Day 11, More Gratitude

(Note: Day 11's post is coming at you a day early so that I can honor my Sunday practice of "digital dieting.")

I started this cleanse on 11-11, the day upon which I was offered that long-awaited job--the one whose interview led to the chicken wings, which led to the gall bladder attack, which led to the 21 day cleanse, which led to this blog, which led to gratitude expressed here today, and yesterday.

I've learned a lot about myself during the past 11 days--

• about my entitlement around food
• about my reliance on salt and sugar.  
• about my willingness to shove things into my mouth without gratitude. 
• about the way I've stuffed feelings and thoughts without consideration. 
• about how long I've been willing to tolerate an intolerable digestion.  

I've learned to appreciate the subtle treat of fruit again, and to delight in the variety of vegetables, and to embrace a simpler, gentler diet.

I've also learned about scalps. Yes, scalps.  Just yesterday, my hairdresser told me that I had a tight scalp. Did you know that you could have a tight scalp?  I spent the afternoon walking around rubbing everyone's head to see if I could feel the difference.

If you have a softer one, you're lucky, especially if you're a guy.  Men with tighter scalps have less blood flow to the hair follicles and thus bald earlier, or something like that, because she was talking kind of fast, and my head was under water, and I was worrying about all the hair that's been falling out.

Which got me to thinking, maybe my headaches are related to my tight scalp; and maybe I could work on softening it--through massage, and awareness, and generally less tightness around life.

See how much I've learned on my cleanse? 

(They actually sell scalp massagers.)