23 August 2017, Wednesday

Didn’t want to walk to an open supermarket in the thunderstorm (although it wasn’t at all raining while I was out), so I bought discount items at DR (01:48) that were at best only theoretically appropriate for my diet: a package of deluxe mixed nuts that had too many cashews, and frozen chicken wings in the only available flavor, honey barbecue. The purportedly low‐carbohydrate chocolate/peanut butter meal bars were not coming up at the register at the fifty‐percent discount so a manager’s (or longer‐standing worker’s) intervention was necessary. There was a familiar‐looking, vaguely hefty but attractive S. Asian worker there as well who was friendly and greeted me.

Chicken salad, sliced packaged chicken, Münster cheese, blackberries, strawberries and discount sour cream from FD.

No photographs taken all day.

“There is no danger in interpreting the symbols of a religious system and calling them metaphors instead of facts. What that does is to turn them into messages for your own inward experience and life. The system suddenly becomes a personal experience.”

—Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth, by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers, New York: Doubleday, 1988, 218.