An empty glass jar stoically stares me in the face. I look for a glint of compassion and tenderness in the grooves at the top of its glimmering Body but find none. It reflects the light back at me with a wink as if to say 'Oh yeah buddy, it's about that time'.

That would be my Blessed Herbs glass shaker jar in the little scene above. We've become quite close over the years and as I face another beginning to my annual cleanse I resign myself to the inevitable: this is not going to be easy.

For those of you who don't know I'm talking about the Blessed Herbs Colon and Internal Cleanse that I've done for a couple of years and am about to embark on again. As far as detoxes/cleanses go none compare to this one. It is the Grand Imperial Empress of all that is in the Universe of detoxifying and I can't imagine not doing it at least once a year.

To be honest, it astonishes me that people would not be mandated to undergo this process or at least something similar. Look, as you probably know, I am one very very healthy cutie pie who takes a vigilant approach to my well being. I know every ingredient on every label, food, cosmetic, product, you name it. I work out do the yoga thing eat organic have all the water filters etcetera tera tarara boomabayay. Yet as healthy as I am I know that it's imperative that I incorporate something of this magnitude into my regimen.

We live in a toxic world. A highly toxic world. Every day we are bombarded by it and offered many opportunities to have it enter our system. Our air is irradiated and sprayed with chemicals that look like clouds. Our water is full of death. Our foods are laced with so much junk it's a wonder they don't glow. Unless you're a Raw Foodist who lives in an untainted part of Hawaii or something you're gonna be subjected to this caca whether you want to or not.

Now, let's be clear, the seat of your health is in your gut. That's where it starts. If your gut is healthy along with your kidneys and liver you're most likely not going to get sick or diseased. The problems arise when these parts of your system get so gunked up with the foods and junk inherent in the modern world that your body has no choice but to send the toxins to other parts of your body in order to flush them out. More often than not the skin is the unlucky recipient which is why most people's skin is full of blemishes and snaps cracks and ping pong poppers.

I'll be honest, I don't care how hot your body is if you're a babe, if you got skin issues I want nothing to do with you sexually. Major turn off. In almost all cases it means you eat crap. If you eat crap you're not gonna taste yummy namean? Also, big drinker? No bueno, you'll definitely taste...different. Smoker? Next!

Anyway, again, I wish everyone I knew did this cleanse. It's that powerful. I am constantly complimented on how good I look for my age and I know that having this now be a bullet in my health holster is going to support that truth for many years to come.

So as I take my first step today in my cleansing process I post my first blog of the new year. I've taken to blogging as much as I can during these cleanses and I look to being able to be as active as I can in that regard. I've got lots going on in my life right now, extremely exciting, so even if I only drip a couple of paragraphs onto here it'll be better than nothing.

Well, I'm about to take my first toxin absorber...sigh...here we go!