Jessica Michelle… on your twenty-third birthday, I send you all possible wishes for deep, abiding joy, for a long dose of something similar to the joy you take with you everywhere you go. I wish you the best life has to offer, now and always. Here are some specific blessings I am asking for, prayers I am saying over your beautiful life:
- May you always have enough water tanks and terrariums to shelter all the orphaned turtles that cross your path. And may Bean never get nipped on his perfect snoot.
- May you always find time to cook good food, slowly, sensually, applying your great talents and affections to meals meant for people you love. May you also cultivate the joy of cooking for yourself.
- I hope that you soon replace the houseplants that were recently upended and devoured by your neighbor’s pigs, two amazing animals who you loved instantly.
- I am confident that your path is already anointed, that you will find your way through college and medical school and beyond, that your dreams and purposes are fulfilled in ways that are unique to you. Remember we are here to help you.
- How wonderful that you are well on your way to being truly bilingual with Spanish! May you contunue finding joy in that pursuit then learn every single language that sparks your imagination and your cultural appetite.
- I wish you a well used passport in life, the moment covid-19 releases us all. I wish you one fine adventure after another, to all corners of the globe, both with friends and loved ones and alone. Both kinds of travel are important.
- I am praying for deeper healing than you have ever experience in your life, and you have experienced plenty already. I am praying for a dazzling, transcendant expeience.
- May all the things you crave, all the things you cannot stop daydreaming about, take shape right before your eyes. May the best versions of every desire manifest for you.
- I also hope and pray for you to know unexpected joys! Surprises that you could never imagine. Those are thrilling, and you deserve them.
- You are the kind of woman everyone wants as a friend. May you find the kind of friends you want, too, lots of them, of various depths and flavors and walks of life. Friendships of every duration, for each season. May you cultivate exactly the kind of village that your soul needs. May you always feel safe and like you belong. Because you are. And you do.
- Please let Bean come swimming again before summer ends. I am expecting that to happen. We miss him. (Oh we miss you too, you can come.)
- I pray that you discover the harmony between building your self sufficiency as a woman and living in healthy relationships, in community, with other people, because they are both crucial. The world needs well nourished, happy women, and the world needs tightly knitted communities.
- I pray that you know your worth, that you have a deep and unshakable sense of identity that noone (including me) can touch.
- You have such a green thumb! May your life always have space to grow things.
- May you and Jocelyn make time for each other this year, more than ever before. I pray for your sisterly bond to be galvanized so you can mourn your Dad together, however you need to, and so you can build new memories and share your adulthood as much as possible.
- May you continue to see with your wide open heart how loved you are by our big, unweildy family, how loved you have always been. How much a part of us you are, and always will be.
- May you learn to appreciate movies with subtitles but sitck to your guns about avoiding heat styling tools for your gorgeous mane of hair.
- I hope that on days you feel particularly drained or stressed or just plain grief stricken, you are surrounded by peace and affection. I hope that you get the quiet time you need, regularly, as well as the activity you need. You are such a good, intuitive caretaker; I hope and pray that you always receive the caretaking you need, too. Remember I am always here.
- Sprinkles! Fruit! Salads! Ice cream and shortbread cookies! Eggplant Parmesean! Homemade marinara sauce! Chicken noodle soup! Pot pies! Really good, authentic street tacos, pasole! May you always fill your belly with your favorite foods. It is one of life’s best pleasures.
- I hope you accept exactly the perfect amount of overtime at the hospital, no more than you need or can do in a healthy way, and just enough to enjoy your earnings.
- Keep painting and drawing. Keep creating. Write when it strikes you. Express every shade and nuance of your soul. I pray that you never put your pens or paintbrushes down for very long. It will keep your blood flowing.
- Stick with hope. Stick with forgiveness and peace and Love. These are choices only the strongest women can make, over and over again. I pray that in the deepest parts of your being, you find rest and trust in the overall goodness of life.
- May you always know God’s voice, the sounds that He makes just for you and you alone.
I love you more than words can say. Happy birthday my beautiful baby girl, now truly a woman. I am so delighted watching you live your life. My heart breaks for you in your giref, and it soars with you in your joy. Life is all of this and much more, every detail in between. It is all worth living to the fullest.
Just Keep Swimming
XOXOXOXO
bw says
Happiest of birthdays!
msg66250 says
Corticosteroids
First, it has remodeled excessive-efficiency sport into a chronically
overmedicated subculture the pharmacological practices of which violate the ethical norms of sport.
Second, the doping medical doctors of the sports activities world have pioneered “entrepreneurial” medical practices that
are now available to enormous numbers of individuals
seeking hormonal rejuvenation. Warnings towards indiscriminate testosterone
supplementation from The Endocrine Society and other
medical authorities cannot compete within the media market with drug company tv advertising .
The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine ,
based in 1992 by two Belize-educated osteopaths, has been the principal promoter of this development .
My private opinion is that athletes and society,
together, are answerable for the drastic improve in the use of steroids the world over.
And, till we find enhancements that are a hundred% protected to the human body, we need to concentrate on our human capacities- which I imagine may be large and extraordinary
of their pure varieties. Yes, we will need to work tougher, however we will also degree the playing area and
serve as higher position models to our youngsters. These
are typically referred to as ‘steroids’ by medical doctors and shouldn’t
be confused with anabolic steroids. This is when the user becomes
irritable and even aggressive after taking a considerable amount
of anabolic steroids.
The primary benefits of this steroid are muscle development and energy.
Its anabolic effects are much stronger than its androgenic results.
Dbol gives you prompt pump on your exercises as you can work out
more durable after utilizing it. In summary, the doctor-assisted doping of athletes has had two major results
on the trendy world.
Hormonally… properly, we’re already hormonally screwed up to begin with.
People who abuse steroids will often accomplish that together
with stimulants such as Adderall or even cocaine to increase their power
as part of their general efficiency enhancement.
However, steroid abuse already places an unhealthy amount of stress on the guts and matched with the additional pressure caused
by stimulant use, the chances of coronary heart attack, stroke, and heart
failure are all extremely high. In addition, teenagers that have interaction in steroid abuse, similar to middle and high school-aged athletes,
can experience severely stunted progress, as the excessive
hormone levels produced by steroids act as a signal to the physique to cease bone development too early.
Unlike many other commonly abused drugs, steroids don’t stimulate addictive behaviors by the use
of rising mind chemical compounds like dopamine that get
the person high.
Daily Health News
Bodybuilders would acknowledge it from the name Decadron or
simply Deca. This is used medically to treat irritation brought on by arthritis.
The objective is to enhance the immune system and protect from inflammation. It has turn out to be increasingly
in style for quite a lot of causes recently.
Consequently, the pro-steroid lobby of the sports activities world
is now dwarfed by the large lobbying operation being waged
by “anti-aging” doctors, their clinics, and the pharmaceutical
industry that provides them with testosterone products .
The proponents of legalizing “medically supervised” doping
imagine that such arrangements between medical doctors and athletes are corresponding to proper scientific relationships between docs and patients .
I want to be able to go on the report with the life that I
lead. They’re the ones mansplaining what
to take and often promoting the ladies the steroids and different medicine they
need. These males think about themselves “specialists” and their windbag pronouncements
might carry extra weight than the opinion of a woman who has used her body
as a laboratory and might tell you which drugs work for her and which of them don’t.
But even these prescribed steroid uses come with adverse side effects, that are solely
magnified by steroid abuse. What many people do not notice is that there
are safer options as properly. Science has come a protracted way to produce supplements that mimic
the results of a few of these steroids. If you actually should take something along with working out
and controlling your food plan, then go for one thing that doesn’t compromise your health and take
your life.
In truth, these are doctor-clientrelationships that
may subordinate medical judgment and the shopper’s health to the demands of performance.
Anabolic-androgenic steroids are artificial forms of the first male sex
hormone, testosterone.
Medically, anabolic steroids are generally used as hormone substitute remedy in some men, teens suffering
from late puberty, and for muscle loss in sure ailments.
Despite proof tending to point out vital well being dangers
associated with steroid use, there remains appreciable speculation as to its
final effects.
It is because of the huge misinformation that has been taught to folks by our flawed
FDA.
Steroids, or more appropriately anabolic steroids, are artificial chemicals related to male intercourse hormones.
This natural manufacturing is maybe not enough to provide
you these huge weapons. Therefore, plenty of bodybuilders and athletes resort to taking testosterone esters to enhance manufacturing of this hormone.
You most likely have not heard of this steroid by its technical
name Stanozolol but by its other name which is Winstrol.
use of steroids and other performance and image-enhancing medicine among young men. ” Yes, after all there are and they should be applauded for taking the ethical high ground. However, we should not placed on the façade of shock and despair when we discover that our heroes are, in a word, regular and that efficiency enhancing medication are usually a systemic problem in sports activities. For us, it began with Ben Johnson and stanozolol – now athletes are putting all kinds of things of their our bodies to remain at the high of their game.
Also, there is a perception that this drug goes undetected in steroid detection exams. However, HGH could cause muscle and joint pain, excessive cholesterol, and even enhance the danger of diabetes and coronary heart diseases.
The body is bodily not meant to have a lot of the testosterone-producing drug in its system, however people push it to the restrict to increase the potential benefits. But lengthy-time period anabolic steroid use has a severe impression on the gland that naturally produces testosterone, the hormone found in the drug.
In phrases of how my body reacted to steroids, properly, you’re obviously going to do better on the fitness center. My restoration times have been faster, I gained extra measurement and I usually felt healthier and stronger. I would do a cycle for 10 weeks, as a result of with ladies longer, lower-dose steroid cycles work higher, whereas men do better with shorter cycles and better dosages.
Athletes Use Them:
Until around the 1970s, steroid use was extremely prevalent amongst each Olympic and professional athletes. In 1975, the International Olympic Committee banned using steroids, and in 1988, steroids turned federally regulated. Finally, in 1990, Congress passed the Anabolic Steroid Enforcement Act, which categorised sure kinds of steroids as Schedule III medication. Steroids do have many reliable medical makes use of, including helping to deal with asthma assaults, inducing puberty in individuals with hormone deficiency, and selling muscle growth to counteract the consequences of varied severe losing illnesses.
However, bodybuilders and athletes have been using it to boost muscle progress. The extra common name for Methandrostenolone is Dianabol or Dbol. Dianabol is similar to Anadrol and is a strong anabolic steroid.