Today was great. Sunny, almost hot, nice breeze… And some of our fruit is starting to get ripe.
My wife picked a bunch of raspberries off the bushes just outside our house today (there’s still a few upstairs, so this will be a short post… 
). There’s a house for sale near where we live that has a cherry tree in the yard, so I also had a few fresh cherries today.
I’ve never had cherries fresh off the tree before. They were simply wonderful. That house has been empty for some time now, but last year I waited too long to get to the cherries (somebody else beat me to it — the house sits right next to the playground, and if you are tall like I am, you can reach across the fence and reach a couple of the branches).
We also went to the grocery store, where I bought WAY too much fresh produce. If I’m as hungry over the next couple of days as I was today, there won’t be any problem with spoilage (even if it won’t all fit in our tiny refrigerator).
I’m also starting to get a little more active. It’s a bit forced at this point, but I know that I’ll want to get more active as time goes on, so I’m starting now. I took a few walks today. Yesterday I did a few exercises (and could even do a few push-ups; my right wrist had been giving me problems for a long time but tolerated a few push-ups yesterday). I’ll be talking more about that as I go on.
There’s a bit of a dark side, too. I read an article by somebody who owns a restaurant and feels threatened by raw food (at least that’s my take). Many of his statements were, in my opinion, extremely inaccurate and could be downright false truths.
It kind of reminded me of the remarks that people sometimes make about people with very deep spiritual lives. To be honest, at first I wanted to leave a one word comment on the blog (something along the lines of “Neanderthal”!), but then I realized that, just as it is with somebody seeking to become more spiritual, I can’t really begin to communicate with somebody about raw food until they are ready to listen. Call it ignorance, call it outright hatred, call it what you want — if you are not ready to stop and listen to what I have to say about the 80/10/10 raw diet, then there’s really nothing I can do about that.
As a result, I’ve decided that, as a general rule, I won’t approve comments that want to argue the merits of the low fat raw food lifestyle. I’m here to help you grow, and while “proselytizing” would be a good thing, it’s not my main goal. I’ll be happy to disciss things with people who stumble across this blog and wonder what the heck I’m talking about, but no arguments.
Sorry, one last thing: I’ve purchased a new domain for this blog and it will soon be moving. Or perhaps “starting over” would be a better word. While the outcome is still uncertain, there’s a KNOWING deep down inside me that says that this lifestyle is the right one, at least for me, and although the road to 100% low fat raw may still be rocky, I’m going to get there. So I’ll be closing out this “transition to raw foods” blog and moving to a new domain.
Besides, if you saw what I hauled home from the grocery store today, you’d realize that it will take me several years to eat it all (at least it seems that way!), so I guess I’m stuck now…
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