my trip

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Hi everyone,

I'm back. A couple things about my trip to Montreal--

My friend and I each bought a Breyer's ice cream bar, and the ingredients

listed " fresh cream " and " fresh milk. " From what I've seen, it is followed

in Canada, like the US, that pastuerized milk will say pasteurized on the

label. My understanding is that just " milk " may or may not mean

unpasteurized, but " fresh milk, " usually means raw. In any case, in the

French listing it said " creme fraiche, " so I think it might have been

_cultured_ cream, since the " fresh " belonging to milk was spelled " frais " in

French. (?) In any case, if it really was " fresh " dairy, though it had sugar

and some other crap in it, that and the fact that it had a 1:1 fat to carb

ratio was somewhat redeeming about it, and not the typical American ice cream

bar.

On the downside, I somehow came down with conjunctivitis while I was there.

Interestingly, I brought some chicken stock with me, and made chicken coconut

soup, and drank a saucepan in the morning I realized I had it. Within a half

hour or hour of drinking it, my eye improved greatly. It tends to improve

during the day anyway, till the morning again, but it was true improvement

because the next morning it was not nearly as bad. That morning, I made the

soup but with twice as much coconut milk because I just used up everything I

had, and within an hour it made my conjunctivitis completely disappear, and

it was gone the next morning. Unfortunately, I went and got moderately drunk

last night, and now it is appeared again, not as bad, but my eyes are quite

bloodshot. *sigh* kid stuff. You know, I can't drink here, being 20, so how

can I resist... ;-)

Anyway, interesting testament to the centrality of food consumption to

outward illness.

Chris

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" What can one say of a soul, of a heart, filled with compassion? It is a

heart which burns with love for every creature: for human beings, birds, and

animals, for serpents and for demons. The thought of them and the sight of

them make the tears of the saint flow. And this immense and intense

compassion, which flows from the heart of the saints, makes them unable to

bear the sight of the smallest, most insignificant wound in any creature.

Thus they pray ceaselessly, with tears, even for animals, for enemies of the

truth, and for those who do them wrong. "

--Saint Isaac the Syrian