The Alchemist, and The Inteligence of Nutrition

I am round at the Turners house, and they have bought the house next door to their current house, so as to have more space and maybe rent it out. Aidan and luke are showing me round the kitchen.

They have been working hard in this new house, putting in new work surfaces, and creating a nice space. Lots of work needed doing to it.

 I now go into the garden, and Aidan shows me what work he has been doing in it.

Flower boarders are cleared, and a few shrubs are planted. Its not a big garden, so its been quite an easy project to manage.

 I now travel down south to visit Mari and Alick, with my family. We chat with them both. And Mari shows us round the cottage, and all the hard work she has been doing to make it nice.

 After visiting this place, we drive into Bath to visit a special drinks bar.

 The man behind bar serves us up some interesting looking, and tasting, drinks, while my brother James tells us stories about this bar. One of the stories he tells us is about how the bar man is really a professional alchemist, and he used to make sacred intoxicating beverages, with cannabis and wild mushrooms, and medicinal herbs.

We want to taste one of these, so he gives us a beer which also has cannabis wine in it. Dad also knows about this bar man. Apparently he came from south africa. We are surprised, as its not something we would expect from dad.

 I get another drink, a beer which I drink through a long straw. Its very hoppy in taste, and quite bitter, but very good for one. Some men in the bar are making jokes about how bitter the beer is, and how it makes you need to go for a pee more than any other beer. James tells me about a friend who has been through some real difficulties, and how he needs gentle healing, how healing needs to be slow and gentle for him, so its not to full on all at once. I meet a nutrition guy from America. He is talking about the Intelligence of Nutrition.

He refers to this point of picking foods in relation to the point at which you put the food in your mouth, and understanding the difference between mental knowledge, and experiential wisdom. Not until food is in the mouth can one gain experiential wisdom of nutrition.