pimg class=”alignright” title=”Fasting Meal” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/plate.jpg” alt=”plate” width=”319″ height=”254″ /strong#8220;When a person has nothing to eat, fasting is the smartest thing he could do.#8221; #8211; Herman Hesse, emSiddhartha./em/strong/p
pI like that quote. It#8217;s making (non-caloric) lemonade out of lemons, and for all the transcendental insights contained in a title=”Amazon.com: Siddhartha” href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1613822014/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8amp;tag=marsdaiapp07-20amp;linkCode=as2amp;camp=1789amp;creative=390957amp;creativeASIN=1613822014″ target=”_blank”Hesse#8217;s book/a, this line strikes me as a really cool, no-nonsense way to make the best out of a bad situation. No doubt about that. But how useful is it, really, to today#8217;s readers? Very few of us ever have #8220;nothing to eat.#8221; On the contrary, food is ever at our beck and call, with very little effort required to obtain it. Actually, that#8217;s not completely true. Processed junk and fast food is readily available, while the good stuff #8211; fresh meat and veggies, actual, you know, emfood /em- requires prep work, cooking, time, and the doing of dishes. But the main point stands: […]

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