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Category: Blessing the Hands that Feed Us

Q Arrives in Our Town

Q Arrives in Our Town
Blessing the Hands that Feed Us / Conversation / Food & Food Systems / Freedom December 23, 2020 January 10, 2021 43 Comments

   The white nationalists have found our town, a seaside village on a long, skinny island in Puget Sound, with a Naval Air Station in the north, an historic farming town in the middle and a parfait of cultures that have over the years chosen …

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What is this?

What is this?
10 mile diet / Blessing the Hands that Feed Us / Food & Food Systems / Money & Life August 10, 2019 August 10, 2019 1 comment

 In improv theater we have a game called: What is this? For example, What is this? Yes of course it is a Trader Joe’s plastic tub for chocolate chip cookies. But what else is it? A container for compostable veggie scraps. An under-sink container for …

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Beyond Despair – Global Earth Repair

Beyond Despair – Global Earth Repair
Blessing the Hands that Feed Us / Food & Food Systems / Life Design / Social commentary / Your Money or Your Life May 7, 2019 May 7, 2019 3 Comments

At the Global Earth Repair Conference May 3-5 I experienced a paradigm shift in the structure of my thinking. I learned a few new things, but mostly it rearranged what I know into a new pattern. Grief about the inevitability of decline, not just of humans …

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The Paperback of Blessing the Hands has arrived

Blessing the Hands that Feed Us January 6, 2015 January 6, 2015 1 comment

I’m happy to present to you this lighter, easier on the pocketbook version with a subtitle I like a lot more: Lessons from a 10-Mile Diet.

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A bessing for the hands that feed us – for Thanksgiving

Blessing the Hands that Feed Us November 26, 2014 March 22, 2018 1 comment

Let’s, on this Thanksgiving, reflect on whose hands we are blessing as we sit down to a meal.   Perhaps we start with the hands of God or Gaia or the God of your Understanding as they say in AA. Just imagine. The amazing marriage …

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The Local Food Challenge wind up

Blessing the Hands that Feed Us October 31, 2014 October 31, 2014 Leave a comment

Halloween, 2014 Our first 10-Day Local Food Challenge comes to an official end today – though any day is a good day for a personal local food challenge. Everyone’s experience this month counts. Those who did it. Those who started and stopped. Those who meant …

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“Local” heading up the influence chain

Blessing the Hands that Feed Us October 24, 2014 October 24, 2014 Leave a comment

Watch out team! I’m swimming in inspiration at Terra Madre. Here’s what I posted on the Food Day website (in the middle of the night because I’m so full). What do you think of it? I am at Terra Madre in Italy – a great …

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For the love of food

Blessing the Hands that Feed Us October 24, 2014 October 24, 2014 Leave a comment

How can you not love food when in Italy, especially when you are at Terra Madre? But something different is happening to me. Something less utilitarian. I’m “feeling” the flavors, because I am among people with reverence for food. For the thousands of different types …

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Terra Madre: Opening Ceremony

Blessing the Hands that Feed Us October 22, 2014 October 22, 2014 Leave a comment

Terra Madre is the biannual Slow Food Conference to build and connect the movements for good, clean and fair food … and I’m here for the first time. I consider it a pilgrimage of sorts, paying homage to the millions of people around the world …

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10-Day Local Food Challenge Update: 9/16

Blessing the Hands that Feed Us / Food & Food Systems September 16, 2014 March 22, 2018 Leave a comment

“A local eating challenge is a crash course in reconnection, putting us back in touch with the people who produce our food, the landscapes we live in, and even our own bodies. It is philosophy and politics lived out loud, a delicious demand for a …

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