An Interesting fast

Having a harddrive crash, I lost (for the moment) some things I wrote for the blog.

This is one of the first fasts I've been on where I'm not pouring down juice. Today is day 12, and for the first 8 days, I drank only a little more than 1/2 gallon of orange juice -- in total -- and mouth squeezed the juice from some organic oranges tangerines, and had a little honey (bought from Exotic Superfoods, from a beekeeper upstate who gives the bees their honey, rather than sugar syrup). The past few days, I've been having about a quart of tangerine juice, on Guidance. The intense colour is so wonderful, like liquid gold.

Note on the Juice: The tangerine is from Whole Foods, and the orange from Fairway. Neither type is organic. When I've finished the juice I bought, the Guidance is to handsqueeze from organic oranges since I'm not drinking that much anyway. Our friend Marco bought Me a fresh-squeezed organic o.j. at Exotic Superfoods last Saturday, the 29th, and it was so good. He had a smoothie with green power stuff and durian! I wasn't tempted at all by the durian, although I liked the smell. And later, making Sarah and Marco durian lasagna, opening this giant durian, there was no temptation at all. Just inhaling the durian fragrance was satisfying.

I feel quite good, and peaceful. Tired sometimes, full of energy other times. Yesterday, I added a little tomato juice with infused garlic and jalapeño, since I was craving hot spicy fasting juice (which I fasted on for over a year). The fasting juice has carrot juice in it, and I am feeling to become fruitarian after fasting, so I will have to listen for Guidance to see what is appropriate right now, as the direction was orange juice.

The Peace is quite remarkable in the face of day-to-day experience, which is often challenging. (understatement)

This is what I love so about fasting: the feeling of the Presence of Love constantly present.