Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed

As I try to find my way in this Godforsaken new world where nothing is real and truth is optional, I try to see it as an opportunity for change.  Instead of feeling a sense of doom, I'm changing my view to a portal into another way of being, in doing, of living.  We allegedly have the power to change our perception of reality.  We create anxiety and worry in our own minds, like a greasy clog in a drain, stopping us from being able to experience peace in our souls.  Isn't that such an incredibly complex curse to realize all of our troubles could be of our own will?  It's a sick cosmic joke. But using potentially bad scenarios to make a positive change is a lesson I have relearned my entire life but never seem to keep it in practice for lengths of time.  How can we forget such important information? It feels as though the most important practices are the hardest to make stick.  Yet we so easily make the same mistakes over and over.  A frustrating painful reality. 

Weeks of not having a healthy sack of food to take to work made me realize I needed to try another method of preparing my lunch.  I started by making a double batch of brown rice.  I seasoned it well so that it had tons of flavor and could be exciting enough as a side.  Then I cut up and browned a batch of boneless chicken thighs into bite size pieces.  Vegetables and rice is no grand new idea but added fresh produce to the dish after the 2nd day proved to really perk it all up.  On this day I added steamed broccoli spears and fresh tomato to the existing mushroom, snow peas and onions.  Chili oil, a little sesame oil and we're back in business.  Then for dinner I fried up an egg before adding the rice to a sizzling hot wok.