NEWSLETTER: Happy Healthy Holiday Greetings from Lino and Jane

HAPPY HEALTHY HOLIDAY GREETINGS

"Holiday" is a word with origins from “whole," and "holy." However you celebrate, these are holy times when we may experience a heightened sense of our natural wholeness of body, mind, and spirit. Holiday traditions and rituals elevate our awareness and delight our senses. Holidays are magical times when families can strengthen their faith, tell stories, make memories, read and cook together, play music, dance, and give the best gift of all…love.

Holiday time and always, we deeply thank our:
Healthcare Workers Families
Teachers Chefs/Cooks
Essential Workers Farmers
Volunteers Artists
Friends Caregivers

Eating well increases our immunity, vitality, and joy of life. The special care and quality of macrobiotic foods and cooking can be utilized to create new versions of our favorite traditional holiday dishes. Our holiday meals can reflect harmony of ecology, balance, and wellness. Prepared with the care and love, our holiday feasts can preserve dear family traditions. Happy and Healthy Holidays to you and your loved ones.

WE HONOR A VARIETY OF
WINTER HOLIDAYS

HANUKKAH: The ancient Jewish “Festival of Lights” celebrating victory, hope, and tradition from December 10th to the 18th. Eight main candles, with one additional candle as a Shamas or lighter, are in the menorah, to signify the days and nights the oil lamp miraculously burned when the Jewish people, after war with the Maccabeen army, reclaimed their temple in Jerusalem. Prayers, family unity, singing, games, and feasts bring joy to those celebrating Hanukkah.

SOLSTICE: Nature’s Winter Season begins this year with a special alignment of Jupiter and Saturn with the Sun to form a huge star! Watch for this special celestial event on December 21.

CHRISTMAS: The December 25th holiday celebrates of the birth or “nativity”of Jesus Christ, the Lord of the Christian faith, beloved as the Son of God. Now Christmas, a word meaning “Christian Mass,” has traditions of church observances, feasting, gift-giving, caroling, St. Nicholas’ reindeer ride and his comical elves in the North Pole. Gifts to others are symbolic of the gifts of the Wise Men to Jesus in the humble birthplace of the Christian Messiah.

KWANZA: The seven day holiday created in 1966 to honor African culture, heritage, and harvest with celebrations of family, community, faith, work, creativity, unity, and self determination ~ seven values corresponding to seven core principles, symbolized with seven candles. From December 26th - January 1st, with a feast on the sixth day.

HAPPY HEALTHY NEW YEAR 2021!
Oh Yeah! After the most challenging year, 2020, we hope you, your family, and loved ones and all are healthy, safe, and well. It is time for a New Year and new beginnings. Bring it on January 1st! Cheers. We need it.

SUGGESTED VIEWING AND ACTIVITIES OVER THE HOLIDAYS:

1. Watch “The Christmas Carol,” by Charles Dickens and “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

2. Cook up holiday treats and a feast with the whole family.

3. Share homemade treats with elder neighbors or needy families.

4. Many need our warm clothing so we can pass along thick sweaters, coats, and gloves.

5. Listen to these famous Christmas songs that were written by Jewish composers:

• The Christmas Song
• Santa Claus is Coming to Town
• I’ll Be Home for Christmas
• Let It Snow!
• White Christmas
• Rockin’ Round the Christmas Tree
• Winter Wonderland
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
• Sleigh Ride
• Santa Baby

6. Also listen to James Taylor singing a beautiful Christmas song “Some Children See Him,” about how children see Jesus in their own color image.

7. Watch and follow on-line meditation and chi-gong classes. Lino’s doing online VA Yoga with Desert Storm Veteran, Yoga Pete!

8. Try Jane’s wonderful, spicy steamed cake (See enclosed.)

9. Sleep more! (See our Good Sleep articles.)

10. Watch your favorite holiday movies…need we suggest? What do you recommend?

A DELICIOUS HOLIDAY
STEAMED CAKE RECIPE

HOLIDAY STEAMED ENGLISH PUDDING (CAKE)

Steamed Pudding is a classic English Victorian-Era dessert. (The British call desserts “puddings.”) This rich, moist cake is very delicious, especially in the winter with its warming spices. Healthy sweet, orange-colored vegetables are added, along with rich nuts and nutritious dried fruits. Steaming makes the cake very moist. It is fun to make and the whole family can take part in its preparation. You might want to sing, “Oh bring us some figgy pudding” from the olde carole! Jolly good! Let us know how yours comes out!
LINK TO RECIPE >

Let us pray as one with all of humanity for universal love and peace on earth.
– Michio Kushi

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
– Helen Keller*

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.
– Albert Einstein

The Secret of Life is Honesty and Fair Dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve go it made. – Groucho Marks

* HELEN KELLER lost her sight and hearing as a young child, yet, with the assistance of her teacher, Anne Sullivan, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Radcliffe College, traveled to 35 countries, met presidents, wrote 12 books, and campaigned for human rights. Watch the Oscar winning movie MIRACLE WORKER!

OUR JANUARY NEWSLETTER will include:

FITNESS TIPS by Extraordinary Macrobiotic Teachers and Friends
PANDEMIC COPING SKILLS by Macro Teachers
PROVEN POWER OF CHEWING WELL
JUMP FOR JOY with REBOUNDING

STAY SAFE AND WELL THIS HOLIDAY SEASON AND INTO 2021!

Follow healthy holiday gathering guidelines! Eat carefully, enjoy your holiday food, outdoor recreation, fresh air, and positivity. At our home, we plan to play music, dance, contact far away friends, do some zooming and grateful meditation on being alive.

Let us be grateful for our birth on this planet with intelligence and wisdom, and let us vow with all to realize endlessly our eternal dream of One Peaceful World through health, freedom, love, and justice. – Michio Kushi

LOVE, HUGS, and HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Jane and Lino

SPECIAL THANKS ...
We would like to deeply thank Debi Athos of Asheville, our newsletter technical genius, dear friend, Mother, Grandmom, and passionate activist for organics, bees, and Non GMO’s. She and her husband Tom co-founded Organicfest and Natural Lifestyles Online Market way before health foods went corporate. The two have provided healthful food, advice, and inspiration to innumerable persons through the years, counseling, encouraging, and explaining endless recipes to customers. If you have utilized Debi’s expertise, let her know how grateful you are also. It will make her year!
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