12 GROUNDCOVER NEWS VENDOR VOICES The healing of our ancestors The healing of our ancestors is our responsibility now as the mix of blessings and sins requires our attention and discriminating wisdom. “Water and the Spirit” by Malidoma Patrice Somé introduces us to this challenge and the revolutionary breakthrough that is coming as we work this field. I bought the book, read 11 transformative pages, showed it around and lost track of it. I have been a book person all my life and read voraciously until macular degeneration hit me a couple of years ago. My collection of unorganized books includes two that belong to the Ann Arbor Library — "Escape From Evil” by Ernest Becker and “The Vitamin Cure for Eyes” are books I want to find and get back to the library. I may have left them by the magnifying screen at the library. I habitually show books around hoping someone will master them and help me put them KEN PARKS Groundcover vendor No. 490 into practice. I really need a new take on my aging challenges. Age-related is added to macular degeneration as if it’s one concept. The actual cause is vascular endothelial growth factor, called veg f in the lab; it is a kind of enzyme that damages the capillaries in the eyeball and causes damage. It comes from an imbalance in the gut biome. Allopathic medicine has come up with an expensive anti-veg f injection, but has no clues about a healthier gut biome. The struggle for good health is complex and intense. The wisdom of our ancestors is vast and can be brought into play as we blend allopathic with all branches of healing. I am looking for lamb’s quarters now. Our ancestors know this weed that is medicine. Honoring the past without getting lost in habitual patterns and narratives is rarely accomplished. Many are those who say forget the past. I think this is because trauma fixations perpetuate traumatic patterns and become obstacles to healing. Viewing the past with detachment is an important skill. Calm, clear and complete is possible as we view reality by skillful means. Full and complete awakening can happen all at once but usually comes in stages. I am in the struggle for the next stage but ego fixation is active in my life. Reality is always present and alive. Ego fixation wants to organize reality to some preconceived outcome. When I wrote “Food as Medicine” for the Groundcover News magazine, I began with the mental food that we process in the play of the mind. Mind training is a lifelong process of learning about a healthy mind. Find the teacher who cares and is experienced. Malidoma, the author of “Water and the Spirit" mentioned above, can help us. He once taught at the University of Michigan. The revolutionary potential for a collaboration between Groundcover News and the University of Michigan is waiting to be explored. We have feelers out and hope to update you with plans in the next issue. You can prepare by listening to the January 6, 2024 interview with the University of Michigan School of Public Health’s Dr. Vic Strecher, based on his book “Life With Purpose." JULY 25, 2025 For Two Homeless Kevins, One a Blackman, One a Whiteman PHILIP SPINK Groundcover vendor No. 630 There are so many gentle homeless people in the world — Kind people, loving people. They may not be people who fit in easily. They may be too emotionally sensitive For nine to five battlegrounds. But they are good. But they are hearts in full. But they are people who should not be forgotten, And left to lives of dust and sorrow Out on the hardened streets Of the American dream falling, Away, I fear, from true community, That shares hands and hopes and hearths and homes When cold winds blow and people hurt. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide SHAWN SWOFFER Groundcover vendor No. 574 As I look into your eyes I see endless amounts of time that we have together holding each other looking into each other's eyes loving each other and just being together wondering what our future will be like this is courageous love true love and true guessing no wishing I can visualize the love that we have inside that's so spiritual and so free and loving I never expected this but everybody gets a chance at love love cannot be found but love can be recognized this is the love story that I feel inside love has found me deep inside nowhere to run no where to hide love deep inside this is the love I recognize inside
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