Dear Foodies:  What is your favorite quote?  And why?  Create a post and archive it to “Favorite Quotes”.

Here’s one of mine:   

“There is one thing I’ve learned, folks, and this is absolutely key–it’s not the thing you fling, it’s the fling itself.”  Chris-in-the-Morning, KBHR, Cicely, Alaska

When Chris, the artist/disk jockey, in the 1990 television show Northern Exposure, decided to build a giant catapault to fling a cow, he had no idea until his friend, Ed Chigliak, told him that Monty Python had already flung a cow in The Holy Grail.   At first despondent that his “transitory cow-fling thing” already had been accomplished, he immediately became inspired when he saw the rubble of Maggie’s burned down house.  He took her damaged piano, filled it with all sorts of discarded flotsam and jetsam from the Cicely townsfolk, and then utters the words above just before he launches the piano to its ulitmate destruction.

The point?  For me I constantly struggle between the product and the process.  I know this is not for everyone, but for me, the process IS as important as the finished process.  There is healing in the act of creating something, every bit as much as in the satisfaction of enjoying the finished piece. 

Now, I need to find something to fling. 

Lori Gloyd (c) 2007