steadily skipping stones

Apr 14

the Infinite Monkey speaks: on the eater and eaten

Random brilliance from across the blogosphere…

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The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared or fast food, confronts a platter covered with inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground, pulped, strained, blended, prettified, and sanitized beyond resemblance to any part of any creature that ever lived. The products of nature and agriculture have been made, to all appearances, the products of industry. Both eater and eaten are thus in exile from biological reality. And the result is a kind of solitude, unprecedented in human experience, in which the eater may think of eating as, first, a purely commercial transaction between him and a supplier and then as a purely appetitive transaction between him and his food.

– Wendell Berry

from:

The Pleasures of Eating

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Apr 13

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Rise and Shine!

You guys! We slept so late today.

1pm late.

I guess I needed all that sleep, but I hate losing the morning.

And the afternoon, since I haven’t done a darn thing since I got up.

But I do feel way better now. It’s been a long, tough week, and sometimes you just need to decompress a bit.

And sleep 12 hours.

So are you ever getting up or what?

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When was the last time you slept super duper late?

♦

Apr 11

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different all at once

I haven’t posted to my photo blog in a long time. I haven’t been feeling very connected to my camera in these last few months. But spring is upon us – to the tune of 80 degree days that came out of nowhere. And this post reminded me that I don’t have to focus on every aspect of my life all at once.

If My Eyes Were Cameras