40 days and 40 nights — DAY 40!!!!

Sep 17, 2010 | Notes On The Journey

6:52pm Wow! I did it. Sunset in 8 minutes from now. 40 days of kitchari and I’ve lived to tell about it. I will fast for Yom Kippur, beginning tonight at sunset, as I’d planned from Day 1. My counting error which made today be the last day, rather than...

40 days and 40 nights — Day 38

Sep 15, 2010 | Notes On The Journey

7:47am Including today, three more days. As of today, I’ve decided to have a meal of curried vegetables with lamb to break my fast on Yom Kippur and then, starting Sunday, begin 10 more days eating kitchari. These 10 days are to give me time to live outside the...

40 days and 40 nights — Day 34

Sep 11, 2010 | Notes On The Journey

7:44pm As importantly as today being Day 34 of my kitchari* fast is that it’s September 11th. Endings and beginnings. On this day, commemorating a terror act that slaughtered thousands, brought down an icon of corporate America, and continues — 9 years later —...

40 days and 40 nights — Day 32

Sep 9, 2010 | Notes On The Journey

3:59pm What a day. “Emotional rollar-coaster” doesn’t actually cover it. I mean I’m fine, but as I move through the day I’m hit with wave upon wave of intense emotion. Today is Rosh HaShanah. I am acutely aware that today is a High Holy...

40 days and 40 nights — Day 30

Sep 8, 2010 | Notes On The Journey

8:47pm I’ve never been very good with numbers, with counting, with arithmetic. Geometry was the only mathematical thing that I excelled at and I’m sure it’s because it was about pictures. What calls this to mind? Well, for the past several days...

40 days and 40 nights — Day 28

Sep 5, 2010 | Notes On The Journey

10:02am I have been up since early, in a bit of a state over this being Day 28. Only 12 days left. I put up a fresh batch of kitchari, noticing how much I have come to love the preparation, the decisions I make from one batch to the next — a little more of this, less...