nakedjen

I don't know why it's been so long

"Pleasures
First look from morning's window
The rediscovered book
Fascinated faces
Snow, the change of the seasons
The newspaper
The dog
Dialectics
Showering, swimming
Old music
Comfortable shoes
Comprehension
New music
Writing, planting
Traveling
Singing
Being friendly" 
— Bertolt Brecht 

• What I am reading A million years ago, I was fortunate enough to stumble into a theatre on a very cold February night in East Berlin and see a performance of this play. That same year, I also saw it performed with breathtaking brilliance by none other than Dame Judi Dench in the title role at the Barbican Theatre in London. That cast also included Zoe Wanamaker and Tilda Swinton (and I saw the play, not joking, for like $5 because, well, London 1984).  All this to say that it still speaks to us now, just as it did then, perhaps even more so.  Mother Courage lost all her children in the war. We're still losing the battle. As humans, I am afraid, we may never actually learn that our past is prologue. 

• What I am eating  Ultimate comfort food. It's FREEZING in SLC right now. Big pot of this. It lasts. My professor is missing (not really, but he is not here this week) and this warms up and allows me to eat quickly after working all day at the clinic and dashing to other evening activities. 

• What I am Listening To  You pulled me up when you took my hand/There was silence in my heart/And now I'm striking up the band/They lit the bonfire but now we can light the lamp. Dirty Projectors latest release, Lamp Lit Prose, is a testament to everything that made me fall in love with them many years ago and remember that they're just good medicine for me. They're quirky, they're not everyone's favourite, but they're one of mine. 

• What I am watching  Rickey Jackson served nearly 40 years in an Ohio prison on death row for a crime he did not commit. He shares part of his story. 

• What I am thinking about When the powers that be decided to scrap the Medical Marijuana proposition that the good people of Utah voted for and passed, they also scrapped edibles along with it.  And with that, they scrapped my own plans to relaunch Dreamsweet Organics as a medicinal edibles company.  It is no secret that I have been also talking about how someone should actually come up with a CBD infused KOMBUCHA, so, hey, I'm glad to see that Dave was already thinking about this and was working away at it.  I also can't help but smile that he's calling this product DREAM CATCHER. Ahem. I've been aligned with this company since it was just one single offering on a shelf in small independent health food stores. I'm proud of his success. I honored to have been a part of it.
  
  And...I'm also still very angry at my so-called representatives in the state of Utah for preventing the citizens from having what they actually wanted in the name of Jesus Christ our Saviour, Amen.  Eventually this state will learn that democracy is not spelled MORMON. 

• What I am really feeling: Frustrated.  Introverted, as well.  I'm supposed to be at a party right this minute.  I didn't go because I decided pajamas and warm socks and a big black dog sitting in my lap were far more my style right now. I know, shocking. 
   

It's time #UTAH. This plant is medicine and with regulation could provide help to millions of patients that are currently using far more harmful drugs that do not actually work well for them.

Let's do this.

Sign the petition and at least allow the people a chance to vote for a choice.

www.utahpatients.org

Adding this here, because it is pertinent information and those who find their way here may appreciate it: Seniors Turn to Medical Marijuana 

Some Things Never Change

Remember when they took all the Kombucha off the shelves of all the stores across the land and all of us who identify as hippies thought we were all going to die?

Maybe you weren't someone who drank kombucha back then? Maybe you were hadn't joined the cult, yet? Maybe you thought to yourself, "Who pays $4 for a bottle with a jellyfish floating in it that tastes like fizzy vinegar and then actually drinks it instead of throwing it right into the garbage?" 

Well, that would be me.

Cult leader, Nakedjen. Who created a blizzard of special snowflakes when that special fizzy vinegar went missing from the shelves. 

Do you know that now they make BEET KOMBUCHA? I bet you already did know this. Because, you're part of the cult. You're drinking it and you've been waiting for this moment to tell me that you imbibe on the fizzy goodness every single day and...."YOU HAVE NEVER FELT BETTER!"

Salt Lake City, the land where all good things eventually do show up, now actually not only has multiple varieties of kombucha available, but we even have GROWLERS of kombucha available and, get this, we even have kombucha available ON TAP!! My god, people. It's like we might, some day, be like Portland. The dispensaries are coming. Just don't tell the people down at Temple Square.

No, seriously. I think they may be. It's a revenue thing. 

In the meantime, though, let's all just be thankful that the goodness is back on the shelves (it has been for a while, I know, I'm just back to talking about it) AND...shall we also be grateful that in some states you can freely participate in the self-care for the resistance by other means you may find necessary, as well.

Whatever it takes, people. 

I'm here to support you. With love. Always with love.