Tinged Pink: When The Cancer Narrative Can't Compass Your Loss

OnMilwaukee.com Dining: Kallas Honey sweetens local business

Oh, Julia, I said, I'm crying. Later, I had to look up Stage IV. I cried all over Wikipedia. When I saw her in early autumnI was living in Geneva, she was still in Londonshe was as beautiful as ever, but also skinnier than ever, all bones when I hugged her. She wanted to see Eckhart Tolle when he was in town but she worried she wouldn't have the energy. She giddily told me she was "getting downloads from the goddess." I didn't know what that meant, but I trusted it was a good thing. We had talked about feeling closer to spirit in the midst of hard timesI was leaving my marriage, and meditation was getting me through the day. Spirit aside, her cough was worse, and nothing could make it stopnot the water I offered to get her from the kitchen, not the tea she had brewing, not the juices she made us that afternoon.
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"We specialize in small orders. We've carved out our niche." Kallas does not use any filtering agents or additives in its honey. "It's what we don't do that makes us different from other companies," says Kallas. "Larger companies might pack the honey in October and it might not be in the grocery store until February, so it has to be processed a lot more heavily to ensure it's still in liquid state when it hits the shelves. Our honey is always fresh, so we don't have to worry about that." Kallas' most popular honey is the white / clover honey 99 percent of which is from Wisconsin. The company offers seven other honeys, including orange blossom, cranberry blossom, blueberry, sunflower, alfalfa, wildflower and buckwheat. Kallas also offers natural, raw honey. A lot has been written about the homeopathic properties of honey, which has contributed to a boost in sales. Because honey has antimicrobial properties, many people as well as physicians have used it for relief from allergies, hay fever, athlete's foot, facial scrubs, salves and even on deep puncture wounds. "I'm not going to suggest if you step on a rusty nail you should take your honey bear and squirt some in there, but there are folks doing that," says Kallas. Kallas strives to educate people about honey to clear up misconceptions. "Despite what some people say, honey is not bee poop," says Kallas. "Honey comes back up the same way it goes in. It's not digested by bees, rather it's stored in a separate stomach.
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