Breakfast

The Manchester bombing prompted me to keep the Ramadan fast in a gesture of … sympathy?  solidarity? with the misery that drives both terrorism and the exodus from disintegrating cultures.  

Fasting did my heart, soul and body good and, I feel, helped me bear the rest of the mayhem as the month unfolded.  In fact I enjoyed it so much (the fast, not the mayhem) that I'm not planning on stopping anytime soon.  'Though I'll likely eat a little earlier than 10.00pm!  

Eating once a day focusses the mind wonderfully, makes preparing and eating food sacred acts once again.  

Eid mubarak!