When You Fast

Let's call the last month or so a sabbatical shall we? I'm feeling a little less pulled in a ll directions and have founf time to slow down (correction: made time!). What wonders a little fasting and soul-searching will do for you. I still feel the need to get out into nature for a bit, but hopefully that will happen this weekend.

It's amazing how much better everything seems so far this week after a weekend of goign without. Not only food, but everything seems to have a truer quality to it. We live is such a culture of instant gratification that everything is special and desirable and so nothing is. I mean we have access to everything from apples to ecuadorian magic fire fruit and from fire pits to thermal injection fooderacacycles. But if you take the time to withdraw from instant gratification everything becomes brighter, even the otherwise mundane things of life like cracks in a sidewalk or old beat-up tercels or even, for instance, third-rate lattes at an unnamed post secondary institution's student activity center.

I think I'm definitely going to incorporate fasting as a regular part of each week. It's too valuable to avoid.

"When you fast..."