I have written previously (perhaps approaching cliche by now; you decide) about having two blogs and wanting to have one — not by jettisoning one by having them merge organically. Here's another post that fits in both places — about sustainable living (no link; you're reading it) and food issues, at fisherblue.com/blog; in fact, I starting writing this at the other one.

As I found myself drawn to writing about sustainability, it was mostly in terms of energy efficiency, global climate change, and the like — this is probably the most common perception for that word. I write about food issues, particularly about food addiction — because of my experience going back to early childhood and continuing, in recovery, to this day.

But what is more sustaining than food? It's right there on the top shelf, along with clothing and shelter.

The junctures of food and sustainability has been plumbed fabulously by Michael Pollan. In "Omnivore's Dilemma," especially, he talks about how most people have lost the connection between food and nature, both in how so many of us think food comes from a store, not a farmer, and how the endless processing of food leads to the same sort of disconnect, that food comes from a lab, not a field.

I am still very much a part of that world, but I'm breaking free. One way is to grow some of my own food. With so many undeveloped and/or atrophied ties to the natural world now (re)awakening, I don't know where it will end. 

I keep thinking I should draw all those ties together, but I'm finding them so varied that they're hard to bundle. I'll work on that.