Rise On Marzipan Comments

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Here is what your poem makes me think of...Mother Nature wove this craving for sugar into our motivational structure. Our sensorium has built-in bells and whistles that announce when we are being rewarded. Sugar is one of the instantly recognizable rewards. It can be a carrot, but it can also be a stick. I watch my grandson scamming and angling for sugar every day, as soon as he comes home from kindergarten. I worry how that will affect his value orientation as he matures, but maybe that is just an old person's sour grapes, because my body cannot handle as much sugar now. I worry about the value orientation of the world economy when I think about falling sugar prices. I think about how sugar producing regions are played off against each other, with poor workers at the bottom of the economic and hedonic pyramid. I believe the enchanted loom of our senses also incorporates stardust and pollen. But it is undeniable that we resort to metaphors of sweetness to speak of visionary moments.