Raw Radiance Current Journal
"...On the raw again. The life I love is eating fresh fruit with my friends, I can't wait to be on the raw again."



Tuesday 5/1/07 - I am ready to just be raw. I don't expect perfection, so there may be some cooked meals along the way. I will be having Morning Thunder tea for awhile as I lower my dependence on caffeine. I sure felt I needed it on cooked food. I had a half a watermelon for dinner, some 'Raweos' for dessert and then some lovely pineapple. But most of the day was cooked food.
Why today? It is not because it is the first of the new month, although that has symmetry that I appreciate. It is because of something that happened today. A man I met told me stories and I enjoyed them at first and then found myself restless the more he talked. Afterwards I did 'The Work' on my discomfort and the thought that he wanted my attention. I turned it around and realized how true it was. I want my own attention. I want to pay attention to my real needs rather than just keep putting in caffeine, sugar and other sedating foods to get by. I want to pay attention to my stories, how I make my experiences into rules that I then feel the need to break. I want to pay attention to my true desires to be healthier and feel good again eating the food I love and know nourishes me best. I want to pay attention to my desires and needs in my work, rather than listening as much to other people's stories through TV, books and even movies. They are appropriate for me as recreation, not sustenance. I want to pay attention to me, and then I will have the true generosity to give time and attention to other people without resentment. And so I am raw, as a reality, no longer avoiding it, thinking it is too hard. Being raw is who I am now, and the cooked meals will be very few and far between... perhaps becoming as rare as me smoking a cigarette. The last cigarette I smoked was ten years ago. grin So, here I will journal the food, feelings and some about the rest of my life as I am 'another rawbie in a mostly cooked land'. I will be eating fresh, ripe fruit with some greens along with the Morning Thunder. Once in a while I will make a raw recipe; I have a half dozen that I love from previous raw adventures.


Wednesday 5/2/07 For food it is watermelon today, along with bananas, a mango, oranges, papaya and a cup of morning thunder so far. I hiked home with heavy fruit again today which takes 30 minutes round trip and it was not as difficult today.

Thursday 5/3/07 Yet another dental visit, with no fun in it. It was bad news, some pain and frustration with this continuing saga. For food I had a cup of Morning Thunder, a cooked brownie, watermelon and dried figs, bananas, so far.

Friday 5/3/07 I had cooked breakfast after more watermelon, then later oranges, cooked dinner, bananas and a grapefruit. I am not giving up, I am reading online about what works for people transitioning to all raw.

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