{"id":533,"date":"2011-02-04T17:35:30","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T01:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrenleecohen.com\/?p=533"},"modified":"2011-02-04T17:39:28","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T01:39:28","slug":"i-am-the-bread-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/i-am-the-bread-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"I am the bread of life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yes, I love to make bread.
\nI love to combine flour, water, salt and leaven.<\/p>\n

I love the alchemy of how earthly substance combines with water; of how air is created by the leavening culture and how at last fire completes the transformation from four simple ingredients into whole loaves.<\/p>\n

These are the staff of life.
\nI like the feel of the dough as I kneed it with my hands, how when I push it, it pushes back against me.<\/p>\n

My life meets its life.
\nWe shape one another.<\/p>\n

But how, I wonder, am I the bread of life?
\nIn what ways do I nurture the life in myself and in others?<\/p>\n

Perhaps it is in those special meetings in which I knead the being of another and equally allow her to knead the essence of me.
\nI meet you.
\nYou meet me.
\nLife!<\/p>\n

There is a Japanese saying:
\nFriends eat together from the same bowl.<\/p>\n

Let us then companions be.
\nLet us eat from the same loaf.
\nKneading, forming, baking community.<\/p>\n

Bake bread. Break it and share it out.<\/p>\n

~Warren Lee Cohen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, I love to make bread. I love to combine flour, water, salt and leaven. I love the alchemy of how earthly substance combines with water; of how air is created by the leavening culture and how at last fire completes the transformation from four simple ingredients into whole loaves. These are the staff of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,13,32,3],"tags":[18,34,240,239,242,35,66,246,78,57,75,110,25,40,65,24,247,38,94,107],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-bread","category-bread-oven","category-education","category-workshops","tag-advice","tag-art-of-bread","tag-baking-bread-with-children","tag-bread","tag-bread-oven","tag-community-building","tag-consciousness","tag-education","tag-emerson-college","tag-england","tag-flour","tag-freedom","tag-inner-development","tag-natural-yeast","tag-nutrition","tag-participatory","tag-poetry","tag-sourdough","tag-spirit","tag-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}