setting the stage

on the foundational stuff of health

This image, and all others within this essay, attributable to St. Hildegard of Bingen.

One would be hard pressed to find people in our societies not addicted, or at the very least, misusing some sort of substance(s) as a coping mechanism. There are the obvious ones, of course, drugs and alcohol which are accepted as addictions. Cigarettes, too. More and …