Alright so I admit it — I still am not completely sure of the yin/yang thing. So meat is super yang but it makes you more yin? Or is that visa versa? And sugar is full of yin energy and it makes you really yin and jittery? It’s clear I need a breakdown.
Traditional yin/yang classification teaches that universal energy comes from the universe down to the earth and is contracting and downward, thus, yang. It teaches that earth energy is flowing from earth toward the heavens and is expanding and upward, thus, yin. Generally plants are more yin and animals are more yang — but each individual food/plant/animal/person contains elements of both. However, we want to be slightly more yang for optimal health. Thus, the balancing act that is macrobiotics.
Nicole and I just outran a blizzard! We’re fresh off a steak dinner, driving through rural Minnesota on the way to rural Wisconsin. Our holidays have us roadtrippin’ up from Texas and all across the Midwest. There’s a good chance we’ll clock in a little over 5,000 miles by the time we get back. We just left the farm and you’re getting this from the road…. a snippet of conversation from us as soon as we got into the car as we pulled away from the farm.
All of my coworkers think me very strange because by the end of the week, I have amassed quite the collection of bottles of 
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