Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Thanksgiving Prep #1, M. F. K. Fisher


It seems to me
that our three basic needs,
for food and security and love,
are so mixed and mingled and entwined
that we cannot straightly think
of one without the others.

So it happens that
when I write of hunger,
I am really writing about love
and the hunger for it,
and warmth
and the love of it
and the hunger for it…
and then the warmth
and the richness
and fine reality of hunger is satisfied
…and it is all one.*


…And it seems to me that Thinking/speaking/writing with this sensibility just might change the world


*M. F. K. Fisher, The Art of Eating. 1954
Quoted from Eucharist, A Sourcebook, compiled by J. Robert Baker and Barbara Budde

Liturgy Training Publications, 1999

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