October 7, 2012

• Day 23

  Day 23: I love this experiment, but it is the weekend. Weekends and experiments don’t go together well. I want to plan something special for this weekend, but everything I can think of, or that I have been invited to involves food other than rice and beans. Cuts out a lot. And makes every day feel like a weekday.

  “It is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.” –J.K. Rowling

  “you are not hungry” I tell my body. “You just ate rice and beans.” “rumble, rumble” is the reply. It goes back and forth. I was just telling someone how I could be vegan if I wanted to—for a month. “But why would you want to?” they asked. I didn’t have an answer. I just wanted to know I could. And now my tummy is complaining again, acting truly hungry until I show it rice and beans. I can feel my insides grimacing.

   “Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn’t commit” — Eli Khamarov

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