A simple trick from the backyard astronomer: if you are having trouble seeing something, look slightly away from it. The most light-sensitive parts of our eyes (those we need to see dim objects) are on the edges of the region we normally use for focusing.

Eating animals has an invisible quality. Thinking about dogs, and their relationship to the animals we eat, is one way of looking askance and making something invisible visible. —Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer

I am on a 30-day pescatarian diet challenge! I say challenge because I come from a semi-paleo way of life and my body needs to adjust to this sudden absence of meat.

While I have no problem eating all the fish and vegetables in the world, I’ve come to realize that my food choices are largely determined by convenience (and sadly, our helper’s whim). This diet just made me more proactive in what I ingest, more conscious of what I do.

And that is always a good thing.