While We’re Waiting

While we’re waiting for the undeclared war on Iran to end, it turns out I’m allergic to peanuts and therefore to peanut butter. Bummer.

When I was a kid I ate lots of peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches largely because I made my own lunch for school starting in First Grade and peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches were something I could concoct on my own with relative ease.

I didn’t eat much peanut butter after elementary school, but when I did eat peanut butter I suffered no ill effects. However, when I entered my sixties (sixteen years ago) my aging digestive and immune systems started having trouble with dairy, eggs, sugar, and gluten, and now I must add peanut butter to the list.

When Marcia recently started eating peanut butter, I joined her in doing so and was glad to be reminded of another good source of protein. Delicious. For a week or so I ate lots of peanut butter every day. Then I started feeling exhausted and did not know why. And then I developed terrible blistery itchy rashes on my chest and forearms.

Lying on the sofa pondering my fate, I sensed the blistery rashes were an allergic reaction to something. I reviewed my diet and the only new thing I’d added recently was peanut butter. I looked up peanut butter allergy rashes online, and there we were. I then read about late-onset peanut butter allergy and learned another of the main symptoms was extreme physical exhaustion.

So I stopped eating peanut butter and within a day the rash began to abate. The exhaustion lingered for a week and then finally vanished. And here I had just modified my sesame butter cookie recipe to include four heaping tablespoons of peanut butter. Oh well.

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While we’re waiting for the midterms so we can oust the current regime, Marcia and I take walks on the headlands where the wild irises are currently blooming and floral beauty abounds.

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While we’re waiting for the designer I’m working with to finish designing the packaging for my new album/CD of songs and poems and piano solos, I thought I’d give you a peek at the cover of the soon-to-be-released collection of tunes.

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While we’re waiting to see just how bad things get because of the senseless war our senseless government decided to start against Iran, I keep taking pictures of people and dogs and plants and flowers. Here are some recent pictures you might enjoy.

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While we’re waiting for the dawning of a new age of love and tolerance and generosity, I play the piano and imagine the dawning of a new age of love and tolerance and generosity.

Fin

Ahora Entras Tu on YouTube and Spotify from Todd’s album Ahora Entras Tu