Today's Quote: "Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can't get there by bus, only by hard work, risking, and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself." --Alan Alda
Jack is teaching himself to cook from scratch. He has a cook book called The Hippy Gourmet that contains all kinds of delicious vegetarian recipes. Today he made a fava bean spread that smells and tastes heavenly. Of course, I only ate about a teaspoon of it -- beans are high in carbs -- but he used it to make a giant veggie sandwich on whole wheat, and I was jealous. The homeschooling is working out well. He's learning a lot, and not just traditional academics. Learning to cook is a valuable life skill. Today he also wrote a four page essay on Anti-Imperialism and the upcoming peace demonstration in Washington, DC on March 20th. I'm actually considering taking Jack to participate in the march. A bus from Hartford has already been organized through the ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) Coalition. It leaves at midnight, arrives in DC around 8:00 AM, and then returns to Hartford late Saturday night. So basically it means that I'd be on a bus for a total of about 16 hours in a 24 hour period. That's A LOT of time on a bus, which obviously doesn't really appeal to me. Plus, what if I have to pee? I loathe those tiny little closet bathrooms on busses. They make me claustrophobic. And I'm always afraid that the door is going to swing open while I'm sitting on the toilet with my pants around my ankles. Either that or I'm going to get locked in. (I once took a bus to NYC and happened to sit near the bathroom, and everytime someone used it they got locked in. I spent the whole ride freeing people from the bathroom.) And then what about once we arrive in DC? I'm sure there will be porta-potties, but . . . ugh. Those things are just gross. In any case, in spite of my misgivings, I'm still contemplating going. It's something that I've always wanted to do, and Jack's really into it, too. Glenn says if I analyzed everything the way I am this, that I'd never do anything. I'd just ponder my life away. I suppose he has a point. I don't know. I need to think on it some more.
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