Breaking Bread Together

[parodie]

It is no wonder that we have had to invent other games to counteract [the ways we spend time together while avoiding really "seeing" each other]. Encounter groups, T groups, the multisensory techniques of William Schutz and the Esalen Institude and the Living Theater. After all these years of playing games whose purpose it is to keep us at arm's

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[blueheron]

Food, for obvious reasons, is something that I have given a lot of thought

[blueheron]

You raise an interesting point about the hospitality of receiving food: to refuse something is often to somehow refuse or spurn the person offering the food. I think the corollary to that - and the point I was thinking about as I wrote this post - is that it is not just the act of accepting the food that is significant (although it is): something important happens (or rather, can happen) in the eating. If we all sit down and share a meal together, we are no longer strangers - we have shared a meal together. It's different.

(thoughts are fuzzy)

But yes, you raise an interesting point.