Sunday, November 29, 2009

Please Pardon My Cliché

I know, I know, the phrase Food For Thought is banal. What sort of goofball would start a blog and call it "Food For Thought"!? Well..., that would be me. I also have an unseemly predilection for abusing italics, inserting parenthetical elements within parenthetical elements, and failing the age-old Paper Bag Spelling Test--I can't spell my way out of one. (I'll be using my dictionary.)

But never mind all of that! ... Soon enough I shall have myself a proper proof-reader, spell checker, copyeditor and psychotherapist. (My last psychotherapist--who was also my previous copyeditor--, assured me that I suffered from a severe and also redundant case of terminal ellipsis...).

But never mind all of that! Already you're wondering what sort of goofball blog this is, and it's my job to tell you. It's a blog about food. And oil. And energy. And history. And the future. And the present. And it's a blog about Santa Fe, New Mexico--and environs.


Why Food -- And What About It?

First let me tell you that I am not an expert in the myriad subject areas this blog will touch upon. Merely being obsessed by these subjects--as I am--is no basis for presuming or pretending expertise. Remember this when I go on talking about some darn thing or another in a very confident tone, as if I were assured by bottomless research and study that I have the final word on some point or another. I'll be bluffing. However, it should be known that I have access to actual experts in the field. (Although, in truth, I cannot afford a psychotherapist.) Some of these experts have even been known to answer my e-mail queries!

I decided to write a blog about food because it seems to me that food provides the best conceptual (and actual) "bulls-eye" for exploring transitioning -- which is the broad theme of this blog. By "transitioning," I mean changing from one state of affairs to another--, from a radically non-sustainable way of life to a sustainable one. From a radically non-resilient state of affairs to a much more resilient one. And also--with equal importance--from an ethically questionable status to a much more ethically sound one.

So this blog is about ...

Sustainability
Resiliency
&
Sound Ethics

... in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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