There's a myth that all you need to do is outline your vision and prove it's right—then, quite suddenly, people will line up and support you.

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/03/the-forces-of-m.html

Fantastic...

Fantastic.  The whole thing really.  But I really love the part around 5 minutes where we talks about Gandhi 2 weeks prior to the Salt March.  Unbelievably profound. 

Nipun Mehta Speaks at Stanford

"If the Church doesn’t respond to this, the Church will be made irrelevant. It would [be] like the way you heard stories of people watching the Jews get put on the trains during the Holocaust. We will be that generation who watched our African brothers and sisters get put on the trains.”

From Relevant Magazine.

Amen.  The world needs more places like Glide and All Saints.

Shocked that more pastors, priests, etc. aren't speaking out on all the things that are going on in this world.

Hoping that they will start.  Soon.

I'm not 100% raw yet and not sure I'm going to be.  But I am eating a lot more raw food these days and noticing all sorts of benefits including a lot more energy, less need for sleep, etc.  Haven't been sick in forever (despite almost everyone around me being sick this winter) and have noticed a marked increase in thought quality.  Most everyone who goes totally or mostly raw experiences these things so I think it's probably a little more than a coincidence. :)

Anyway, just got done composing an email for someone who is thinking about doing the "raw thing" so I thought I'd share it here so y'all can benefit. I'm far (far!) from an expert in this world but hopefully this will be a good start for some people.

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here you go:

#1 - if you wanna go raw read a ton of raw food blogs.  great ideas and inspiration to eat better vs. crap that most people eat.  my favs:

welikeitraw.com (great social net at giveittomeraw.com started by same peeps)
lovingraw.com
rawmodel.com

and here are over 200 more: http://rawfoodrightnow.blogspot.com/2007/07/ultimate-list-of-raw-food-blogs.html

#2 - youtube videos.  another great way to learn and stay motivated.  search on "david wolfe", "green smoothie", "raw food", etc. you'll find lots.

#3 - i'm not a real big fan of most of the raw/vegan restaurants in the area.  i *love* rfd but haven't been able to fall in love with rawvolution, juliano's, etc.  i think you might be better off just buying stuff and doing it at home.  salads + smoothies are my mainstays these days and can give you pretty much everything you need. 

#4 - i don't have a ton of raw food books yet but there's a lot out there.  tons of cookbooks although many of the raw recipes take a bit of work and require special stuff like dehydrator, etc. 

at the end of the day the most important things are to minimize/eliminate consumption of animal products (cholesterol issues should disappear) and try to eat as close to nature as possible (unprocessed = good, uncooked = better).  a lot of people make it more complicated than that but it really doesn't need to be.

-j

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
-Malcolm Forbes