Every time she ate, it was like she was chewing her cud and eventually her rumination got on my nerves.  I was the dietitian who was hired to treat her Rumination Disorder.  Everything that she put in her mouth seemed to need another cycle of chewing.  Her significant weight loss brought her into the hospital where she was treated for malnutrition, and I administered a high-calorie tube feeding formula, which seemed to help.  I realized that her condition was much more serious when I heard her making mooing noises.  This is a rather uncommon condition, but King Nebuchadnezzar was driven into the fields and he ate grass for seven years after he was humbled by God for boasting about his achievements.  People can suffer from a psychological disorder called Boanthropy that makes them believe that they are a cow.  They try to live their life as a cow.

Written for Stine…

We are human beings, not human doings. A friend said this to me many years ago. I was bemoaning the fact that I was more of an observer, less of a participant.

We all have a part to play, it takes all types.

Some are exalted and fly high above the rest, draped in fine metals and materials, imbibing only the finest ingredients.

The rest of us struggle along, day by trundling day. Middling awareness, most of us, finding joy where we can.

Some drag knuckles even lower still, oblivious to what they’re missing, because the struggle is real, and the prize is survival.

No time to play. Nor luxury to observe. Human beings in a very real sense

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