Day 14, baby! We did it!

We've celebrated here at the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center. The first meal of freedom in the dining room was salad, cous cous, and a vegetable soup. It was as if the bodhisattva spirits of Green Gulch themselves had prepared the meal for us: a raw salad, unseasoned easy-to-digest cous cous, and a soup not dissimilar from the one we'd made 36 hours before.

As always at Green Gulch, the first ten minutes of the meal were silent. The mindfulness and the quiet of the place accentuated our senses.

We took our first bites. The marinated red onions in the salad visited my taste buds like sweet cherubim whisking me from a hell I didn't know I was inhabiting. The spices in the orange-brown garbanzo bean soup recalled my debt of gratitude to my ancestors for evolving and passing down the blessed infatuation with diverse sustenance. And then the thimble-sized morsel of feta cheese I added to the salad, like an ivory dollop of the divine drug of Olympus itself, carried me away to an unimagined realm of ecstasy. Eating! It was good.

Adding to our delight, two beautiful souls -- Iris and Alexa -- journeyed up to Green Gulch to share our celebratory lunch with us...

Bliss and Chaperones:
Iris, Alexa, Daimian, and Tony Share a Celebratory Lunch
in Green Gulch Dining Room (audio highlights)

Exceeding all our expectations, Iris hand-made Certificates of Completion acknowledging us for completing "the Relaxative Master Cleanse 10 Day Fast with Integrity, Honor, Humor, Solidarity, and Community!" We made quick films of our silent ceremony receiving the Certificates there in the zen simplicity of the Lindisfarne atrium.

First Iris, then Alexa, after lunch, officially witnessed our accomplishments. Some video highlights...

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Our gratitude to you two amazing women.

And our thanks to everyone who has read this blog at any time and lent support, consciously or unconsciously. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

--tony & daimian

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