bit because I was nervous about how it was going to go as I've not done a big glue up like this since about 1992, and fibromyalgia has come and had it's insidious impact on many aspects of my function, including dexterity, processing speed of the mind, and on and on.  Yada, yada, yada, as "Seinfeld" would say.  I was tired yesterday  read more »

"You can't have peace until you put the pieces together." These words were the big message yesterday as I had Oprah on in the background while I worked.  My interest was piqued because it was well done show about bringing people who had been separated back together; mother's who had given babies for adoption, for instance.  Since my father was adopted and later in life was found through Adoption Exchange by a niece who also had been adopted out, a family who had someone do the whole genealogy ancestry and had this one 'missing boy' from 1921.  He'd  read more »

It's always a pleasure to see an e-newsletter in the inbox when it's from Dr. Teitelbaum, because they only send out something when it is Some Thing.  Today it was to report that his new book about sugar and health is available from Amazon.com.  (You'll notice our products page puts people through to Amazon as well, which we chose to do because it is such a 'trusted and familiar' route, but ideally another source for people shopping for products from Lumigrate is something we're interested in pursuing).   read more »

Every day I wake up like anyone maybe does, thinking about what I have in front of that day.  Today is an important spiritual day for many in the world, as "The Season of Lent" began, as I was grateful to see it referred to by Alice in a new post today in the Forums / Spirituality.  Alice lives where Mardi Gras originated in the USA and she wrote the most wonderful piece about it.  Alice and I go way back probably about six months when we'd connected on facebook and she had started utilizing Lumigrate and our videos, which got us 'chatting' on facebook one day.&nbsp  read more »

"Lumigrate" is an amalgam of the words "luminous" and "integrate" surrounding the shift in health and medicine desired by consumers for more traditional/holistic components to be brought back into health care along with the previously dominant allopathy/modern medicine.  In the new millennium, the majority of people in the United States will state on surveys they want 'alternative' medicine as part of their health care.  By people and providers learning more about integrative medicine, health care costs can be lowered  read more »

This is the first Valentine's Day for Lumigrate!  This time last year the web designer, Ron Shimshock, and I were probably communicating with each other even on Valentine's Day, as it was in the timeframe of when we had lots going on -- the credit card processing needed to be taken care of (which was something he set me up well with good information about how to do my part of, three suggested companies to pick from -- and I'm so very happy to have chosen 'Heartland Payment Systems' and have to say the woman who is my representative has not only been a pleasure to work with, but to also  read more »