2/25/12

Mindful Storage



New spice racks in cupboard to replace old shelf on the wall that threw spice containers at your head whenever you tried to take one off.

2/23/12

Slide Journal

Chapter 12 in Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad:



Free presentation software for Mac:  NeoOffice


My first journal slide: 

2/22/12

Mindful Eating Insights

First day of Lenten practice of Mindful Eating reveals:
  • I get bored when I just eat without doing something else, too.  
    • That's a really privileged problem.  People without enough food value every morsel that passes their lips.  If I didn't have too much to eat, I wouldn't get bored with it.
  • I've learned to turn off much of my attention while eating because I'm so physically hypersensitive to textures, etc.
    • The fried eggs being a little too runny really bothered me this morning.
  • Years of having to eat every 3 hours to keep my blood sugar up whether I was interested in eating right then or not has ingrained in me the habit of eating for fuel's sake only—"Let's just shove it in and get it over with."
    • Is it wrong sometimes to just view food as fuel and not something to be savored bite by bite?
  • A 40+ year habit of eating fast is really hard to break.