For the record, I'm doing this whole cleanse thing for a variety of reasons:

1. Wisdom. What is fasting, what is the body, what are our needs? Are we more animal, or more something else, something greater? Why did Jesus fast for 40 days in the desert?

2. Solidarity. People all over the world, including many in this rich insane nation of our own, don't have enough to eat. Daily. What's that like? To be regularly, simply, hungry?

3. Health. I've wanted to cleanse my body of accumulated detritus, toxins, and other unneeded odd stuff for quite some time -- since getting back from nine months in Peru, at least.

4. Remembrance. I was sick for six months in 1998, and ever since that fateful psychosomatic time, I've done some kind of remembrance of that suffering through giving up foods at some time during the month of January -- partly to remember and partly to deepen my current gratitude for health. So, this is the biggest remembrance I've ever done. Sanitas aegrotatioque reminiscor.

5. Friendship. To do something in support, something while being supported. We two exlaxers are doing this together.

6. Curiosity. What is cleansing, anyway? Can I do it? Can I not eat, not masticate, not digest, not even touch tooth to substance for days upon days?

--tony

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