bare minimum

Sometimes you don’t really need a doctor or some pills or a website tip to heal you. Sometimes, all you need to do is ask a hippie. I’ve been feeling a little ill for the last 3-4 days but was really sick with diarrhea this weekend. So I cut out of my hostel and came back to my office/house to sleep and have easy access to a clean toilet. After feeling a little better, I went back to the hostel last night and people asked where I had been. I told them about nursing my little stomach and diarrhea all weekend. And one hippie said… “O, the diarrhea of the new moon… everyone has been sick this weekend with the diarrhea of the new moon. I know at least 6 other people”. Well, of course! How could it not be related to the moon? Why did I never think of that? In all my helplessness and feeling so alone and sick over the weekend, I forgot that sometimes talking to a good hippie can take away all your troubles.

Someone then made some teas she had bought at the Museum of Mayan Medicine and we all watched a movie and drank our bitter medicine and felt like we were still of this world.