due to circumstances not beyond my control, which i let get beyond my control...i have neglected to blog the past week of thrills and spills in locavore liz's quest. BUT...be not deterred, for i am not, even in these challenging times.
friday, last week i woke to day 12 of locavorism. it was an interesting day and lunch was full of happiness thanks to a cauliflower grown by my friends dad...until the evening when i collapsed and faltered. was this hunger? was it laziness? was it emotional distress? was it realisation of a bar set too high...a finish line too far in the distance? whatever it was, i broke my stream of locavorism and scoffed a plate of imported , affectionately cooked by my housemate, vegetables!
shock!
horror!
despair!
i don't know where these specimens have come from. they very well may have unloaded off the back of any old truck from miles and i-don't-even-want-to-imagaine-how-many-miles away...
and the rain fell saturday morning. i checked the farmers market calender and had faltered once again, misreading the date for this saturday's market. i was down to one egg, one (soft) potato and a few florets of cauliflower. so i made a decision. i crumbled under the pastry of a south melbourne market spinach & cheese surprise and lapsed into a five day hiatus.
yes, i have dearly disappointed myself, yet sense the impending renaissance. i will visit Ceres in brunswick this wednesday. i will! i will embark on this expedition with green bags blazing...it's a new dawn and i will triumph in this resurgance, i will not let five days of wayward feasting destroy my endevours to be the best locavore i can be...that is until i celebrate my 27th year on september 8 and eat a whole cake.
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Ah, the folly of youth... or the inevitability of human frailty! Oh Liz, don't be too hard on yourself! After all, we live in a very corrupted world, and to go against this is an act of courage! Pick yourself back up off the 'floor of unethical guilt' and get back into Locovorism! Get back on the horse! Ride it all the way home into the sunset! RRRAAAAARRRRGGHHH!
ReplyDeleteZane
haha! wow, thankyou. things seem back on track and i'm considering a more relaxed approach as i launch in to the second half of this project. i visited Ceres on wednesday. have you been there? you must come with me some time! it's excellent. what do you think of my happy onions and do you think it's ok to take dirt from the building next door if it's abandoned? do you have a spade i can borrow?
ReplyDeletethankyou for your encouraging words...they mean alot.
ll