Chinese Bamboo

I'm listening to Aleph - Paulo Coelho on CD from the library - a wonderful way to make the driving fun, enjoyable and useful. It's great on many fronts and I'm sure they'll be more nuggets but today the nuggets is all about Chinese bamboo.

Paulo says he read a throwaway article about Chinese bamboo taking 5 years to establish it's roots with no apparent growth or activity and then boom it storms ahead making huge changes growing up to 25 metres in the next can't remember months or years. Wonderful metaphor for introverts and the idea of mastery.

This web article (http://www.realage.com/health-tips/eat-at-home-to-lose-weight?eid=1010648418&memberid=32373514) seems to be suggesting that'd women when happy  makes the healthiest eating choices when at home. Doing some additional things that make dinner time beautiful (soft, light , cadres, gentle music) will have a positive emotional effect too.

Unfortunately for most mums dinner is a totally stressful time of balancing the fussy food ideas of their kids and the rush of after school and early evening activities.  Could a message here be make sure you have time to eat in a relaxed atmosphere as many times as possible. If this means preparing food in advance (moving the stress to another past of the day) and sometimes feeding your kids at a separate meal time so that you can meet their often very restricted needs and then get some kick back time to yourself. For some mums that's going to be dinner for one!