- "Where is the Chocolate?" by YourEnchantedGardener
19 y
5,833 11 Messages Shown
Blog: Plant Your Dream!
The Opening Ceremony of the Feng Shui Conference
was marvelous, some of my best work kicking off a conference.
I surprised myself.
I went to bed the night before without a clue what
I would be saying the next morning.
Then,following the Opening Ceremony,
I had the kickoff of the three "Enchanted Gardener's
Lunches between 1-2:30 PM. After this, 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
the "Plant Your Dream Class." This was a lot of activity all in one day.
I was dragging.
In the opening Ceremony of the Feng Shui Conference
one of the assignments was getting the conference attendees
to support the lunches. The tickets were $35.00 each.
I underscored the importance of the lunches being a success.
The Organic lunches simple had to be a success.
This was a landmark for history,
organic and biodynamic food were coming into this Hilton San Diego
Resort for the first time.
I also let everyone know that I had done my best.
Not all the foods were organically grown in each meal.
I also said, we would be having some desserts
including CHOCOLATE MOUSSE.
Then I lead everyone in reciting after me the
"World Famous No Calorie Poem" that I brought out
for this occasion.
I told them that if they said these words nothing that they
ate would count toward calories!!!
I said, "There is one person in this room who is
thinking that they are not going to go to the lunches. They
are really going to be missing one of the highlights of the conference."
Ticket sales soared. We had a marvelous turnout.
The first meal passed. There was no chocolate.
The women started to complain, at least six of them.
"Where is the Chocolate?" They wanted to know.
She said, "Chocolate is like making Love to a woman."
I felt I had really blundered in promising, but not coming through
with the chocolate.
She was really bothered and deeply disappointed.
Then the second mealcame and went.
No chocolate. The choir rose up.
"Where is the chocolate?"
There was one more lunch to go.
The dessert was Sorbet.
Your Enchanted Gardener,
The World's Greatest Lover, was about to go down in flames.
I truly did not know what had happened to the chocolate
and this was the third of the three lunches.
The Women were in uproar.
The great Goddess was up in arms.
I was quickly loosing my standing
as the darling of the conference.
"Our cute and adorable EG is weak on keeping his word.
He does not produce what he says.
He is not to be trusted."-- All this was going through my head...
intense disappointment was rampant in the Qi of the Conference
and in the choir of women.
I had to save my reputation. Luckily I was up to the occasion.
I had already raised more than between $2000.00 and $3000.00
to supplement the lunches with funds from Sponsors who were helping
to supplement the numbr of organic foods in our meals.
The original estimate alone in the chicken order was $2200.00
for the "Wright Poultry happily ever after, antibiotic free, hormone free,
range free, well Roostered Chickens."
http://www.wrightsfoods.com/index.html
http://www.wrightsfoods.com/index.html
I sprang into action.
We SIMPLY had to have a chocolate Sponsor.
Someone would have to go out to Whole Foods Market
and get some top-of-the-line Chocolate, no ifs, ands, or butts.
Makeda Dread,a dear old friend, and one of our Media Sponsors
at the Conference, was going
to leave for the afternoon. She had promised to help me
set up the EG Installation.
I asked her to go out and get some chocolate.
"I don't eat chocolate!" She said.
I was a bit pushy.
"You simple have to get some chocolate!"
I said.
Then I started to work the room.
Shelly Whizen, a philanthropic spirit, opened up her wallet
and pulled out seven bucks.
Then, I went to the International Feng Shui Guild (IFSG)table.
I presented the predicament. Anne Mansfield, the President of
IFSG turned to others on her board of directors. Lynn Ashcroft with a background in finance, said, that they should match others contribution.
Anne said, "Was $10.00 enough to be a chocolate Sponsor???"
of course I said.
Then, a lovely lady rose to the occasion, and stood above the crowd.
"I will be the Chocolate Sponsor!!!! Here is $100.00.!!!"
It was Evana Maggiore, President of Fashion Feng Shui
who came to the rescue of the Chocolate loving
women of the world:
http://www.fashionfengshui.com/learn/learn_intro.htm
She gave me her card.
We all acknowledged her!!! The ladies were happy!!
Everyone gave Evana a loud round of well deserved applause!!!
Let them eat chocoate had won over and the day had been saved.
i took a photo of Makeda with Evana.
Then Evana went off across the grass to withdraw $100.00 in cash
from the ATM. This was a real sister coming to the rescue of all
her other sisters, who had their chocolate hormones raging.
About 15 minutes later she returned.
Raves rang out among the Queendom of Feng Shui Women.
The day had been saved!!!!!
Makeda, the non-chocolate eater, who is the DJ of Makossa Radio 91x San Diego,
look on the assignment to go to Whole Foods. In our many years together,
I had not known her to be totally a timely person.
This was the ultimate test.
She had promised to return for the Closing Ceremony camera in hand
and Chocolate in the bag--$100.00 worth.
She left with her entourage on this mission of mercy.
I was really counting on her to video this Closing Ceremony
later that evening.
She did show up, chocolate in bag, but Jesse, her camera
man, was having a bad hair day. He decided to stay home
in a mood, and so there was no camera.
Chocolate Yes, camera no?
Now I was sad and disappointed but I could not allow myself
to be too down...It was Showtime!!!!
At one point in the ceremony I announced we would be eating chocolate.
Each person had to feed the other.
This was a Classic Closing Ceremony, a real hoot.
The chocolate eating was one of the highlights.
We also had a 100-woman puppy pile meltdown, men included,
and a Choir of women reciting in unison "My Goddess Prayer for You,"
one of the Seven Love Cures.
The next day, Monday , there was one more lunch. IT was not one of the
three organic lunches.
I went anyway. It was a very, very small crowd.
Friend Manu Butterworth of the Golden Gate School of Feng Shui
was bummed out because he told me that Roger Green, the organizer, was being
charged for 50 uneaten lunches to meet the contract for Monday.
Amazingly the dessert on Monday was--
you, guessed it , the missing CHOCOLATE MOUSSE!!!!!
I realized that this dessert had been scheduled for Sunday, but I had
switched the Sunday and Monday menues because I wanted to use
the Basmati Organic Rice from Goldmine Natural Food Company
that was originally part of the Monday lunch.
I had forgotten
that the Menu for Sunday and Monday and been reversed.
I asked the server to bring all the extra chocolates to the main
vendor area, but lo and behold...the small group of Monday
Luncheoneers had eating all but two of the Mousse's!!!
These two were transported to the Vendor area where they sat on my desk
in the Enchanted Garden Altar area.
The flowing woman juices were nearly palpable as numbers of
women lurked around my desk awaiting some invite to bite and
indulge in relations with the dark, moist, fragrant, gourmet
delight.
Libby, one of my favorite Goddesees of the event,
was in deep unrequited yearning. I manipulated her hormones, requesting that
she patiently wait and offer help to Steven Spangler who was loading
up his tropical trees before we would do a photo shoot of her
fulfilling her bodily desires for a slice of pie.
We did a photo of of the missing mousse
so all could enjoy Chef Hermann's dessert.
via the internet. Libby was going out of her mind
as I called for patience.
Finally, she sat on the edge of the EG Mobile
as the cool air of early evening
crossed through the Hilton San Diego Resort.
Eyes reeling in Goddess anticipation, her fingers
took the place of a fork. Her mouth opened. Her tongue
lunged and mounted bites of dark dessert.
Libby, our archetypal Chocolate eater,consummated her
desires for all the women
of the Sixth International Feng Shui Conference.
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To help support Enchanted Garden Activities
at the Feng Shui Conference, please visit
http://www.lesliegoldman.com/Feng_Shui_Conferences/id52.htm
You are invited to see Libby and other pictorial
images of the Goddesses of Feng Shu
including an intimate closeup of Chef Hermann Schaefer's
Chocolate mousse.
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Evana Maggiore, an Enchanted Garden Club Member
and the woman who rescued us from having "No Chocolate!"
at the recent Feng Shui Conference, has a wonderful
web site addressing the subject of apparel and how it can be used
to enhance your life.
This is from her feng Shui Quiz:
QUESTION:
Are you Conservative, nurturing and/or a homebody?
What kind of "fashion" will enhance and support this?
http://www.fashionfengshui.com/tipstrends/tipstrends_quiz.htm
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YourEnchantedGardener
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- I Ate the Chocolate! by YourEnchantedgardener
19 y
3,101
Good Morning,
I am Melanie Ferreira, Chef, and Nurtritional Consultant and recently certified in Feng Shui. I have been teaching about Food & Healing & Chinese Medicine for the past 35 years. It is 6:00 am in San Diego, California and I am in Roger Green's room where I am getting ready to leave for the Taoist healing retreat that I will be teaching with Roger in Zacca Lakes just outside Santa
Barbara. I was awoken by Leslie as he wanted me to read the story of the chocolate saga here at the Feng Shui Conference.
I usually don't eat or crave chocolate. It only took me 33 years to be able to say this! What I really crave is organic, local, sustainable, nutrient dense, well prepared meals. So chocolate, believe it or not is not up there on my top ten list. I was not one of the women begging Leslie for my chocolate fix. I wanted the brown rice, the raw cultured butter from grass fed cows, the egg from the pastured chicken, the salmon that lived wild in the sea. I was one of the few left on Monday eating the organic lunch. A delicious cream of mushroom soup, a luscious salad with organic free range chicken, a luxious breeze off the sound, a beautiful sunny day. Then the chocolate arrived. I thought to myself - I will just have a bite. Before I could put my fork into the deep chocolate mousse I was taken by the exquisite layers of chocolate with the swirls of chocolate sauce next to the 3 organic rasberries looking up at me. From 35 years of critiquing
food I knew this was no ordinary chocolate. I bite into the first bite. The silky texture swirled throughout my mouth, the organic rasberries burst with flavor - aah just like the rasberries I used to pick with my father when I was a little girl - this was real food! I couldn't get enough. I too was now seduced by the chocolate hormones. I was dancing, I was floating, the endorphins were taking hold. I was in love again! I asked for seconds. Thank you Leslie for remembering the chocolate!
Melanie Ferreira
Chef Instructor
Nutritionist
Feng Shui Consultant
Head of Slow Food Hudson Valley New York
mferreira8@optonline.net
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YourEnchantedgardener
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- Re: I AM SAM by YourEnchantedGardener
19 y
2,150
dear my most wonderful leslie...the man who lights up any room and fills bellies with the magic of great food and minds with inspiration. this last few days have been a turning point for many im sure, including me......to pursue acupuncture and tcm - so ill c you soon, maybe ill set up a tent in your backyard.......
roger greens niece sambalina
sambatink@hotmail.com
ps the puppy pile was amazing, i dont know anybody else in the whole world who could get over 50 grown ups to spoon eachother on the floor of the hilton, you rock leslie!
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YourEnchantedGardener
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- Chocolate is a SuperFood by oztin
19 y
2,498
Raw slightly fermented chocolate nibs is literally the food of the Gods. It contains over 1200 different chemicals.
It has the raw ingredients for the production and retention of all of the neurotransmitters that our brain and body as a whole uses. Please google it for your own information.
Chocolate is truly the magical food... that's why Harry Potter and all the wizards eat it. :-)
~Oz
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oztin
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- Re:YES Oz! by Yourenchantedgardener
19 y
2,117
I am very aware of David Wolff's book
on Chocolate.
i have eaten chocolate lately
and agree with you.
The high vibe chocolate rather than
the sugar laden chocolate is of course
preferred.
Where do you suggest we get the best
kind? Do you like David's?
your eg
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Yourenchantedgardener
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- Re:YES Oz! by oztin
19 y
2,519
You might be able to purchase some at your local Whole Foods, under the lable "Nature's First Foods" (I think that's the lable). I purchase my chocolate from a raw supplier locally, but he's always back-ordered for a couple of months, so I also resort to Whole Foods.
I'm really happy that you've also discovered the wonderful world of raw chocolate! Right On, Brother!!!
Naked Chocolate, by David Wolfe and Shazzi (sp?) is a wonderfully enlightening read. I highly recommend it... although, to be perfectly honest, I'm still waiting for my copy! I've only read the reviews. LOL! :-)
I've been eating chocolate now for about 2 months, and the changes in me have been so dramatic that I've been considering blogging it in a separate blog from my current one. I've beeen making great gains in every aspect of my being, and I feel that I'm starting to hit my stride now.
More details to follow.
Wondering out loud... I wonder if J.K. Rowling knows about chocolate and that's why she chose to write it into her stories... curious.
The Wizard,
~Oz~
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oztin
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- Re:Thanks, OZ by Yourenchantedgardener
19 y
2,339
I am going to trust your inispiration, OZ,
and get some of those nibs that David Wolff
puts out, although they are expensive...
but then...they have the doctor bill included, right?
I saw the chocolate book at Kung Food in San Diego.
I am inspired by you to get some of the Chocolate
and bring it up to the Whole Being Weekend next weekend.
I could use that kind of additional supplement.
I received David's email all about the Chocolate yesterday
so it is in the flow. I have some great photos of David
from the time I met him out here. He is a Young Jensen.
Write some things about healthy "Chemicals" OZ.
"Chemicals are getting a bad name....because the ones
we are doing are from the Tree of Knowledge Not off the Tree of Life.
Dr. Jensen was a major teacher of knowing about what he called
the "Chemicals evolved for human consumption."
David Wolff and GC were both hot on the Trail of Jensen's research
that is included in the Book "The Chemical Story.."
I highly recommend that you get this book from Art Jensen
company. I will give URL later when I am not on the run.
thank, Oz.
Hogwarth used the Crappy kind of chocolate,
but it still has some positive uses. Felis Dunas,
my favorite sex teacher, see Passion Play ,wrote the book
on chocolate.
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Yourenchantedgardener
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- Fermented Chocolate and Candida by Liora Leah
19 y
2,183
| "Raw slightly fermented chocolate"--is this ok for folks who have a problem with Candida? Thanks, Liora Leah
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Liora Leah
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- Chocolate Kicks Candida's *ss by oztin
19 y
2,428
Hi Liora,
If I had candida, I would be gobbling up lots of chocolate, eating lots of Himalayan Crystal Salt with every meal (and even doing a flush with it), drinking lots of water, and taking Indium. That's what I would do if it were me.
Hope this helps!
~Oz~
p.s. almost all of the raw chocolate that you buy is slightly fermented. The fermentation process removes a lot of the bitterness or real raw cacao and converts a lot of the chemicals into a form that your body can better assimilate... or so I've read. I have no actual experience with it, so I can only pass on what I've been told, or what I've read.
p.s.s. there's other products that specifically targeted to wipe out candida. Do you know of any?
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oztin
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- Candida Remedies by Liora Leah
19 y
2,310
I can only list what I've used when I get a flare-up as there are zillions of remedies out there. I think anyone who has candida has to try and find what works for them. I get it on and off, both in my gut and vaginally. A few times when it was really bad it was systemic, and boy was I a witch with a "b" to live with for two months as it affected my brain chemistry and I was raving and irritable and irrational. Usually my flare-ups have to do with poor eating, like when I "go off the wagon" and eat sugar in any form: cane, beet, fructose, barley malt, organic or no. absolutely NO ALCOHOL for me.
I DO drink LOTS OF WATER every day--this is about all I drink anymore, with an occasional herbal tea for medicinal purposes and rarely organic fruit juice watered down with ice cubes and 1/3 to 1/2 water.
I can eat fresh fruit without ill effect, exept for cantalope as the skin is very porous and the fruit is subject to mold; it give me diarrhea. I can eat honey do melon, however. go figure.
I take Spilanthes Usnea Compound by HerbPharm. I get it at my practitioner's office or order it from my local health food store. It comes in a 1 fluid ounce glass container with a stopper. this doesn't sound like much but it lasts a long time as you only use drops of it since it's a liquid Herbal dietary extract. Since it's an extract I take anywhere from 35-40 drops in a bit of water 3X daily, depending on how bad the flare-up is. I even put 40 drops of it in warm water and douche with it when the problem is vaginal candida and this helps immensely! It's got lots of good stuff in it like usnea lichen, oregano leaf and flower, spilanthes flowering herb, pau d'arco inner bark, tea tree leaf essential oil. It's certified organically grown. It does come in a base of grain alcohol (57-67%)and even though the amount is minimal when you are using only drops of the extract, I still "burn off" the alchohol before taking the remedy. I do this by boiling some spring water. I put the appropriate number of drops of the extract in a small cup and then pour a little hot water into it. The alcohol evaporates. I let it cool to room temperature and then swallow it. The boiling water does not affect the medicinal value of the extract.
I also use a Thorne product called Lactobacillus Sporogenes. It comes in a capsule 100mg each. I take two a day, every day. It is a "good bacteria" that aids in digestion. It helps keep the level of candida in your gut down. I give it to my son who also has occasional problems with candida in his gut, mostly from poor eating habits (he's a teenager and doesn't listen to mom when it comes to avoiding sugar in his diet). I get it from my practitioner and am not sure how a person would get it in a health food store--I think Thorne sells it by a different name in the stores. They sell it under the Thorne label only to health care practitioners and pharmacies. Thorne's address is Thorne Research, Inc. Dover, Idaho USA 83825
Leslie uses a powerful form of acidophilous he gets at Whole Foods Market. Leslie, could you post the name of the brand you use? He has written how it helps him with his digestion, and I'd suspect it is great for candida, too.
Thanks for your info on the raw chocolate, Oztin! I'm gonna try it. I love processed chocolate but I can't tolerate it--sugar, milk, caffeine--aarrgh! My candida loves it, though!
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Liora Leah
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- That was GREAT! LOL!! n/m by JeSuisButterfly
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