The Supper of the Lamb

 After completing the reading from Robert Farrar Capon's The Supper of the Lamb, I saw it kind of as a wake up call regarding how little I actually "see" the things that I interacr with on a day to day basis. In this work, Capon's central exercise is alot less about cooking, such as spending an entire hour with one singlular onion, but more about what he calls to be the "work of man." This concept of the "work of man" means to look at the world with enough love in order to see it as it actually is in its true, raw form, rather than seeing it as a simple "diagram."

  On the same now, I was struck by Capon's critique of how we are able to replace reality with so many abstractions. Some examples that he uses to potray this is a calorie, and in this example he calls it a "conceit" or a "measurment of nothing." He calls it this because we cannot actually see nor taste a calorie as it lays within a piece of noodle or bread. When we as individuals begin focusing on numbers, such as calories, we stop seeing what is actually in front of us,which is the food. We then begin to swap out the real thin for an invisible number or calculation. Looking at how Capon puts this into perspective, he says "one real thing is closer to God than all the diagrams in the worl."

   Now, looking at this concept of "Ferial" vs. "Festal" living, it also reminds me of something that I ahve been thinking about outside of this reading. In context, Ferial is the frugal, and considered to be the "poor man's invention" where some slight materials are then made into something more considerable. Howver, Festal is the celebration of hte ordinary and making it into someting more extraordinary. An example of this would be how break is able to become a beautifully created pastry trhoguh care. This makes me question, and realize how I tend to rush myself through the "ferial" parts of my day to day life, adn treating them as obstacles that I need to surpass, rather than treating them as opportunities for attention.