This month’s update is about directly participating in the awakening of spring by having the experience of being able to grow something that you can eat... without waiting until the harvest. And remembering how easy it is to provide
yourself and your family with one of the most potent and least expensive
superfoods available.
Those of you who pick up food from us
on Wednesdays will receive a small surprize - a packet of red clover and radish seeds, which will finally put those empty juicing jars to good use.
If you are reading this somewhere
far, far away, you can certainly pick up some sprouting seeds at your natural
foods store, through the websites listed in the recipe section or even local
farmers market - and join us.
The point of this month’s ‘recipe’ is
to give you the experience of discovering how much time it takes to supplement
your ‘menu’ with the foods that are alive, whole and self-grown.
Of course when you have no time,
there are sprouts to be purchased, but I believe it is important to know that
you can do certain things yourself. Then
you have a choice instead of feeling dependent or stuck.
When I work with people who want to
change their food choices, we seldom ever start talking about food or
recipes. People find me when they are
ready to transform all aspects of their lives and I begin a conversation with
them that encourages them to begin to become aware of what they are taking in -
consuming. One of those conversations
just happens to be about food, but our shared intention is to identify the
things that enter them through all of their ‘mouths’ - eyes, ears, nose, etc.
It is important to recognize that by
the time food is going past your lips, the choice of what you are eating was
made a long, long time ago.
It is fairly inaccurate to think that
the choice is separate, independent like a stand-alone server. The framework and the impetus of your choices
reflect so many other choices … and so many other choices… that you’ve already
made. So when you experience the flavor and smell of what lands on you palate,
it becomes an opportunity to consider when and where and possibly why you began
to narrow your menu that now lives, most likely, in your refrigerator, your
pantry, or perhaps grazing or pecking in your backyard.
These are all choices - whether we
believe that we had the freedom to chose or not. Nevertheless, it might be
overwhelming to consider that we do have that much choice. Sometimes it hard to conceive of such great
power - I’m sure all of you know that Nelson Mandela/Marianne Williamson quote
about fearing our power. This is just
another take on that.
Our experiences are the sum total of
all of our choices and vice versa; its sometimes tricky to know which came
first. Thus when I consult with folks, I
guide our conversations to see what pair of glasses we are looking through and
I invite them to wonder if there is freedom to try on another pair of glasses
or simply clean and polish the current ones.
As we polish the lenses there is often a relief that we can see more
than we thought.
Naturally, our framework expands and
so does our capacity to see and round and round we can go. Then, with more room inside our heads, we can
push the ‘furniture’ around into an arrangement that suits us even more which
then influences how we choose to nourish ourselves.
So have fun - I’m just glad we figured out what to do with
those empty juice jars while they wait to be refilled.
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