Interesting read but, all in all, there is no inherent purpose to life, human or otherwise, except to simply live until you cannot or will not. Certainly, one can decide to live for the sake of reproduction or for what one defines as "happiness" or for the sake of anything else, however, your choice will not be the choice of all others. The only fact is, you have life. The answer to what you OUGHT to do with it isn't supplied nor built into that fact. What you OUGHT to do must be discovered ... even if part of that discovery is listening to what others think you OUGHT to do. No single answer will ever apply to all.

Simple and vivid. I feel like I've been there right along with you. Poetry need not be profound or complex, just communicate simple experience and how it makes us feel. There ought to be far more poetry and poets.

Cool. My wife will really appreciate this book. She's the one who works everyday around here and easily gets stuck in a lunchtime rut ... if she eats lunch at all. I think she gets bored with her options. Now there are many more. Thanks!

Heard it before but it hasn't lost its impact. It's all too easy to feel this guy's shaking embarassment. You have to wonder how many others out there would have made the same mistake.

Thanks for the wonderful cookbook. It's high time Cuban culture, particularly Cuban cuisine be honored in this way.