There Aint No Reason

A friend Ev, shared a waste-streamy story with me. She was walking through food court at her campus and noticed an orange on the ground next to a trash can. It was obvious to her that no one was around, and no one wanted it, so she took it. She's happy about herself and her decision, and so am I. Not to long ago she may have passed by only thinking 'how unfortunate for a perfectly good orange to be on the ground' and just carried on with life.

Kelsi and I were busting out some ideas for a poster-board presentation representing the idea's and purpose of this blog. I guess my ideas were a little extravagant, she called my vision an Exhibit. Once she used that word my mind started rolling on the visual representation we could present. A main feature I want included is the face of poverty, meaning that I want a lifelike image of a child of famine. We thought of including a wall, or the perceptual representation of a dividing structure or social line between the haves and have-nots. Eventually the epiphany came, bringing food. Of course we would have food, showing resent scores and examples of what i eat, but we also thought to bring food to share. waste-stream food or maybe even food from a local market, just to have food. The ultimate idea so far is bringing rice!

Rice. When I say bring rice, I mean bring rice. A bag of rice, a cup of rice, a serving of rice. the value of the bag, the cup, the serving, the amount of rice I ate during my rice diet. the amount of rice for the value of things like bottled water or candy. Then, really the point would be that I have the choice to buy a bottle of water for 1.25 or feed 15 people. Maybe even a Pizza, like a ten dollar pizza and bring ten dollars worth of food that could last me a month.

Complicated? People are eating less.

wow what a video, I enjoyed watching it with a friend. Feelings.
Brett Dennen
"Ain't no Reson"


FOOD: Eating the muffins from yesterday's symposium trash and giving my self an unhealthy sugar rush with all the the reece's cups and air-heads i'm eating. gathered an unopen noodle salad mix dish, Turkey wrap, Cheese cubes, and some Lays chips. Craig hooked me up with some waste-stream bananas, a pear, cheese, and sauce.