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What do we know of food today
dear little child of mine?
It kills
It makes ill
It impoverishes
It hides
It is illegal

Killing when laden
with fats and cholesterol
Ill-making coming from miles away
spewing oil and carbon on our babies
Impoverishing our poor
with unhealthy expensive food
Hiding out in weeds
think tomatoes
Made illegal by our cities
zoning out crops and animals

:- Doug.

What are the issues and opportunities for food here now?

:- Doug.

What needs community?

:- Doug.

Better than 1 ->< - 1 is 1 + 1 -> ∞

:- Doug.

Fast food is not going away, so we need to develop ways to make it healthy.

:- Doug.

Hearing we take another
into us
discovering him or her
mysteriously
the other causes us
to flow outward
into him or her
—someplace in between us
which is also
in each of us
there a chemical interaction
we become not merely one
but a new one
we are borne away
hearing we are drawn out

:- Doug.

Many streams converged in a yellow wood, and I, I chose the one less traveled by, and still we all emerged the one untraveled by, and that has made all.

:- Doug.

We flow into each other; we are new when we do. We may not always recognize it; we may not be conscious of our changes; and some are so subtle no one would notice or be able to trace it back, but only see its effect ages hence. Yet our story is told in the telling: we meet, we converse, we hear, our unconscious hears what our conscious misses, we tell our lives in stories and our stories become our story. Flow, flow, flow generates life, love, laughter, tears and us. Us anew: the you and the me of yesterday is not the same today because of whom we have met and what the flow has brought us to this instant.

:- Doug.

Each of us is a synthesis—so too all of us together. We are each a synthesis of all the people we have met and heard. What emerges at the estuary is a new river a new sea. They are coming together, merging, and going out from there new, emerging. We are coming together, emerging.

:- Doug.