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http://www.yeovalleyorganic.co.uk/

You've got a much better selection of artisanal butter in Europe than we do.  Here it's pretty much "anonymous mass production" or Kerrygold, imported at great cost.

brynn:

Throw that in a skillet (or perhaps an oven, for the prime rib roast) and you've got dinner.  Yum!

JS

I think we're quite lucky in the UK - I read about Kerrygold being the darling of paleo butter and actually struggled to find it here. We do have all manner of pastured butter in our supermarkets. I have found Kerrygold now, and it is a nice butter. Being a Yorkshire lad (that's a county in the UK, practically a country, certainly a State ... in mind), Yorkshire butter fits the bill and tends to be a little creamier. I buy that, Kerrygold and Isigny from northern France - now, that is a nice butter! Have a read when Wiki is unblacked: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beurre_d'Isigny

It's absolutely true that eating conventional grain-based food makes us feel cranky and sluggish.  I realize now that I felt like that my entire life -- I just defined it as "normal".

You'll continue to experience positive changes over time.  I'm still undergoing mental and physical transformation from eating like a predator, and it's been nearly a year since I fully committed.

JS

Enjoy the rest of TGC ... there's a quickening of pace in the second half of the book, but do and don't get carried away with the pace. Go with it, get carried along, but savour each second.

This transition into winter has been hard on me, to make the right choice instead of the easy one, in terms of what I'm putting in my body.  I also moved at the end of October (unfortunately, I realized I moved away from my favorite deli) and that's where I really broke my stride, and went for what was easy and cheap, instead of...well, what was right.  A week of eating like I used to eat, and oh.my.god.  I felt horribly "normal" again...that tired, sluggish feeling that no amount of coffee, or even a nice long walk, could disperse the fog from my body and head.  

If anything, it was a truly remarkable learning experience.  You eat like this; you feel alive.  You eat this stuff; you don't want to get out of bed.  That's not living, or being productive, or healthy!  I truly understand now:

"This is what being human is SUPPOSED to feel like."  Feeling human is much more enjoyable.

On this side of Thanksgiving (which was delicious, and I hope everyone had a great feast), I just need to breathe, take a step back and be more concious of what I'm buying and cooking and eating.  

Oh!  Also!  I'm about halfway through the Credo and I couldn't feel more inspired from that, if nothing else.  Excited to finish it, and venture into some discussions about that as well.  Thank you again, J.  I'm sorry about all that hassle.  I keep having a nagging feeling that two books are going to just show up randomly...then I'd have three copies!  Oof.  

Until next time!

Brynn

RE to the PS:  Every so often there were things that she would cover that he wouldn't understand, that even the barest scrape of an Animal Person KNOWS.  It's just Things We Know.  It was strange how he couldn't See IT.  IT.  Everything.  From the concept she was talking about, to the ones she hadn't yet covered.  It's like he was standing at a presipice, and instead of seeing it for what it was, he would simply say "it's too dark"  of COURSE it's dark! 

Sometimes the things I say don't make any sense either...

I'm going to be actually building my Gnoll after I shed some weight.  The less fur I have to buy, the happier I will be.  At the moment, I need roughly six yards to make a full suit. (That's for someone 5'2" and size 44 pants)  I already know the colors I'm using, I just need to design the fur pattern, and find a proper fur for the face.  The problem with the one I'm going to use is that it's a fantastic and warm tan long, but once you shave it down it turns solid brown.  That'll look good in some spots, but not the look for the face that I want.  Or, I may just ask someone who's done Gnolls before to do it.  Course, that can get expensive...  Over twelve hundred for the artist I want...and I don't have a job at the moment!  Ha!

To the drawing board, I suppose.  I've also got an anthro hyena in the works.  Though, she's already well designed.

Welcome back. The ending is bittersweet, is it not?  We have a monumental task ahead of us…but there is hope as long as we do not abandon it.

Writing TGC was an incredibly intense experience.  I cried like a baby in several places, and Gryka caused me more than one spit-take with her blunt responses.  I'm glad I was able to communicate some of that to you.

Welcome home.

JS

PS: "Occassionally wondering how stupid the human could be that he couldn't have SEEN IT before she told him."  Seen what?

Also, I'll be interested to see what your gnoll looks like…though I haven't looked very hard, I admit I haven't been impressed by anything I've seen so far.

Occassionally wondering how stupid the human could be that he couldn't have SEEN IT before she told him.

It now lives with me in my bag...  I hear a rumour about T-shirts? 

I've got a Gnoll in the works.  And I had to laugh about Aiden's inability to find a chest height Gnoll terrifying.  Because, that's what I'll be!  I'm only 5'2" but I've been told that I'm imposing and terrifying in my own right.  Even at my height and 250 lbs!  WTF?

I kind of want to do haouka because there's simply not enough scary where I would be costuming.

I already have two suits, a porcupine, and a bat, so, we'll see!