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midtown market, continued.....

I had never been to the Midtown Market before so this was a new experience for me. It was basically a farmers market, with vendors selling fresh produce and other goods. The group of people there were diverse in many different ways: culturally, economically, different ages too. It was a nice open vibrant environment- busy, animated, fresh, tasty.
In my literal interpretation of the prompt, the main exchange of energy is centered around the food and money. It takes physical energy to make money, it takes food to gain physical energy, it takes money to get food. It’s like a vicious cycle. This process is more apparent at the market because there’s not that middle man situation, your going directly to the source. But instead of the vendors needing money to get food, they need the food to get money. They create the initial source of energy, the food, which they exchange for money, which in turn creates more energy and more money. And so on. I’m thinking too much into this, I know. Thats just what the prompt made me think about.

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