Ice and Shane

Day 84
RAW
242 lbs

Wednesday

1-17-07


ICICLES


Well, today was a cold and wet day. Which resulted in a little ice this morning, just enough to close the schools and keep us home all morning. Astrid watched for snow late into the night last night and this morning awoke to tiny ice cycles ripe for the picking! The were strung across our house "like Christmas lights" and it was THE MOST EXCITING THING! So we bundled up and gathered as many as we could find, having then melt almost as soon as we touched them. She saved a few in a baggy in the freezer. Do not tell her they melted before re freezing, lets just leave that between us.





In the evening, I had a meeting up at Taft and which I cooked for. I made spelt pasta with the raw pesto sauce with a big greek salad. The pasta turned out only OK, mostly because I overcooked it. Oh well!





SHANE CLAIBORNE AND MLK


After the meeting was an event I have been looking forward to. Shane Claiborne came and spoke a little and then answered questions at Ecclesia. He told a lot of stories I have heard before, but they are the kind of stories you love to hear... "Tell me again about what the bishop in Iraq told you about Christianity".





Shane is the author of an amazing book called The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an ordinary radical. This is on my to do list for living, so any words I can hear from him, I will listen. He also has formed an intentional community called the simple way in Philadelphia and it is the community we at Ecclesia are looking at to see what this could look like for us.





OK, so I listened. One of the things that struck me, is he said that they live on $250 a month each. OK so, I am hoping he said a week, but I am pretty sure he said a month. I guess for my family that would be $1000 and would be doable. But, the idea of raw foods on that would be hard. Not impossible, just hard. Easy if you garden... starting a garden goes higher on my list almost every day. I usually have an herb garden, but it has all finally gone to seed for the winter. It alone saves me a lot of money, esp when I have cilantro in it. I buy cilantro weekly! So, a full garden would be an amazing savings. One of the top goals of the community we are looking into building here would be a community garden, so it makes a lot of sense to start. And the truth is I love to garden. I love to dig in the dirt, I love the smell and the feeling of it. I have always loved it. It is hard to believe I do not have a garden here, because I remember having apartments with a tiny patch of dirt and always having some kind of garden. And when I lived in Indiana and had a big yard and a giant garden with compost and all. It is always about money. That is what holds us back from most everything. And what is strange is it seems like the more money we make, the more this seems to be the case. The worse it gets. Things definitely need to change. And I feel like this kind of living would be so freeing, which I guess is weird to most people... since I guess it seems like a restrictive way to live. It is much like that with Raw foods, it seems restricting, but it is very freeing.





Today I happened to listen to an old recording of a speech by Martin Luther King. No, not that one... This one was given a few days after he renounced the Vietnam war, and very close to his death. What is strange is tonight, Shane quoted from the same speech. Pretty cool huh? Isn't that strange how you can go your whole life not hearing something and then come upon it twice in one day? Coincidence, well that is not what I choose to believe. It was God. :)





OH YEAH RAW FOODS





From theoretical to functional in 2.2 seconds. I am a mom!





I had a grilled cheese sandwich today. It was on sprouted bread, but it still had gluten and I used rice cheese. I really wanted a grilled cheese! I used the non hydrogenated flax seed oil margarine I bought to make the icing for the cupcakes. It tasted really good, I made one for my dad and he said "that tastes like a grilled cheese sandwich should". BUT, it sat in my stomach... like a rock. I think this is the first bread I have had in months and clunk, it sat.. It kind of started to make a peculating feeling in there and then felt like it was spoiling inside, I could feel it. I do not know if this was from being a very cooked food or if it was from the gluten??? But, yeah, not fresh and good feeling like I have become used to. This was the most cooked day I have had in like a month or maybe longer. I can certainly feel the difference. Mostly in ways I choose not to describe... I give way to much personal information on this as it is. I gave my weight out for gosh sakes! Speaking of which the weight is still staying the same. Like a stubborn cat on top of your favorite book. I am about to yell and stomp and raise a stink to get that scale to go on and move!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!