Stranger at Lowe's Home Improvement Store

8/17/2011, Wed

A Glow at Lowe's

The crossing of the path

I was looking for a bi-fold door for our apartment one Wednesday afternoon at Lowe's Home Improvement Store in Lincolnwood, Illinois when I stumbled on this Asian-looking lady. She was on something for her home or domicile I figured because she drifted her gaze on an item on the shelf. My direction was geared for some cleaning items for our house. This woman's right hand picked up a baking soda with a tag price of $0.88 cents for her old refrigerator. My intuition prodded me to politely tell this woman that baking soda in the  Aldi food store cost only half of that price. And I opened the idea of savings to her that there is a cheap way to clean our kidneys and parsley can do it. Then a Lowe's salesperson passed by and I asked him if he is familiar with this parsley herb of which he positively and confidently said that it is true. He knew it as he was in the Orient for a number of years. And that herbs are very good for our health; even going to the extent of giving the address where herbal medicines are sold. ( Parsley is a herb with crinkled green leaves. )

Parsley for cleaning your kidney.

On a clean pot filled with potable water boil the parsley for ten minutes. Let it cool before transferring the boiled water of parsley to a bottled container and put it in the refrigerator. To clean your kidney you have to drink a glass of that boiled parsley water daily. With that routine, you'll experience a totally different physical world. Being a slave to good habits leads you to the road of healthy success. And healthy success is what you eat or drink or think which is supplied by Mother Nature and not provided by drug stores. Today is the propitious time to like and love the abundance that Mother Nature avails.

Place matters not

As familiarity took hold of the moment's meeting, this woman said that she is a Thai and she sure recognized me where I came from. Was that, she stammered... Manila? I replied, no but I came from the second largest island, Mindanao near Borneo. Manila is on the largest island, Luzon. Anyway, its in the Philippines.

Matter doesn't age

The conversation continued and touched a delicate subject which is about the numbers of stay on this planet. I told her that I was retired for a number of years. She almost fainted. She looked for a place to sit. How did you do it, came the question? Looking at my head, she noticed something that caught her attention. Ah, yes- the big ears which are a sign of long life. "Well", I said, "that depends entirely on you. Habits, attitude, gratitude, prayer." Oh, she replied, Hail Mary... I knew that as I went to a Catholic school because it has a very good education. The subject matters trickled into scholastic performance. She mentioned her masters and doctorate degrees. That she has also taken journalism in her country. She asked me what highest scholastic attainment I have achieved. Humbly, I told her I have taken master subjects too and hang out with press and radio people but what I did not reveal is of my being a "sum-suman san laude" graduate of the University of Hard Knocks and a member of the defunct " Toastmo-naut club." Remember- astronaut, cosmonaut?

An Epilogue

Somebody has said:
" Happiness keeps you sweet; trials keep you strong. Sorrows keep you human; failures keep you humble. Success keeps you glowing but only God keeps you going!"

Until we meet again. Have a wonderful day!