tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8242607046370799447.post8636816453101217586..comments2011-01-06T17:45:49.644-08:00Comments on Hoot Hoot Woof: The Adventures of Owlet Oh: House-y Things and a RambleThe Little Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09450168091988981195noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8242607046370799447.post-66769093608222542862010-12-03T15:55:02.534-08:002010-12-03T15:55:02.534-08:00I shall come bearing sugar and flour!I shall come bearing sugar and flour!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17537718626901161668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8242607046370799447.post-54770066107275564812010-12-01T13:55:02.498-08:002010-12-01T13:55:02.498-08:00Not Fyodor! He eats cheesy nachos while believing ...Not Fyodor! He eats cheesy nachos while believing that all his friends secretly eat cheesy nachos. <br /><br />Food can be a funny place for moral struggles. I usually have them when I'm divvying up portions of food. I eat the smallest, not to be moral, but to have relief from thinking about the moral struggle. But the tummy doesn't seem to care one way or another. (at least I can still distinguish the truth "within" me, hohoho) I've read that food is where we learn to "identify" ourselves with things/ideas/feelings. We embrace the food as Roy-ish or Emily-ish when we eat it. So maybe part of it is not wanting to be nacho-cheese-girl or bigger-portion-boy. <br /><br />Those are some tasty sounding meals, I wish I was going with Sam. Here is a pretty poem to supplement your cheesy reflections ;P<br /><br />ON A THEME FROM NICOLAS OF CUSA <br /><br />When soul and body feed, one sees <br />Their differing physiologies. <br />Firmness of apple, fluted shape <br />Of celery, or tight-skinned grape <br />I grind and mangle when I eat, <br />Then in dark, salt, internal heat, <br />Annihilate their natures by <br />The very act that makes them I. <br /><br />But when the soul partakes of good <br />Or truth, which are her savoury food, <br />By some far subtler chemistry <br />It is not they that change, but she, <br />Who feels them enter with the state <br />Of conquerors her opened gate, <br />Or, mirror-like, digests their ray <br />By turning luminous as they. -CSLRoynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8242607046370799447.post-37722240068367620432010-12-01T11:40:13.822-08:002010-12-01T11:40:13.822-08:00Eggs with no ketchup are often made quite nice wit...Eggs with no ketchup are often made quite nice with salt and pepper. :)<br /><br />I think it's good you're being introspective about your food eating, lovie. I'm trying to do that too--find out when and why I began my own conflicted relationship with food.<br /><br />That said, however, sometimes it's good to just enjoy the weird things we like. Nacho cheese for example. If you don't think of it as "bad" and allow yourself to enjoy it when you want to, you might find you crave it less.<br /><br />We'll talk more of course. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com