Cold Remedies
Dear Gentle Reader,
It’s been a lovely day, but it didn’t start out that way! I woke up at 2:45 with a painful sore throat. You know how you’re sleepy and tempted to ignore the symptoms? But a neighbor (who may have already shared her germ with me) had told me two days earlier that she’d wakened with similar symptoms and went to Urgent Care. So I forced myself to get up and go drink some water containing GSE (Grape Seed Extract). I’ve had very good success with that supplement this year. It’s not too expensive, either, probably less than four dollars. And then I swallowed 5 garlic tablets, filled up a hot water bottle, and returned to bed. By morning the sore throat was gone. But I’ve continued to take the GSE every few hours today on the premise that the germs might be stunned but not annihilated.
This was the day that my best friend Kathy and I were to meet to have our little Christmas exchange. We just couldn’t find a date when we were both free before December 25 , so we decided to regard ourselves as celebrating an early Christmas, that is, one based on the original Christian calendar (see yesterday’s blog) or the contemporary Eastern Orthodox calendar.
Although all my little gifts had already been purchased for her, it would make financial sense for people with limited funds to customarily celebrate Christmas on January 6, thereby taking advantage of all the post-Christmas and New Year sales. And children could have an extra day off at school, observing a religious holiday.
But maybe it’s hard for people to think outside the box when it comes to Christmas customs. Especially if they think Jesus truly was born on December 25.
Wherever you live, I hope you’re enjoying this little interlude between Christmas and New Year’s Day. I have no interest in any of the "bowl" games, but if the movie "Narnia" is still showing, it would be fun to go see it after church on Sunday.
Have you noticed?--The days are already starting to get longer. Isn’t that encouraging!
It’s been a lovely day, but it didn’t start out that way! I woke up at 2:45 with a painful sore throat. You know how you’re sleepy and tempted to ignore the symptoms? But a neighbor (who may have already shared her germ with me) had told me two days earlier that she’d wakened with similar symptoms and went to Urgent Care. So I forced myself to get up and go drink some water containing GSE (Grape Seed Extract). I’ve had very good success with that supplement this year. It’s not too expensive, either, probably less than four dollars. And then I swallowed 5 garlic tablets, filled up a hot water bottle, and returned to bed. By morning the sore throat was gone. But I’ve continued to take the GSE every few hours today on the premise that the germs might be stunned but not annihilated.
This was the day that my best friend Kathy and I were to meet to have our little Christmas exchange. We just couldn’t find a date when we were both free before December 25 , so we decided to regard ourselves as celebrating an early Christmas, that is, one based on the original Christian calendar (see yesterday’s blog) or the contemporary Eastern Orthodox calendar.
Although all my little gifts had already been purchased for her, it would make financial sense for people with limited funds to customarily celebrate Christmas on January 6, thereby taking advantage of all the post-Christmas and New Year sales. And children could have an extra day off at school, observing a religious holiday.
But maybe it’s hard for people to think outside the box when it comes to Christmas customs. Especially if they think Jesus truly was born on December 25.
Wherever you live, I hope you’re enjoying this little interlude between Christmas and New Year’s Day. I have no interest in any of the "bowl" games, but if the movie "Narnia" is still showing, it would be fun to go see it after church on Sunday.
Have you noticed?--The days are already starting to get longer. Isn’t that encouraging!
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