On my way to Barcelona

Ok, Christmas is gone and I keep hearing people complaining about their lunches and dinners because they had too much food but "hey, it's Christmas, you have to eat until you burst". Well, no! You don't. I mean, you have to do so many things you don't like in your life all through the year, the holidays should be an important moment when you rest, spend time with your family and finally get to do what you like. How can you let things get between you and your freedom even when you have a choice? I don't get it.
I spent 4 days fasting during Christmas and I liked it. No regrets, no pain and no complaints. I am so happy of what I did that I'm going to do it again in the next few days but not before I come back from Barcelona. I mean, I'm going south towards a wonderful city where I'll find some of the best fruits and veggies in all Europe, how could I be fasting? Food has got to be a pleasure and fasting too. So I'm about to go now, me my friends, my car a didgeridoo and a disco armonico (like a hangdrum). I'm really happy to go because I'll be doing what I love most (playing and travelling) with the people I love in a fruity European capital city. I'll be posting some pics, promise! Ta-da

Anise sprouts and pizza

Today I spent a very relaxed day and I made pizza. It wasn't 100 percent raw because I'm still waiting for a food dehydrator I bought online so I did something acceptable for my standards which was a very thin pizza with whole wheat flour, cooked for a few minutes at 120ºC. After the base was ready I put a layer of raw tomato sauce and over that sliced eggplant, mushrooms, peppers, olives and herbs all raw and fresh. The result was this:

I found it better than ordinary pizza but my taste has changed dramatically in the last few months so I can only suggest you try it for yourself, I can post the whole recipe upon request. Then I went to visit my grandparents and when I got back home I saw that the anise seeds are finally sprouting after 3 days. I went there to throw them out because I thought they would be rancid and with great surprise and pleasure I noticed the first sprouts so I gave them water to encourage growth. I hope they taste good but here is how they look in the jar:

The way back

I went through hard times in my life,  like most of us,  and I tried to fight my way out of the darkest hours when I was younger. And when I say fight I mean literally,  even if my fights were mainly with walls or hard surfaces rather than with people. I'm not saying this out of pride or for some nostalgic feelings but because yesterday something weird happened to me. Yesterday it was very cold and I had slept less than usual so I couldn't find a way to keep myself warm other than my car heating system, so I kept it at maximum temperature. As the air went through the vents and crushed on my hands,  I was feeling it burning my knuckles because it was way too hot and all of a sudden I thought that I had to direct the vents away from my hands because they were wounded for punching a wall. I knew where the wounds were without looking at them and I could feel them, the only problem was that my hands weren't wounded at all. It was a memory of something that happened to me a few years ago,  on September of 2007. But it didn't feel like a simple memory because yesterday I could feel those wounds as if they were really there. I'm having a lot of experiences like this one,  lately. It all started with my detoxification which happened after I changed the way I was eating, after I started following the natural hygiene schemes. I feel as if the toxins that are melting away were holding pieces of information that are now running free through my blood stream and that my body can recognize and decode as memories, but more vivid and real than usual memories. Of course I'm not talking of deja vu or deja veçu, this is something else. Plus they're going backwards, in chronological order as if the toxins that are melting away now were older than the ones that did so a few weeks ago. Now I'm really curious to find out where this way back leads in the end.

First off

This is my first post on this blog. I haven't had a blog for ages but now I feel this need to write and share so here we are!

I've uploaded a picture of what I see in front of me while I'm sitting on my chair in my house in Massaua. I won't be spending much more time in this place because I have become a raw food-ist and I wanna grow some fruits and veggies which thing is impossible in here because there is no garden, balconies or anything, just walls and windows, and it's not enough for me anymore.

Why this horrible picture? Because I'm extremely lazy at the moment and it's because I had a giga raw dinner. Vegan raw if you're asking, I stopped eating animals and their milk or eggs in July and began eating raw in September for my health mainly. I was healthy already, but I thought I could be healthier and prevent many diseases with this for me new way of eating. What I didn't know is the suffering that comes with it. Let me be clear: I don't miss meat at all, nor milk or pasta, even if I did in the very first weeks. Fact is when you eat junk food, dairies, meat,  drink milk, coffee, use sugars, salt,  meds and most of your food is cooked,  and when you do all of this for 26 years, your body stores a lot of junk which intoxicate it. When you stop the wrong habits all of a sudden and all at the same time your body is finally free to take the garbage out, but,  in order to do it, it needs to let all the toxins go through the blood stream first and that's where the pain begins. With all those toxins in the blood it's like being poisoned and it takes a while before you're clean again. In the mean time you're weak, ugly, stinky and depressed, or at least that's what I've gone through for the first 6 weeks. 6 weeks can be a lot of time when even singing is too much to handle, especially if you're a singer. But it was worth it because now I can afford to sleep less being stronger all the time, I can clean my skin and hair with water only and both my skin and hair feel better and look better. And smell better! I don't need any perfume, nothing! I know it sounds weird and I can assure you I had to take a shower every day and shampoo my hair every two days, I was a very clean person, and still am. It's just now I don't need any chemical to clean myself, just water! Not to mention my health: every fall I got a very heavy cold with fever. And this happened every year until this year. Now I can breathe normally like in summer even if it's freezing outside and this morning I took a long walk in the woods with a bare chest, no t shirt or anything! Everyone was wearing storm jackets downtown and I was only wearing my trousers in the countryside. If you want to understand better what I'm talking about read Arnold Ehret and Shelton. Raw food and fasting can help you heal from any disease even cancer and diabetes!