Each contemplative practice in this course so far has been the part of the lesson that I look forward to the most. It\u2019s a way for me to digest the information from the week, and put it into perspective in regards to my own thoughts and feelings. While each contemplative practice has forced me to think critically about each issue, this week\u2019s practice about hunger resonated with me the most.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been hungry before, I\u2019m even hungry right now. But I\u2019ve never experienced hunger. <\/em>I\u2019ve never had to wonder when my next meal would be, I\u2019ve never had to go to bed hungry, and although it\u2019s hard to admit, I\u2019ve probably been overly full more times than I\u2019ve been underfed. The fact that I can make these statements and be so privileged, while people on the other side of the planet are dying of starvation is shocking to me. How can we live in America and have such an abundance and surplus of food and not be shipping it to Africa? These were my thoughts during the contemplative practice, and then this week\u2019s lecture and readings put it into perspective for me. There are more systemic consequences that meet the eye when trying to solve the world wide issue of hunger, and although we wish we could just ship over food and fix the problem overnight, it isn\u2019t that easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Each contemplative practice in this course so far has been the part of the lesson that I look forward to the most. It\u2019s a way for me to digest the information from the week, and put it into perspective in regards to my own thoughts and feelings. While each contemplative practice has forced me to think critically about each issue,… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}