Preventative, Prepared, Immunity
I am giving you three words for this next year. We could post all of the best photos in the world in order to create a realized object world that we would wish to live, but in reality it is very different. How people are dealing with things is very different. Purchasing objects seemed to be a thing of covid, buying placates an inner empty. Hoarding, is an imbalance, as the medical world would describe the word. I am living in a world where Nostalgia is the drive, and the pull. Living in a past through objects seems to be more desired by some than living in the real world. Gaming is at its highest, shopping, drinking and drug use has filtered down to the teens. In this small little town it is at critical breaking. Several teens went out to camp at the end of town here in Bisbee, and add in drugs and it ended up with one kid stabbing the others and killing his friend. Who is responsible? The 16 year old?
I am going through training, as preparedness for shooters in schools, in government buildings, anywhere. Why? I get the idea, but it makes me incredibly sad. However, through preparedness, through preventative actions, the reactions are life saving.
As a prior Red Cross Instructor Trainer, also a Marine Offshore Training Instructor, it was about what to do when the situations arise, not avoiding them being wishful that they don't happen, or ignoring them pretending it is someone else's life.
Continuing on with more training I will be entering a 25 day Wilderness First Responder training in January. It is my cost thourhg NOLS which is pretty hefty at $845, and travel and lodging end of month, however, if I do not prepare, then certainty things will happen in my world as a Park Ranger, as a climber, as a hiker that I will not be prepared for. And in the position of expedition leader, friend, and teacher, I want to be helpful too. This leads me to share more ideas, of how to take care of yourself. As a person, always in service to others, even for the trees and nature, there is fatigue, mental fatigue that happens when the world around is in crisis. How do you take care of yourself when you are taking care of other? How to recognize when it feels like vampires all around you, and one day you wake up and don't have anything left to give anyone else. Often we do not realize until it happens. Your body begins to hurt, you don't sleep well, you develop imbalance, and the mental part looks like withdrawal, isolation, and pushing away. Often times your very caregiver is homeless, without any support system for themselves, and yet they give more than others with plenty. How then do we lead a life preventative, being prepared boosting immunity rather than draining it?
We live in a world now, that has been changed and we will never be able to go back. The last two years of the pandemic have changed so much. And yet there are still people not vaccinated. They don't realize how they blow up people's lives by just one exposure. The risk, is not being prepared, its being reactionary. There is a difference. As a practitioner of Acupuncture, I due my due responsibility to keep everyone I come into contact with safe, so I am vaccinated 3 times. I use guidelines in who I see and how things will go so that I can continue working, and keep everyone that comes to see me healthy.
Life is messy.
If you can take a course to learn more, if you can take a CPR or First Aid class, swimming lessons, get a vaccine, hike in the forests, read more, those are all boosting your immunity and preparing you as a conscious dweller on this planet. In that you are respecting and taking care of others, what better love than that? it is not about objects, or living in false realities, but looking around and taking care of life. I hope it will be for you too. Be well, everyone. With Love for a better 2022. Candace
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For the next few months (jan - March) I will be in Bisbee, Arizona. Soon it will be a new season with the NPS, maybe I will be rehired at Mesa Verde, maybe Yellowsone, it is a wait and see game, Seasonal. The hundreds of applications have been sent The applications for college professor positions continue to be sent as well. It is not a moment in my life that I am not applying, looking for that place to call home. This is a form of home less ness, the constant mental wanting of place to belong. Homelessness is a context and situation, not who someone is. No one was born wanting to be without home or family. Things happen and most of the time it is not their fault. it is not my fault the situation I am in, and the more I have compassion for others, then we can help each other.
I will be helping, while temporarily here in Bisbee to offer Acupuncture in all of its forms. I am at the Bisbee Farmers Market on Saturdays 9-1pm selling tinctures and offering Auricular (ear seeds). Did you know that auricular, using the ear to treat the body is very effective for illness and disease. It is closer to the brain so it is well documented that things of the mind, depression, anxiety, sleep issues, CNS, addictions breathing, etc. are very receptive to ear acupuncture. It is also seeds that applied to the skin through adhesive so they can stay active beyond a treatment for days. Peel off when they begin to come off. Simple, no needles!
My space is at 29 Main Street, Bisbee, Az. at the Object Ltd. Bldg. Call/Text for an appointment 971-222-5112
I have plant medicine tinctures ready and can ship to wherever you are. I can also offer Telemedicine consults. You are never too far away. See my Square site at https://daoqiacu.square.site/
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Those of you have asked about Yoga and Qigong classes both in person and via Zoom, I have no date in sight that I will return to teaching these classes anytime soon. With Denver Parks and Rec having been closed the last two years, and gently reopening there are some instructors being hired back at the rec centers. Online content has been restricted to full time employees only.
In the realization of 8 classes per week x 42 weeks in 2020, I am zoom exhausted. It was constant giving and the zoom screen teaching academic classes as well as fitness classes left me walking away from my practice, and maybe for good. I hike now with the trees to recover my heart. One day perhaps, you may be pleasantly surprised and we will all be in the practice room together again.
I continue to host my YouTube Channel that has many classes recorded from 2020: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEIKLkEKjWggkddjWM_Nrzg
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January Art Installation at Object Ltd.
Two years ago I started a research project on the Chinese in Bisbee.
I wanted to know who these "vegetable peddlers, brothelites, laundry hill people " were that had to leave town before sunset! Who were hated with an Anti-Chinese sentiment, but held the community of Bisbee together growing food, offering medicine, and cleaning miners clothes. Who were these lost and forgotten who were hated, were hung on a tree in town, but yet held this little town together?
This small town is known for its large gaping hole, one of the largest copper mine pits in the country. Bisbee definitely qualifies as "small town America" and since 1877, the Copper Queen Mine is just two miles north of the Mexican-American border. With over 2,000 miles of tunnels, the mine ranks as one of the five largest underground mines in the world. The pit covers an area of 300 acres (1.2 km²), and is 900 feet (274 m) deep. Large tonnages of dump rock are placed around Bisbee, notably north of the residential district of Warren and other parts of the southeastern Mule Mountains area. And the people live in the canyon where the coper smelters spewed out $2.5 billion dollars in 1880. I am here amongst it all.
As a Chinese Medicine practitioner, and aware that the Chinese building the railroads in America, were recruited just as the Mexicans, Native tribes, and other immigrants in the thousands came to Bisbee to work in the mine. Phelps Dodge owned the mine, the town and the desert southwest for all that matters.
The first Chinese that came to America, were merchents and sailors 1815-1840s. Then Chinese immigrants flocked to the United States in the 1850s eager to escape the economic chaos in China and for the gold rush. When the Gold Rush ended, Chinese Americans were considered cheap labor and recruited for the railroads. Continuing on into cheap labor positions, mining was the next step.
Phelps Dodge recruited thousands of miners from all over the world, taking in hundreds of Chinese men. At that time, more than half the town of Tombstone was Chinese in the 1870s. When a strike ensued at the mine, 1200 miners were marched out by gun into railcars and brought out into the desert in New Mexico to die. All of this is documented in Bisbee '!7 . More info can be found here: https://www.pbs.org/pov/engage/resources/bisbee-17-discussion-guide/background-information/
For this Art Installation, I have created oil pastel paintings, including photos of surviving news papers, and am currently hanging this little show to be open to public in early January.
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Field Report - Trees MVNP 2021
published 12/6/21 on EarthArXiv
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published 1/22/21 on EarthArXiv
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published 12/27/21 on RoninInstitute.org
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