"Food is our common ground, a universal experience." -James Beard

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Renewal

It's that time of year when everything feels fresh and hopeful. I've begun to emerge from my holiday fog and I'm happy to say I have packed away the last of the Christmas decorations. I have a new set of goals and a renewed sense of energy.

The cynic in me cringes at this naïve sense of hope and possibility, but I push past that voice and grab tightly to my new found positivity.

After three weeks of travel, I have returned to the world of social media; and the hope I felt seems to be slipping away. I realize that the world of thinking people is not well represented in the social media-sphere, but it's easy to lose sight of that fact.

And so...in an effort to restore what I know of humanity, I have decided it's time for another dinner. It's time to connect with others around a good meal; time to unplug, emerge from the anonymity of the Internet, and interact with real people in a most unusual way- face to face.

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