Good morning...

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Typing before work with the kitten on my lap. Just fed her a bit of the sliced roast beef that Ellie left here for her, and she is in serious purr mode. It was weird... while giving her the roast beef, I got the strong urge to taste it myself. I didn't; I know well how stomach enzymes react to something they haven't encountered in 14 years. And to try it would feel a bit like tossing away a longterm sobriety chip - I've been a vegetarian since 1989, and I like it that way.

But in that moment... serious crave. Well, not liking the taste of meat was never among the reasons why I gave it up.

I've been feeling task-overwhelmed and tired in the past 24 hours, and it is likely nothing that sleep and downtime won't go a long ways towards curing. Still, I've been lapsing in and out of a phase of emotional bluntedness, and I need to call creativity, inspiration, body-care, and attunedness with nature back into my life.

Geri

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I once happened to go a few months without any meat -- not a choice or otherwise, just happened not to eat any -- and then when I got some my stomach really wasn't happy. I thereafter resolved not to let it go so long again. I know someone who was a vegetarian for seven or eight years and then wanted to start eating meat again for pregnancy -- it's really tough getting enough protein in pregnancy without. It's perfectly possible, but more of a challenge than she wanted right then. She eased her way back to meat by eating the vegetables with some sauce out of meat dishes at Chinese restaurants, which seemed to work in terms of giving her the enzymes without the distress. She went back to being vegetarian afterwards.