"Dance Party in Aisle #6. Show up if you want to dance!" I heard over the Loud Speaker @ Whole Foods Market.

Date:   8/7/2006 12:32:05 AM ( 18 y ago)

10:11 PM
August 6, 06

Feeling upbeat tonight.
Got some good Ayurvedic
herbs from Nuva Yeetah.

There was also a lovely book
called "Antidote and Renewal Codes"
in the office. Leslie Gelles gave me one
to take one. The artist Meg Roberts has done
somethings extraordinary. More on this later.

Stopped at Whole Foods Hillcrest,
the store where I did the local food project
in the Spring '06. Amazing to see how
Local is not a Big thing in this store and
many other stores.

Feel I played a role in bringing that reality
down to earth.

I was just in the bathroom reading the slogan
on my T-shirt. IT says, "Time is but a stream
I go fishing in." --Henry David Thoreau.

He is one of my favorite authors. I got
this T-shirt when I visited Walden Pond with
Lurrae numbers of years ago.

I think I have a few quotes that would make
hits on T-shirts.

"Not knowing who's growing your food
is like being intimate with a stranger!'

Here is my biggie:

"The Earth and the Soul are Soilmates."

How many things do we have to do in our
life to make us feel we have left something
lasting?

I get so down about the talents I imagine I have
and the feeling I have fallen short.

It gets to me when I take months out to set up
systems, as I am doing now. Never again.

I am going to keep finances in the loop of
my life.

It is amazing the unspoken agreement in Whole Foods.
IT is O.k. to shop and not make eye contact or say
hello. I can only live this way so long.
Anyone who gives me half a chance to make eye
contact is going to get a friendly hello.

Tonight, they had all these Golden Oldest songs playing.

Ever so often, you could see someone moving their body
a bit, but not wanting anyone else to know.
They there is an occasional person who is really
looking cute in their quasi exercise suit or shorts,
but doesn't really want anyone to presumably notice
how cute they are. IT is also like going shopping in pajama's.
Amazing how intimate and open we can dress, but
don't admit we are all on the same Liferaft.

One man was singing the song.
I was dying to talk to someone.

"Say wouldn't it be something,
if it was o.k. to ask someone for a dance?"

We could shop, tap someone on the shoulder,
have a dance, and then go back to shopping
as if we did not not one another.

Sarah, one of the team members, was on shift.

"Sarah, What do you thing if had a dance party?
We could make a little announcement,
Attention Shoppers! All those who want to dance
you are invited to go to aisle #6 for the next ten minutes!"

She laughed. "Can you believe how little eye contact there is
in here?" She agreed.

Don't get me started.

There were two pretty ladies eating something in one
of the booths.

I went up to them.

"Say what do you thing if we had a little dance party
in aisle #6 for ten minutes?" I asked each of them.
One thought it was a good idea.

I broke into their space, and then left it.

In the dark of the upstairs parking lot,
my mine was spinning out on the idea
and it was making me happy.

I imagined having a birthday party in aisle #6.
I would serve cake, or maybe give away free Locally
grown food and Anthony's Zollezzi co-authored book
"How Dog Food Saved the Earth,"
He is my friend who is one of the partners behind
"Pet Promise," the really great pet food.

Glad to be home, and ready to take on tomorrow.

How your tomorrow is great!

How about a little dance?

Your eg

 

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