something I am grateful for today
Aug. 9th, 2009 01:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johncomicI was in the grocery store, and for some reason stopped for a second and really looked at everything around me. And I was stunned at how... much... food there was. Rows of it, piles of it as far as the eye could see. And I felt like My God, there's enough for everybody...
I can't help but be grateful for this, when I think of all the times and places where food has been scarce... that I am fortunate enough, blessed enough to live in a time and place where food is so easy to get, is always so easy to get, for me and everyone around me. It's actually sorta humbling, somehow...
I can't help but be grateful for this, when I think of all the times and places where food has been scarce... that I am fortunate enough, blessed enough to live in a time and place where food is so easy to get, is always so easy to get, for me and everyone around me. It's actually sorta humbling, somehow...
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Date: 2009-08-09 05:45 pm (UTC)If you pay attention on Facebook, you will find that a huge fraction of status updates pertain directly to the exciting new food people are cooking or buying. We privileged modern rich Westerners just don't know how good we have it.