Mental Crumblies: Volume 1

[elainegrey]

The Sand Ladder
Originally uploaded by Andrionni Ribo

The usual "whining" or my brain, why can i not bend it to my will?

Observation: thinking about doing something to "cure" the asthma, allergies, psoriasis, canker sores, headaches, sense of malaise, lack of energy and probably the depression too makes me very blue. What the hell is that about?

Cure is in quotation marks because i'm not certain i can "cure" this in the typical Western medical sense. I am thinking more of identifying life "style" changes: currently, food. I am not interested in giving up the cats or the (dusty) books. I'm slowly making other dust stopping changes, but i don't believe i'll ever have the level of clean needed to truly affect any dust triggers. Since i expect the cats are another traditional allergen, i could be free of dust and still have triggers.

I'm pretty sure that attempting a diet evaluation is the Right Thing and that the blues are because it looms ahead of me like going up the Baker Beach sand ladder. Someone's Flickr photo of looking down the sand ladder is to the right. It's hard to get a sense of going up it from the photos, because the seemingly infinitely distant sky prevents you from gauging the distance, unlike this photo where the tiny ant-like people help you gauge just how far down it is to the beach.

The ladder is featured in the modern Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon. Wikipedia says "400 uneven log steps."