Julie G’s Reviews > Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy: A True Story of Discovery, Acting, Health, Illness, Recovery, and Life > Status Update

Grandma was right: "Without your health, you have nothing." As with the individual, so also with a nation: when its people's health is bankrupt, there is no future.

We should go back to the ways of the ancient Chinese: family doctors were paid only as long as the family stayed healthy. When a person became sick, the doctor's payment ceased until he cured his patient. Do you pay your auto mechanic for failing to fix your engine's misfiring? Only doctors. The spell they hold over the American public is beyond belief.

Men control the stock market, advance ticket sales to the Super Bowl, savings and loan bailouts. Men create havoc. But women have the power of procreation, connection to the continuum of the universe, the creation of world harmony, healthy, happiness, and order.

It is from those who know us best and love us most dearly that we have the most to fear as we struggle to follow our own road.

How many of you have shared the dream of this Kamikaze Cowboy to be free of all cravings? Could it possibly be that this paragon of nature, this quintessential creation of God who has walked the moon, built the pyramids, discovered nuclear energy, is a slave to a dish of ice cream?

No longer looking for love, I was now cooking for love.