Jim spent decades getting sick without realizing it. When finally diagnosed with an autoimmune disease he didn’t believe it. Sure he had a belly, but he felt fine. Reality smacked him and he rejected all prescribed medications. He would rewind his life’s bad habits starting with his diet.
That took time, but he lost weight. His biomarkers improved. The diet became habitual. Jim forgot he was even on it.
He stopped thinking about himself. He realized he was consuming less. Perhaps even he, old Jim, could steward the earth rather than want to eat more and more of it.
Linked to the Carrot Ranch July 23 Flash Fiction Challenge where Charli Mills offers the theme of “a story to show what it is to protect nature around us”.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 
Good one Frank 💜
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Thank you, Willow!
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Diet can make a huge difference. (K)
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It can get one’s life back in order. Thank you, Kerfe!
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Ant Eater Lions
Ant Eaters Eat
Dead Meat And Live..:)
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Thank you, Fred! It is a good thing we have all of those different kinds of eaters.
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Nature Consumes
Nature Therefore
We Breathe As
A Mountain
Of Good
Bacteria
At Best We Are🐉
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What a great shift in thought told through Jim’s story. I loved arriving at the last line.
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Thank you, Charli!
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Like his commitment to lifestyle change and the last line made me chuckle.
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Thank you! I am glad you liked that last line.
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