Rice

I felt the need to share what I am eating for lunch today. Rice topped with beef, spinach, and mushrooms. Its not really a stir fry, but close. The important thing is the rice. This is not normal rice, oh no. It is a mixture of white rice, brown rice, wild rice and wheat berries. It is perhaps one of my favorite mixtures I've found so far. Although I really like Jasmine rice as well. There is something amazing about good rice, whether its the sticky white stuff you get at the Chinese restaurant, or the super healthy mixture you buy in the store.

The other part to all of this is the diversity. We don't really think about it but most of the 'staples' we think about as being important to a meal can be very diverse. Potatoes for instance naturally occure in several colors, ranging from purple/blue to tan/white, with red and yellow in the mix. And that's not even touching on sweet potatoes. Than there is rice, wild, white, brown, yellow... need I go on? Diversity is the best thing about food! About life for that matter. No only is it better to eat rather diverse things, but in growing diverse things one is more likely to have a successful garden every year, one thing or even two things might not produce well one year, but everything else does fine. Although I think green beans grow well no matter what.

So let me climb up on my soup box. If being diverse in food is good, growing and eating. Does it follow that being diverse in life is a good thing? People from different back grounds and histories seem to always disagree, and yet that mixture is what we need, we need diversity to better understand ourselves and our brothers and sisters. Alright I'll step down and go back to eating my rice, but it is a thought.