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Thursday is Garbage Day
The 4th precept
My son’s text
“Did you know it is National Deep Dish Pizza Day? and Michigan hockey is on tonight.”
What does this have to do with the 4th precept?
A long, long time ago, I gave up eating deep dish pizza. I spoke about it . . . hemmed and hawed really in my Facebook Live Video — as I was talking I realized how I have given up so much of what I loved in life. Simple things like pizza and Pepsi.
It is embarrassing to admit it to myself and to whomever my videos and words reach. But I will live with that awkward feeling because when I talk about it, when I share it, when I let myself be vulnerable . . . I can let it go. Truly let it go.
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I know that many of my friends feel the same way. My hope is that I start a dialogue. I believe that when we talk about something it’s hold lessons — like the monster thing in Harry Potter that holds on tighter if you struggle but when you relax it lets go! That’s what I’m doing. I’m suggesting that everyone let go of something on Thursday.
