Farm to Fork to Fabulous

Went to the Memphis Farmers' Market benefit at the Mesquite Chop House downtown last night. I think I might be developing an unhealthy obsession with butternut squash ravioli. Except that it's not really unhealthy to eat squash, especially when it's that good.

I did have a chance to work a few of the calories off in advance, since I helped to collect most of the produce -- including the butternut squash -- at the Farmers' Market on Saturday. I never in my life thought that anything -- or anyone -- could make me excited about getting out of bed before noon on a Saturday. I wasn't actually sure that anyone could get me out of bed before noon on a Saturday, but I was wrong.

I was also wrong about the unevenness that I thought was happening in my last post. Things have really smoothed out, mostly because I've stopped trying to convince myself that they were rough in the first place. Sometimes life just takes a while to get you to where you want to be, but everything that happens along the way makes you the person that you are when you get there. The trick is that you have to be able to learn from the past, and then let it go. That's the difference between "life lessons" and "baggage." I definitely still have some unpacking to do, but I'm getting there. I even found the cord for the modem.

Now all I need to find is some more ravioli...