SLOW FOOD - AND TGIF

I got some great books from the library.....saw them at the bookstore a week or so ago and luckily our library has most of the ones I wanted to read. The main topic is the future of food, what is currently happening to food production, how so many varieties of foods are being lost, how people are working to preserve what they can....just lots of interesting things to think about. I will write down the names of them and add them to this post.

I bought one book, Barbara Kingsolvers "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle". I am in the process of reading it now...very interesting, informative, hopeful and dismaying at the same time. Large corporations have taken over much of the world's food production, in the process eliminating what they view as competition (Monsanto the notorious biggie, but they are not along...) buying out seed companies, eliminating the availability of heirloom varieties, using the World Bank to force developing nations to overthrow thousands of years of successful farming methods, so they can starve and go bankrupt buying and growing Roundup Ready seeds, importing soybean and corn products from America...it is all too depressing....as it has caused many people to be thrown into poverty and despair. However, there is the flip side, the positive side, of groups like the Slow Food Movement with their Ark of Taste who are preserving these precious heirloom plants.
Read the book...it's a good read as well as very informative.

I am doing well today. Had an awesome bm this morning...yes I know...eww..but really! It was alot, and there was something in it that looked like it had been around for a while....with a slight mucous coating....good sign and good that it's out of me...no longer in me. Have already had my fiber drink for the morning.

Never did get around to making a green juice yesterday, did fine with my Master Cleanse. Doing the Master Cleanse again today, this one with 4 lemons and 3 oranges and sweetened with half maple syrup and half raw honey. It is yum. Will do a green juice tomorrow. Just didn't have time this morning to juice.....sleeping is such a wonderful thing to do....love it!

Today is a beautiful sunny day, warm...tomorrow even more so. So....our Saturday routine..need to get Dakota's tire back on his bike, even if it's a bit flat...stays pumped up pretty well, and he can just bring the pump. However, hoping Liam does a run in the morning, and drives down to the FM just in case there is alot of stuff we want to buy. Really getting into the wonderful fresh greens, lettuces, etc. They aren't heavy but I do want to buy some more plants and those can be heavy....we shall see what we do.

Feeling good today......so glad I am continuing on....might have some time today to add some links to some of my favorite blogs.....there are so many wonderful juicy awesome raw blogs out there!! And if I link them to mine...maybe, just maybe I will get some readers....but even if I don't...I really do this for me...it's my journaling....

love and dandelion sunshine to all!

ciao bellas!
Alessandra

ps I have been seeing lots of lovely hawks recently.......so beautiful they are!