{ Purely Delicious, Summer 2009 }
Have you subscribed yet to Purely Delicious magazine? It’s probably THE most beautiful and modern raw food periodical out there today. And this summer’s issue includes the very informative article, “Who’s Afraid of Sea Vegetables” by yours truly, complete with two drool-worthy recipes. A big THANK YOU to the publisher, managing editor, and my friend, Rebecca Carlson for her amazing talent, limited Zzz’s, and juggling big fat computer FAILS to bring us this lovely quarterly. Big HUGS and lots of LOVE to Rebecca!
Now for another quick update: Today I have begun my first ever three day juice cleanse. It sounds strange to say it, “My first ever three day juice cleanse”, after being raw for over two years. It seems that when you’re in the infancy of a raw food lifestyle (and I consider two years infancy in proportion to the rest of my physical life), you hear and read an awful lot about everyone’s juice cleanses, juice feasts, “The Master Cleanse”, etc. I thought everyone was just juice crazy, and why in the world was I not catching the fever until now?
Simply put – my body and my mind were just not ready. I now realize I’m not weird or dissing the raw food world by not jumping on the juice cleanse bandwagon. It’s not something you should ever feel obligated to do, and oddly enough that’s just what happened to me at times when I’d read about global juice feasts or about Angela Stokes’ 92-day run…and that SHE is one committed raw food Wonder Woman with an incredible story.
You don’t need to cleanse to get the benefits of living food! However, my time has come. I’ve been a bit overindulgent in cooked foods and wine over this past month, and I’ve realized this had a direct relationship to my daughter having been away from home (thankfully she’ll be returning this evening). I’ve also experienced a “calling” if you will, to have out with old – in with the new! My body and mind are now ready to voluntarily clean house.
I’ll be posting my experience – the good and the potty poopy talk, and surely there will be some. So consider this fair warning to those that are squeemish.
<3, JMK
