They turned out surprisingly well. I was still hungry after dinner (not at all an unusual occurrence for me) so I devoured one immediately after pulling them out of the oven, and, while a bit bland, tasted excellent. Like my other sweet potato dinner experience, it felt so nice to eat something that hadn’t been totally processed, dehydrated, and packaged. My body just feels different after eating healthier, and it’s something that I’ve missed feeling on a regular basis. That and spices.
As we approach the end of this challenge there have been a lot of things on my mind in regards to the challenge itself, the meaning and purpose behind it, and the meaning and purpose of this week. I mentioned in my blog yesterday that I’m realizing we’re living in a country with seriously broken systems. We didn’t get here over night, and we won’t find the answers overnight either. But we have to start thinking about them, and we have to start doing it collectively with constructive dialogue.
Ultimately hunger and homelessness are issues that will have to be tackled collectively as a community, as a region, and as a country. But first we have to know where we’re going. At the Office of Sustainability we like to ask ourselves and others, “What exactly do we want to sustain?” Being sustainable isn’t a goal or an end product; it’s a process. But we have to know and understand what we’re working towards to make anything happen. We also like to say that you can’t be sustainable in isolation. I can’t make the necessary changes happen on my own. No one can, but maybe we can start the process.