The Healing Power of Food

[Trilby]

When I was a wee lass (well, 16) I had it in mind that I would love to own a sort of funky tea shop/sandwhich place. All the details for the building and decor and food/drink; type of employee I'd like, etc. were there. I never did a thing with it and a few years later, these little places were popping up all over the place. I never went with my gut to open a place.

I've always adored Halloween. Halloween wasn't really big after the 70's scare of razor blades in apples, etc. (those horrid "Harvest Parties" became vogue- or, worse yet - those "Hallowed KING parties" for the BornAgains...allow me to go off on a tangent rant here and say/rant: just because you RENAME a pagan holiday and pretend it's about Christ doesn't mean it isnt' a pagan holiday/endrant) I should have invested in Halloween when I was so in love with it because a few years later it hit really BIG. There were (and still are) stores wholly dedicated to just Halloween stuff. Missed that one.

I used to work in a clinic and I saw a new insurance-type emerge --- it was orginally called Western Ohio and it was a type of HMO that GM employees in our area got. They were encouraged to come to this Doc-in-a-Box place instead of ER's; they used us as family doctors tho we certainly weren't that but we were convenient as all hell and they paid anywhere from nothing to 10$ for the co pay. It was complete bullshit as mothers would bring their 5 year olds in who'd done nothing but skin their damn knee because it was cheap and made them look like "good" mothers. (around this time if a doc didn't Rx an antibiotic for those abrased knees he'd have holy hell AND the company pres to answer to--thus the emergence of the SuperBugs ---another rant)

I often thought, hey, I should buy stock in this insurance company. I never did. A few years later, they were bought out by a huge conglomerate and stock holders made five times their investment back.

How can someone so consistently NOT do what her instincts are telling her to do?

I'm in a mood today, I guess. Rather incoherent, too; stayed up late!

anyone else ever feel this...wistfulness?

OH! My original point! I"ve been thinking a LOT about how food is so IN right now. The whole Julie & Julia Project, etc. I'm wondering if I should try to open a little cafe...one that nourishes the SOUL as well as the body, you know?

I've no business experience. I'm probably nuts.