Prohibition

By Scott Coulter My wife has been in Ohio for the past week, and one of my fill-in companions has been Netflix. There are a few shows we both want to catch up on, so I've avoided those series so we can watch them together when she returns. Instead, I've been browsing around in search of interesting fill-in material. And last night I came across Ken Burns' documentary on Prohibition in the US. I've always been a sucker for documentaries, so I settled in for the night and watched most of the series. The central moral of the story, to me, was one of balance and moderation. All of the intertwined stories and conflicts that led to Prohibition had this theme in common: reaction and counterreaction, always pushing back with too much force and swinging the pendulum far beyond the balance point, only to have it come back with even more force. Living with diabetes, I am intimately familiar with reaction and counterreaction, predictable and manageable fluctuations and fluctuations that are swinging beyond the bounds of control. All of us Diabetians are students of balance, and we have a deep, kinesthetic, ingrained understanding of it. And all of this brought me back to a thought I had many years ago, when I was still in high school. Diabetes, pain and setbacks aside, offers us insight. Moderation and the art of balance Most people who don't really understand diabetes see it as, well, a form of prohibition. How many times has someone we know summed up our condition with the following s...
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