my chocobanana smoothie

here i am, at yali's, trying to work. i drink my smoothie in a plastic cup with a plastic straw. the chocolate comes from cocoa beans grown god-knows where, the bananas come from a banana tree elsewhere (probably mexico), the milk from cows in california perhaps. all comes together in this little drink of mine. the sun, the rain, the soil, manual labor, fuel for transportation, all do their small bit to feed me this drink. right here, right now.

i drink in silence and in gratitude. i wonder at the intimate connection i share with forces otherwise alien to me.