http://www.mirembekawomera.com/blog/2008/04/23/freedoms-two-sides/ Delicious Peace Coffee News Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:22:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 http://www.mirembekawomera.com/blog/2008/04/23/freedoms-two-sides/#comment-1350 Elaine Waxman Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:02:17 +0000 http://www.mirembekawomera.com/blog/2008/04/23/freedoms-two-sides/#comment-1350 Thanks for your thoughtful reflection on how our unlimited "choices" in commerce are actually both constraining and diminishing to both consumer and producer. It is certainly counterintuitive in our culture to think of limiting our choices as an exercise in freedom but indeed, it can lead to reclaiming some of our sense of agency. Although we sometimes count the days until Passover is done so we can go back to our "regular" diet, we'd all be well served to take the sense of mindfulness around the act of eating into the rest of the spiritual year. And especially to remember that making choices in our daily lives without "kavanah" or intention can contribute to the enslavement of others. It would be an interesting haggadah that asked us to experience that type of slavery as if it were our own. Thanks for your thoughtful reflection on how our unlimited “choices” in commerce are actually both constraining and diminishing to both consumer and producer. It is certainly counterintuitive in our culture to think of limiting our choices as an exercise in freedom but indeed, it can lead to reclaiming some of our sense of agency. Although we sometimes count the days until Passover is done so we can go back to our “regular” diet, we’d all be well served to take the sense of mindfulness around the act of eating into the rest of the spiritual year. And especially to remember that making choices in our daily lives without “kavanah” or intention can contribute to the enslavement of others. It would be an interesting haggadah that asked us to experience that type of slavery as if it were our own.

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