10 Day Fast: Day 9

Yes. So close to the end. It feels like Christmas Eve. Today, Chuck and I went out to for the Animals sanctuary in Blairstown. It was amazing petting the goats, cows, and chickens. The pigs were sleeping. I've been reading "Eating Animals" by Jonathan Saffron Foer so it was perfect timing for our first visit to the sanctuary. It's amazing how the human race dissociates to feel comfortable living with cruelty - not just in animal agriculture, but in many ways. I was dissociating even as a vegetarian - globally, socially, personally. It's what we do to protect ourselves. We think it's helping us to survive. But it's really disconnecting us from ourselves and each other. And one benefit of the juice fast was a reconnection . . .which is still in process. Tomorrow is the last day. I'm passing the time by watching my lovely avocados ripening on the kitchen table. And drooling.