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Healthy Food

Eating In

A friend gave us brussel sprouts still on the stem – so fun:) It’s not bitter at all when so fresh. It’s been so long since I’ve eaten at a restaurant … but honestly … while I do want the restaurants to survive this and all the small businesses to survive this period, it’s a good time to keep busy by paying more attention to how we nourish ourselves. It’s a very wierd time where there’s so much abundance back to back with so much scarcity … There’s scarcity in our energy level and delights as worries and fear weigh us down – Just eating simple and cutting down on energy sucking foods and thoughts. All we can do is to be as well prepared as we can be; and dream and plan for that day when we leave the four walls and step outside fully liberated from this time of ultra vigilence from threats we cannot see. I cannot wait for that day of liberation.

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Beautiful People

To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only see the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places – and there are so many – where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

And is we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinate succession of presnts, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in difiance of all that is bad around us, is itslef a marvelous victory.

– Howard Zinn

Hopefull for this new year to be that where we are reminded of all the goodness not just the bad and the negatives. It’s hard when things appear to be getting rough … but still we have to: Keep hope alive by practicing compassion, sacrifice, courage and … kindness.

What is your new year’s resolution?

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Beautiful Rituals Healthy Food

Anything Goes 2021 first day

Non-Traditional

Nigori = Cloudy Sake to clear out and wash away 2020 – welcome 2021 !