“The reason we grow old is because we see other people aging and dying.”

“I gained thirty pounds in a month. I started to gain weight right after I fell down the stairs,” a woman told me. She had injured her right hip in the fall (a female trauma).

The accident happened while her son and her new daughter-in-law were on their honeymoon. She resented her new daughter-in-law, and swelled up in self-defense.

Aging is often blamed for weight gain, but the actual culprit is SHOCK (or a series of mini-shocks accumulated over the years). Shock causes hyperventilation (respiratory alkalosis through the loss of carbon dioxide), overloading the body with lactic acid … and blowing it up like a balloon in the process.

Pneumatic pressure drives hydraulic pressure, and not the other way around. A doctor checks the blood pressure in arteries and veins, but not the air pressure in the lungs.

84 percent of fat is exhaled as carbon dioxide. 16 percent of fat is excreted as water.

When Adano Ley (Swami Nitty-Gritty) was growing up in South America, his uncle took him to his cousin Cecelia’s gravesite to illustrate the perils of over-fastidiousness about the body’s natural biological processes. The grave bore the following epitaph …

“Fart Free, Fart Free / Wherever You May Be / For That Was the Death Of Cecilia Ley.”

“One of the old tales from the area’s early history recounts a group of rice farmers drilling for water at the site where Groves Elementary School stands today. To their great dismay, they struck oil at about 800 feet, so they filled in the well and went elsewhere for water. It is possible that if the group had realized the value of their discovery Groves, instead of Beaumont, would have had the distinction enjoyed by Spindletop today.”

Fay (Bourgeois) Salvagio — “Great memories and delicious food! When her grandson took it over, it wasn’t the same quality.”

“The city was named after pioneer developer Asa E. Groves, who arranged for hundreds of pecan trees to be planted throughout the original early-20th-century subdivision.

“The Texas Pecan Festival is held every October. This multi-day community tradition features carnival rides, food, and local pecan-baking contests.

“Located in Jefferson County near Port Arthur and Beaumont, Groves acts as a quiet, affordable residential hub for workers in the region’s heavy industrial and refinery corridor.”