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What is Taste the Food?

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Taste the Food is a gathering place for stories about moments, adventures, and experiences. 

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Taste the Food is a new twist on an old idea:

  • When did you stop and smell the roses?

  • What was your Eureka! moment?

  • When did you wake up and smell the coffee?

 

Taste the Food is your opportunity to share a story.  On Facebook, we share in one sentence bursts that emphasize nouns - friends, family, places, cats, dogs, and food.

 

If our Facebook page is an outline of our life, Taste the Food is our theme.  Pick a piece of your outline and:

  • Tell how it happened

  • Tell what you learned

  • Tell how you feel. 

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Tell it in a brief story.  You will be amazed what you can say in 272 words. 

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Why Taste the Food?

"Can I Taste the food?" is a question my mother asked me before she passed - see My Story.   This question sent me on a quest:

 

  • Can I Taste the Food? 

  • When do I Taste the Food? 

  • Share when I Taste the Food?

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Moments, adventures, and experiences should be shared before they are forgotten.  Make a memory a shared story.

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Share when you Taste the Food in 272 words. 

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Abraham Lincoln delivered The Gettysburg Address in 272 words.  If Lincoln can redefine the United States in 272 words, we can share a story in 272. 

 

Try it here.  Tell us when you Taste the Food.

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My life pivoted when my 90-year old mother (Moo) suffered a stroke.  A stroke that left her unable to swallow.  The time came to tell her she needed a feeding tube - I sat down next to her. 

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"Mom, you are unable to swallow and you need a feeding tube."

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He eyes looked straight into me, "Can I taste the food?"   

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Confused I managed, "What?"

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"Will I be able to taste the food?", her eyes still locked on me. 

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I looked away, down, and back to her, "No"

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"I don't want it," she said firmly. 

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I looked into the locked eyes, away, down, and back to her, "You will d-die."

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She shook her head, waved her hands, and looked out the window.  No.

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I was stunned - what courage.  In retrospect, I should not have surprised - we had already talked about her wishes at end of life.  I knew that was what she wanted. 

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Upon reflection, what a metaphor - Taste the Food!  Can I taste the food?  Do I taste the food?

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How often do I scarf down food without tasting it?  I forget everyday is an adventure and every moment is an experience.  I forget to look and listen.  And, I forget to share.  

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Tastethefood.net wants you to share your experience:

A phrase.

A glance 

A face.

A view

A smile 

A trip

Work

Play

Pain

Joy

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I am fortunate, as a Financial Advisor, I hear stories every day - stories of joy, sorrow, dreams, heartache.  Don't let them slip away - Savor and  Share.  Taste the Food. 

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Thank you,
Mark Stinson

April 1, 2017

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Live. Learn. Share.  Tell your story.  When did you Taste the Food?  

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Men go forth to wonder at the heights of  mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vast compass of the ocean, the courses of the stars, and they pass by themselves, without wondering.  - St. Augustine
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I love stories. We all have stories, we forget to tell them.  I hope you will share a story.
 
I am fortunate, as a Financial Advisor, I hear stories every day - stories of joy, sorrow, dreams, heartache.  Don't pass them by.  Wonder.  Taste the Food. 
 
Thank you,
Mark Stinson
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