The Chocolate Cake Sutra
Ingredients for a Sweet Life
Chapter One
The First Ingredient: Joy
Those who perform good deeds
do not experience remorse and woe.
Instead
they are happy now
and they are happy later—
in this world
and the next
they know bliss.
—The Buddha
I'm in Seattle for two weeks looking for a place to live. Suddenly fried clam necks are in all my dreams. Therapist friends would have a field day with this. I've had fried clam strips at least five times since I've been here, a personal record. It has been a long time since I've had access to so much hot, greasy, salty nuttiness in one bite. Better than toffee, closing in on chocolate cake.
Right now I'm sitting at a tiny corner table in a family-owned café close to the locks—they sell only fried fish, chicken, chips, and drinks. A gallon-sized tip jar on the counter has a sign, Karma Jar, on it. The jar is almost full, so their karma must be pretty good.
Halfway through more fried clams than I've ever ... read full excerpt from: Chocolate Cake Sutra, The ebook
