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Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
Just been to my first "Meat free Monday" meal at our local Sustainability Centre . They hold one every month with people from different ethnic backgrounds cooking meals. This one was special, it was a Lebanese meal, and the money raised was going to the charity Medical Aid for Palestine which operates in both Palestine and Lebanon ..There was a young Palestinian woman there whom I had met before when she came over to the Island last year for our local rally and hikoi. She entertained the dinners with Lebanese and Palestinian songs plus she spoke of the humanitarian crises in both Gaza and Lebanon..
This is a video I posted a while back of her singing at one of the rallies in the city where a young Vietnamese woman had all her hair cut off to raise money for a Palestinian charity.
The words to the song roughly translated into English
"And you, the brave ones, where are you from? Where is Palestine? The spear strikes with the return of beauty. Palestine, and you, the brave ones, where are you from? We are your youth, Palestine. Palestine, we were not created to live in humiliation, We were created to live in freedom. Hand in hand, we stand together for our land, We won't give up our land. Palestine, Arab from 100% to 100%."
Such a beautiful voice...
Shoshin1
Craving For Food
I think I ate something bad Sunday, or had a stomach virus or both. Felt pretty nauseous and threw up my dinner, still felt nauseous the next day and had to force down a very small amount of food. Slowly I was able to tolerate more food as the days went on. It was this thing where if I only ate a little I felt very full. I haven't felt hungry or much of an urge to eat at all this week and aside from the discomfort its actually been rather nice, not thinking about wanting something to eat and all the subsequent thoughts about diet and how much to eat, etc.
Its like Nagarjuna's stanza
There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
I also noticed a sense of boredom. Like what to do now, that I'm not worrying about eating.
I think I felt a hunger pang today, so it seems I'm coming back to my normal. I'm thinking about how I may incorporate this experience into my life going forward.
person
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
This announcement is not useless, but otherwise fits the thread!
Tiny copper ‘nano-flowers’ have been attached to an artificial leaf to produce clean fuels and chemicals that are the backbone of modern energy and manufacturing.
They convert CO2, water and glycerol (an organic waste product) into various complex hydrocarbons, using just solar power. Very cool science!
Jeroen
Re: What music are you listening to?
Here is the well known Buddhist, Leonard Cohen, giving advice 
lobster
Re: What movies are you watching?
Watching Beverly Hillbillies
JD Vance Clampett
Was one of the funniest shows on TV
Shoshin1
Re: What movies are you watching?
Just finally watched Wild Robot. All of us in the room cried. It was good.
Vastmind
Re: So HUNGRY to NOT CRAVE
@Ren_in_black you can wonder...
If Warsaw can be vegan. We can too... (hunger is all in the mind)
"Na zdrowie" as the Poles say whilst drinking their vegan vodka...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/31/warsaw-vegan-capital-europe-city-poland-food
lobster
Re: What we are doing right?
Soon you will be one with the grass hoppers,
When you walk through a storm, Hold your head up high, And don't be afraid of the dark.
At the end of the storm, There's a golden sky, And the sweet silver song of a lark.
Walk on through the wind, Walk on through the rain, Though your dreams be tossed and blown.
Walk on, walk on, With hope in your heart, And you'll never walk alone, You'll never walk alone.
lobster
Re: So HUNGRY to NOT CRAVE
I feel like I am on the other side (for now) of what I was struggling with when I first posted this.
I want to say thanks to everyone. The advice you have all given me has pretty much come to pass. I am more comfortable with letting things go in their time and not spending energy on achievement, which of course has eased the hunger for being able to do those very things. 
