Author: clfuu

For the fish, the transition from peaceful swimming to disappearing down a bird’s gullet must be a shock—if there is even time to register what is happening. For the bird, the process is carefully planned, but routine—perhaps what we might experience navigating a complicated highway interchange. The line between calamity and daily routine depends entirely on where you stand.

How do you find empathy for the calamities of others? How do you invite others into understanding what is devastating to you?

“Hunger gives flavour to the food.”
― Amit Kalantri

When has the lack of something made you appreciate it?

So many choices in so little space. And so often when we experience hunger—physical or emotional—we have a hard time knowing just what it is that we are hungry for.

What helps you discern just what it is you are hungering for?

“Vision gives meaning to grace just as hunger gives meaning to food.”
― Paul Bamikole

What possibility lends meaning to your life?

Whether or not hunting appeals to you personally, this much is true: each of us lives at the cost of other lives. What feeds us is the end of some other being’s life—plant or animal. Beings eating at the cost of other beings dying is simply the way life works.

How do you express gratitude to the beings who feed you?