Today I decided not to continue eating exclusively raw.  Terry was initially disappointed and has decided to continue the experiment without me because he loves a "challenge!"  What I realized for myself, though, is that I am not disappointed and that I don't need to view what or how I eat as a challenge (even though I am the one who proposed this in the first place!)

I am appreciating my own ability to change my mind according to what feels right at any given moment.  Or as Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his essays on Self Reliance:  "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."

I realize also that I started this arbitrary month-long experiment to fully celebrate raw foods because I love them!  So my love for raw remains but I also can appreciate cooked foods.  For today, I will be adding back in organic brown eggs and steamed collard greens.  And each day from here I will mix and match fresh with cooked--hopefully with an increased awareness of the properties of both.

Thus concludes Raw August.