7.11: Bedtime reading, originally uploaded by Scrivenings.

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The Omnivore’s Dilemma:

"Eating is an agricultural act," as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though much has been done to obscure this simple fact, how and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the world–and what is to become of it. To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life can afford quite as much satisfaction. By comparison, the pleasures of eating industrially, which is to say eating in ignorance, are fleeting.

All my lies are only wishes, originally uploaded by Scrivenings.

I thought of this picture this morning, as I woke up and wished that I could remain in bed, instead of going out into the rain to bring the kids to school.