The past two months have been hard on my body: a wasp sting, two vaccinations, and a knee injury from falling over my poodle on the way to the bathroom in the dark. Thank God my friend Karen promised to send me the name of an anti-inflammatory loaded with turmeric.

Swelling and tenderness doesn’t stop with the  injuries. I live in a state high on the list for shootings, and the community college incident three weeks ago painfully inflamed my heart.

I recently read a wonderful quote reminding us that if we live, only once, in the moment, we have experienced eternity.Tonight I mindfully watched the remnants of this weekend’s leftovers  slowly circling the microwave and thought of us lumbering through the universe, in a world we no longer understand, in need of massive turmeric supplements…our hearts skewed.