What’s the point?

Posted by on Sep 13, 2011 in Reflection | Comments Off “A healthy body is a grace. It’s a cosmic and earthly gift. It might even be a privilege. Are you willing to use this gift to give back to the world? Can you see that the body is meant to serve a deeper and more beautiful purpose in life that’s more than just being pretty, skinny or healthy? Yes, it’s great to have personal goals, to feel good, to look the way we want, and...
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Breaking Surface

Posted by on Sep 12, 2011 in Reflection | 0 comments Let no one keep you from your journey, no rabbi or priest, no mother who wants you to dig for treasures she misplaced, no father who won’t let one life be enough, no lover who measures their worth by what you might give up, no voice that tells you in the night it can’t be done. Let nothing dissuade you from seeing what you see or feeling the winds that make you want to...
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Back to School Lunches

Posted by on Sep 8, 2011 in Parenting | 0 comments With memories of uneaten sandwiches, spilled veggie dip and requests for fast food, just about each year at this time parents start thinking about what to do for their kids’ lunches. Struggling around food is a lose-lose situation.  It will not help your child grow into a good eater.  So let’s take a step back and find a way to come at this from another angle. First of all, let’s be...
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Sit. Feast on Your Life.

Posted by on Sep 8, 2011 in Reflection | Comments Off The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take...
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Food and Cheer

Posted by on Sep 8, 2011 in Mindful Eating | Comments Off If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. J.R.R. Tolkien
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