Quote of Inspiration

I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Atilla and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar



Monday, October 25, 2010

Wow....just a carrot

I went to have my afternoon snack: a carrot and hummus. Then, I thought: does this hummus constitute a "processed" item? I mean, it does come in a tub, from the grocery store (Trader Joe's nonetheless). So, I looked at the label. Wow. There was some stuff I couldn't pronounce. In hummus!

I'm eating a raw carrot. And it stinks.

So far today, I've eaten:

Scottish oats, raspberries, 1 tsbs. pure maple syrup, 1 tbsp. half-n-half
Coffee w/half-n-half
1.5 hard boiled eggs
1 Banana
1 Apple w/2 tbsp. peanut butter (peanuts/salt only)
1 Carrot (large)
Handful of Strawberries (thank you California)
Water

MamaP

1 comment:

  1. I LOVE THE SIDDHARTHA QUOTE--MAKES ME WANT TO GO BACK AND HIGHLIGHT THE GEMS. YOUR DIET SOUNDS GREAT--I FIGURE ABOUT 70-80% UNPROCESSED IS IDEAL. CAN'T GO WRONG WITH OATMEAL! I'M BUSY TONITE PAINTING DOGGIE'S END TABLE. THE SLIPCOVERED CHAIRS ARE ROCKIN' CUTE. HOPE SHE AND THE TIMS LIKE IT ALL.
    WHEN DOES MAGGS GO TO THE ART MUSEUM AGAIN? I WANNA GO!!! MOM

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