Food for Thought Idea Forum & Potluck is a place to get inspired and share your mind. Instead of everyone reading the same book, everyone responds to the same topic through whatever media that resonates with them, like a backwards book club.

Share a reading from a book or talk about an experience (a memory, album, play, or movie) to connect with the month's topic. Or bring something new (perform a poem, sing a song, read some prose). Also: bring some food to share!

March's topic is CONVICTION

DEFINITION
noun
1 a formal declaration that someone is guilty of a criminal offense, made by the verdict of a jury or the decision of a judge in a court of law: she had a previous conviction for a similar offense.
2 a firmly held belief or opinion: his conviction that the death was no accident | she takes pride in stating her political convictions.
- the quality of showing that one is firmly convinced of what one believes or says: his voice lacked conviction.

ORIGIN
late Middle English: from Latin convictio(n-), from the verb convincere (see convince) .