Question Answered and a Book

One of my friends saw my last post for a meatless beef broth and asked, why bother when you can get real beef broth right out of a can.  Short answer and big question - I'm a vegetarian and, have you read the ingredients list on a can of beef broth lately?  Besides sugar there's generally a list of polysyllabic words that sound like chemicals.  I like to know what I'm putting into my body.  It's all about choices.

A book I recently read is called "Keeper' by Andrea Gillies.  It's subtitle is "One House, Three Generations, and s Journey into Alzheimer's."  The focus of the book is on the author and her mother-in-law, Nancy, who's journey into the depths of Alzheimer's is documented.  The impact of that journey on the family is also honestly glimpsed. 

Keeper won the 2009 Wellcome Trust Book Prize, the United Kingdom's preeminent popular science writing award and the 2010 Orwell Prize. 

While the book was compelling and gave numerous reasons to fear Alzheimer's and aging, I felt that its emphasis on the loss of self and loss in general gave the book an oppressive tone.  Look around the room where you're sitting right now and notice everything that's the color blue.  Now close your eyes and tell me everything in the room that's the color yellow.  It's hard to focus on the yellow when you're looking only for the blue.

Quote by actor, Tony Curtis, who died this week at age 85.  "Service to others is the rent we pay for our time on this planet."  Wonderfully said.