Higher Ground; Pindoctor Show 3

Hello!
I've just returned from a successful trip to Tanzania to summit Kilimanjaro. What a fantastic time and place! I highly recommend it. Our trip was cybercast (alpineascents.com) which made it fun for people to follow along. Kind of like this blog...we can see the successes and good attempts and what were you thinkings of our colleagues. We had fantastic, albeit cold and windy weather, but the expedition after ours didn't make the summit due to 70 mph winds and sleet battering them at high camp.

I've been climbing long enough and doing acupuncture long enough (8 years) to know that sometimes you don't make it to the top and rarely do you make it to the top alone. In Tanzania we chose the Swahili word "harambe" for our team name. It means something like "together we can accomplish our goal; teamwork." And, magically, our entire group of ten summited together, which rarely happens.

What I learned from this experience is that I can't do CA alone in my practice as I have been trying to do. I've been stuck in expensive-lease-land (akin to being battered by 70 mph winds) but have thankfully been offered a chance to join Minnesota Community Acupuncture this summer. (After careful review of my rider--no brown M&Ms please--I hope Kerri brings me on).

So the concept of harambe is a great theme for all of us to keep in mind in many life situations, not just acupuncture or climbing. Here's to a great new year and continued harambe at CAN!

ps...Of course I brought my needles along on the climb and they were essential to helping everything from altitude sickness, digestive woooooo, sore knees, and Liver Qi stagnation in a certain few. Harambe! If you're waiting to pull needles and have a minute, here's my pics: http://gallery.mac.com/matssexton#100008

pss...the 3rd episode of The Pindoctor Show is up. I sing, we dance, painful.....www.thepindoctorshow.com

Mats Sexton

(edit- Skip: Here's the link to the Pindoctor site:

http://web.mac.com/matssexton/Pindoctor_Show/Check-In_Desk.html

I was having trouble having the show run to the end (probably because I have no technical abilities) so I watched it on You Tube. Here's the link there:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+pindoctor+show&search=Se...