I don't think with my stomach.

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Although, my stomach is well established in my mind.  When a friend suggests he has been killing various varmint, from rattle snake to skunk to other such, while I gave him a break on the skunk, not sure I would go there, I was certainly curious about snake.  I have seen it canned, offered fried, and such, on television news broadcasts... at least long ago when I allowed television in, but even since I was a child.  I never had the opportunity, at a fair or festival, to try such.  Now, he did end up trying, but he boiled the meat.  As a lizard, really, I just can't think that flesh would be good to boil.  Still, that is as far as he would go.  I was glad to get that out of him.  Food.  Most people have never been hungry, not really.  Bored with food, perhaps, to the point of not eating.  But food is there, somewhere, easily, and all around us, in America, in these times.

Some aspect of me, both here and then, has gone without food.  Now, because I am ill and not always able to figure out food.  Sometimes I can be a bit testy with food.  If I fear... something.  Though too if illness makes eating impossible, which it does from time to time.  And yet, I hunger to try new foods.  Just to be more able if all falls down.  I do get a bit cross with those who won't even try something new.  Not horribly so, just frustrated.  I'll tease, but not push... not too much... to my way of thinking.

Recently, for example, I heard that cicadas are going to be in full bloom in the North East this summer.  I wondered if they were edible.  I got quite a negative vibe, was accused of being subjected to PETA mind control tricks.  So... I dug in.  The first gen invaders (some of my kin) ate cicadas, and many ethnicities do as well.  Now, while I would prefer beef, pork, and such, money is becoming so tight and prices are rising very fast.  And, if I end up on the road, I may have to simply take what I can get.  A season of cicadas, while even if quite tasty would become dull quickly.  And, yet, that would be free food to fill for winter.  Not much hunting, just a bit of stooping.

Oh, yes.  If life gets hard, you, too, had better buck up.  If you don't have coin, or your coin is good nowhere... being a nobody... best to learn how to live where and how you are.  Later... or... good night?  Yep, the latter.  Good night.