"It's always the right time to do the right thing."
- Martin Luther King
It's funny how quotes speak to us and come to us when we need them the most. I was having an in depth conversation with my son yesterday; once off the phone I was thinking very long and hard about our discussion. I wanted to share with him what it really came down to without it coming directly from me. Funny how things come to us when you are not looking.
Food is always a topic of conversation in our society and especially now a days. A very interesting observation was brought up the other day to me. Something that I'd never thought much about - how our current day food process, equals lose of agriculture and ultimately the lose of cultures.
There was a time when farming and agriculture was a daily part of life. Most people had gardens and ties to the earth and our food chain in some way shape or form. Over time, less and less of this happened as more people moved to the city, foods were more readily becoming mass produced and processed. I remember my grandparents growing most of their fruits and vegetables, my parents having a huge garden. As a child, I unknowingly got the education, knowledge, and love where food came from and the basis of why it's good. Most of us and especially our kids and the future generations, just go to the store, get what they need without any notion of where it came from - let alone all the harsh and harmful processing and additives to make that happen.
Equally as sad is the lose in cultures this has created - starting from the communal growing and harvesting, to the preparing and then gathering to eat. A celebration. Every culture known to man has its regional staple that they have made their trade mark. Now we drive to Taco Bell or go down the ethnic isle of the grocery store. Even traditional American meals are lost to all of this.
On an upside, it is fun to see more and more people raising chickens and going back to gardening. I have come to realize it is much more healthy than just the food we reap, but the education and love we give to our children and those around us.
Enjoy every day,