Michael Sternbach

Oh boy. After years of foraging, I have finally done something incredibly stupid. I mistook a very close look-a-like for something I was familiar with and knew to grow in a certain area. It wasn't until after I finished a cup of tea that I realized that something was off.

I went back and looked closer at the plant and it dawned on me what I did. I called poison control for some advice, and he told me that my body will probably expel it naturally (in the form of a severe stomach bug.) How sick I will get will also vary depending on the level of toxicity in the plant.

I grew too comfortable with something I have done for years and made a mistake. Play taps for me, as I sink with my ship. Doot dooot

Hopefully there is a lesson I will learn from this. I will try to be more careful in the future.

You people post too much, I'm having a hard time trying to keep up. I think I'm going to step away for a while, because I've already found some new reading materials.

While I don't really believe in Qi channeling, I like daoism on more of a philosophical level, I am intrigued by it and would like to know more, so I've started with a few books I've seen mentioned in threads.

There are also some things that I want to look into in the future, for example the apparent rise of Qigong in the couple of decades before the year 2000, and how it's practices might have changed in the process of globalization and integration of other cultural medicine practices.

On the side, I am also reading 'The Botany of Desire' by Michael Pollan, and for entertainment purposes, Eight Tales of Terror by Edgar Alan Poe. My favorite story is 'MS. Found in a Bottle.'

Anyway, I will come back if I run out of things to do, or if I just get lonely.

So are you really in the land of watches? Why else would you be awake at this hour?

So are you really in the land of watches? Why else would you be awake at this hour?