That's the most beautiful non-ceremony I ever saw.

I broke my fast yesterday (the fast lasted for 7 days this time). Today I've been eating salad and just now had a taste of this lovely coconut lentil soup (naturally I left out the chicken stock + added some carrot, herbs and extra ginger).

"I am a vegetarian for health reasons - the health of the chicken."

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

"A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of carcass dressed and hung up in a butchers stall passes as food."

- John harvey Kellogg

"The meat industry is one of the most destructive ecological industries on the planet. The raising and slaughtering of pigs, cows, sheep, turkeys and chickens not only utilizes vast areas of land and vast quantities of water, but it is a greater contributor to greenhouse gas emissions than the automobile industry."

- Paul Watson: A Very Inconvenient Truth

"You never hear anybody talk about mad tofu disease."

- John Robbins

" [When asked what he would eat if he was in a desert with no food in sight except a cow ] I'd find out what the cow was eating and join it."

- Benjamin Zephaniah

"I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water…has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest stream is an exact replica of a great river." - Roderick Haig-Brown

This is a lake actually and not a river, but very lovable nevertheless.

"I believe imagination is our greatest asset, as human beings, and I believe it is our best, perhaps our only weapon against despair. I believe imagination is our best, our ultimate means of survival, all of us together -- each of us apart."

- Timothy Findley

I've been eating a lot of imaginary food this summer, answered many imaginary phone calls and metamorphosed into a car, a swing set, a mountain and a pillow. I live in a phantasy world most of the time anyway, but with my little godson I get to do it in a socially acceptable way!

"If you do not understand my Silence, how will you understand my Words."

(I get such a kick out of this quote.)

Randomness.