Can you TASTE the TRUTH?

Can you TASTE truth? Can you SMELL truth? When listening to music, can you HEAR music that is true...or false?

In a book I'm writing on truth, I'm exploring these and more questions. MONDAY night at Quere Verum (8pm) I'll be discussing the ways that we might discern truth with our senses.

Philosophical views of truth in the last 300 years have often limited truth to something that we only say about sentences or statements or propositions. But can THINGS be true? Can PEOPLE be true? How do we live out truth? Does truth live in my BRAIN or in the rest of my BODY?

I'd like to know what you think--come join in a conversation about what is truth and how we encounter and discern it.

FOOD MEET 2010

Wednesday night was our first ever Food Meet at GFU. And what a lot of fun we had. We viewed clips from the excellent film FOOD, INC. and heard from local farmers and from local businesses and organizations--all doing great things to help us stay connected with our food by eating good, delicious, local food.

We had over 23 booths with everything from goat cheese, truffle oil and fair trade chocolate cupcakes to activities such as sticking your hand in soil, planting native flowers, getting jars with sprout seeds in them. There were books, coffee, many different colored eggs, more food samples and fun, easy ideas for how we can eat more ethically, locally, healthily--all while eating more deliciously.

There were over 130 people present and everyone I talked to spoke of the great energy in the room. I was inspired by it myself, and am looking forward to an even bigger event where we'll dig into these same things more deeply on April 22, 2010.

If you missed the first ever FOOD MEET, you can:
a) talk to others who went or ask me about it
b) visit the website, where shortly, we'll have a list of many good places to get produce, eggs, meat, honey, cheese, truffle oil, and much more from good, local sources.
c) come to the next Food Meet on April 22, 2010.
d) watch Food, Inc. yourself--find it at Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, or NetFlix, or borrow my copy.
e) read Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma which was the inspiration for the film.