After years of work I have finally released this book to the world. It is weird exposing one’s self so nakedly to the world. One of the things I learned along they tortuous path of my life is that demons become powerless in the sunlight.
Let the Sun shine in!
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Here is a video short of the Dedication:
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Here is an excerpt from the first chapter.
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An excerpt from Food is Fuel:
Food is not love
When we are born there are some things, we can do for ourselves. We can breathe. We can eliminate waste (urine and feces). We can hear. We can cry out for help. What is the one crucial thing we cannot do? We cannot feed ourselves (although we clearly can eat!). Even if, one foot away from our face, there was a bowl of the most perfect ambrosia, we could not get it to where it is needed: our mouths. We are totally, completely dependent on a caretaker to feed us. Usually this done by our parents. It is done with care and love. We are fed till satisfied all the while being caressed and spoken to. As we grow, our parents and grandparents are thrilled when we eat. They spend time cooking and are delighted when we enjoy their food. They get upset when we don’t eat. They show us their love us by feeding us. They teach us, by repeated lessons, that food is love. They love us so they feed us. I know that the most powerful memories of my grandmothers are about their food. The way they cooked, the smells and tastes. I remember one grandmother making strudel and knishes and the other making homemade gnocchi and tomato sauce. My father made pesto and quiche and mashed potatoes. What I am telling you is that as much as you and I love food, and as much as the people we love showed us their love by giving us the most outstanding food: food is not love!
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How To Use This Book
This is a not a book of daily meditations or prayers. This is a book of ideas. It is a book that asks you to think about how and why you eat. It is a book that offers insights and tries to show you the tools you already have at hand. This is not the kind of book you sit through in one sitting or read a section a day and get it. To make this work for you it must be internalized. There is only one way that I know of to truly internalize something, only one way to truly learn use a tool. Repetition. You must practice every day. You must read a chapter over and over for many days. Try to read the same section every day for a week. Find what works for you. This is a framework not a prescription. This is not a race to get through the knowledge and be tested and declared a winner. This is not like going to the surgeon to remove a mole “wham bam” DONE! This is a master’s degree in your life. This is a practice. This is you trying to change the way you live. This is a deep dive into you own thinking. Your own motivations and triggers. This is you trying to lay new tracks on which to run. This takes focus, effort, and persistence. Especially on those days that it everything sucks, or you just have no strength, or you don’t care. ESPECIALLY on those days you must persist and stick to it. Self-directed change is hard. Anyone that tells you otherwise is trying to sell you a magic pill or some such worthless trinket.
So, don’t race to the end of the book. There is no final plot twist. Read a bit at a time. Make each chapter a practice of days, or weeks. Like a piano player forever practicing scales, return, reread, contemplate again each section, on occasion, to refresh your practice. Take your time. It took your whole life to get where you are do not expect that it will change by reading one book one time in a few days. Remember that you are in charge of your life and only you, through hard work and intent, can make the change.
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