"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the the endless immensity of the sea."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I so love this quote that came to me via a curious cookbook entitled, "An Everlasting Meal, Cooking with Economy and Grace'" written by Tamar Adler. A less elegant title might be "How to Look in Your Refrigerator and Pantry and create something Tasty and Nutritious," or even simpler, "Have Courage. You Probably Have Enough." Many people, of course, do not have enough even though we Americans send billions of dollars worth of food to landfill in any given year. Therefore, we who do have enough, need to learn to cook and savor that enough.
I did not have a picture that showed the immensity of the sea, but a sunflower in the wind seems to express this idea just fine.
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