Time to ponder and reflect:Don't waste your food.Don't be fussy about food. Eat only when you are hungry; stop eating when you are full. Relish every spoonful of your food, each grain of your rice.
I lifted a spoonful of rice and ate it. I thought about what a wonderful thing it is to eat rice. First you let the smell drift up in lazy spirals, sweet and elusive; then you look at the color of it, softer and whiter than the surrounding steam. Carefully you put a spoonful of it in your mouth, and feel each grain separate on your tongue, firm and warm. Then you taste it – the rich yet delicate sweetness of it. How different it was from that gritty red rice we’d been rationed to, the last three years, gruel so bland and watery that it slipped right down your throat before you could even taste it. No, this was real rice, whole moist grains I could chew and savor.
from The Clay Marble (p.24)
I sat back, leaning against the tree, and breathed a deep sigh of contentment. There was a morsel of meat left on my plate, which I had been saving till last. Slowly I spooned it up and swallowed it. How could anything be better than this?
from The Clay Marble (p.31)
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