Most of the time, I am quite aware of how my body is affected and by what: After about 3 minutes of sitting still, I will, effectively, freeze, regardless of the temperature outside. If I hold my breath for too long, I will die. My skin does quite poorly in extreme humidity (read: Taiwan) and on so little sleep (read: my life).
Rarely: Rarely do I put all that useful stuff to good use.
So, this time: Fiber is good for you. I wonder if I'm getting enough fiber. If I'm not, I might get some kind of cancer and die. I've always figured I'd rather just die than know I have something killing me. But it's hard not to know. Especially when you're in pain. Hrm... Most starches don't appeal to me, unless properly dressed, so not much fiber from that. But I eat a lot of fruits and vegetables. Those have fiber. I wonder if you can eat too much fiber. Even if I eat a lot of fiber, I'll still die from something. Is Krikki's fish doing okay? Paul and Joy's plants aren't very happy in this cold-cold weather -- I'm afraid I'll kill them. Ack.
The point being: Fiber.
You know... I realized... Or more like remembered... Besides physical fiber for my body, fiber is what keeps me healthy in my mental and emotional life, too. Now, I won't get into all the analogies and comparisons between physical fiber and mental/emotional fiber, because I think you get the point of what fiber is good for and what it's supposed to do.
Good.
But, really... Have you tried a life without fiber? (Like those well-used analogies of the caterpillar, butterfly and cocoon. The light at the end of the tunnel. The sunshine after the storm.) You really shouldn't. If you haven't had some fiber, recently, go out and get ye some.
Oh, right, some of us are facing perpetual "fiber" at the moment. In big ways. Well, it's good. Looking on the bright side: We will come forth healthy-ly.
I think I should write a song about fiber and how necessary it is in life. Emotionally and mentally. Maybe even physically. But that would be an entirely different genre of song.
It's my latest original-way-to-see-a-longstanding-and-well-known-life-fact. I like seeing things in original ways. It's less boring and it appeals to the somewhat stubborn and rebellious streak in me. (Well, hey: gotta have an outlet.) Like, don't ever go for "love from above like a dove in a glove".
For years, that was my example of "rhyming I hate". Although, truth be told, the last half isn't common. Let's not talk about the first half. Then Vas went and put it all in one verse of one song.
Shame-shame.
I hope he's sorry.
Anyway, I'm here to remind you to eat your greens and to get your fiber. In life.--And all you people who think you can get away with eating white rice and supplementing it with a spoonful of bran... Well, I just hope you really are eating the bran.
Some hairy coconut fiber would do just fine, too.
I also want you to know that this photo looks like a total collage/montage/and-every-other-word-that-ends-with-"age"-said-in-the-French-way:
I feel it's highly un-factual and we should not be feeding this type of erroneous-ness-ity to our people.
I also suspect it's a conspiracy.
As a side note, please don't ever do this to your coconuts:
It's a shameful and un-manly way to treat them. No coconut should ever be made to look like that.
Some little-known facts about coconuts that I've had to share with many people, in my lifetime:
-1 of the 3 eyes on a mature/brown coconut is softer than the others. If you want to easily remove the milk without doing... well... every odd thing I've seen people do... as I scratched my head in wonder... until I realized they didn't grow up in Brasil, so hadn't been taught this trick... 1) Locate the soft one, by poking around with a knife or screwdriver or knitting needle or chopstick or color pencil; 2) Use a turn-y/twist-y motion to get through the soft one; 3) Make sure it's cleared of matter (usually about a cm of cleared-ness); 4) Turn coconut over cup; 5) Watch milk remove itself; 6) You might want to give it a little help, since there's no air going in and the out-motion might be kind of slow.
-If you want a cleaner break on your coconut shell -- e.g. if you plan to use the shells for crafts or a hat or maybe even if you've run out of bowls -- after removing the milk... 1) Place the coconut in an oven on high heat; 2) Leave it in for 5-10 minutes or until you think it's good enough; 3) Find a suitable floor; 4) Hurl the coconut at the floor a couple times (I've never actually tried a less savage way of doing this); 5) It will crack open; 6) Remove the flesh; 7) Eat. When you take it from the oven, it'll be hot, so use protection. The heat also separates it a bit from the shell, which will make the coconut meat come off the shell much more easily. Alternatively, you can heat it up on an open flame, on the stove. Just rotate it, so all sides get some heat.--And be prepared to deal with your house-mates giving you the evil eye and trying to lecture you on not doing stupid things.
This just shows how uninformed some people can be.
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