Last Days WWOOFing

It’s the feel of the ordinary things I’ll remember most about this summer.  I’ll remember tonight.  Claire was packing her bag and listening to a podcast about knitting that was really about abortion.  I never catch her doing just one thing.  The glow of the kitchen lights was odd on her hair - the lopsided ponytail, the stray baby-hairs curling out of control in the humidity. ...
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Eating

More and more I’m thinking about food, not just as something that ends up on my plate but as a part of an intricate - and precarious - system.  We know about agribusiness; we know about the factory farms.  We know that, among other things, these farms are fundamentally unsustainable.  If there was no mental divorce between what we eat and how its made, we would be too queasy to...
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