I am rapt

Huge mountains of potatoes in Idaho vs lines of cars at a food bank in Texas.

https://twitter.com/chefjoseandres/status/1255671337667919872

Meanwhile, after a long wait of nearly a year, I just moved somewhere where all the stores have to be driven to and there are lawn sprinklers and a gardener comes on Fridays.

THAT IS APPROPRIATE SOMEHOW???

"Eating with Ghosts" is a category

that is a discovery

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/collections/145091/poetry-and-food

Do you work at night and get a current

There are sprinklers outside and the cat is using her tongue to drink out of the water bowl.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/tori-amos-believes-the-muses-can-help

ah (WWI)

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/Pandemic-Innovation

ah ~ CHOO ~ ooo

https://ramblings-of-a-red-head-girl.blogspot.com/2015/12/rilla-of-ingleside-my-cast.html

"I taught my cat about The Only Living Boy in New York."

https://twitter.com/SaraJBenincasa/status/1255040217901174785

More fancy ice cubes

♡♡♡♡♡

"Eng) 카페놀이 / 홈카페 영상모음 / Home cafe 🌹 - YouTube"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xjjOLCVkoMs

Fancy ice cubes forever ♡

"Eng) 홈카페 얼음만들기 / 카페놀이 / ice/ Home cafe - YouTube"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uud1buDdt_w

Find what you need...

I wonder if fancy ice cubes would be good for sore muscles.

It's learning time

 Back muscles, I will let you educate me

Looking forward

To waking up not aching

To better back health...how about that deep muscle that feels like it's your back but is technically an abdominal?

To more space to put things as drawers and shelves for small spaces arrive...but what if we just had fewer things...do I really need this vegetable spiralizer?

To fewer unpacking interruptions - sometimes it's outside forces, sometimes it's the body...

To having it all put away or given away (that's a challenge...who accepts donations now?)

Perishables inside

When you're reading and feel a single tear roll down your face

Because

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/13/baking-bread-in-lyon

New sounds

Louder birds.
Neighbors outdoors but not next to the wall. That's good.
Saw a raptor over a neighbor's tree yesterday!
More wind.
The freeways are louder or softer sometimes. It depends.
Trains...

Oranges, thyme, oregano

I collected those from a neighbor's driveway and a community garden when I lived in the old place. That was a different environment.

Sleeping lately

Involves waking up exhausted and achey.
Weird dreams too, like one about being on two Zoom meetings at once, or another about lying under mosquito netting upon which birds can perch.

A whirl

Moved during a pandemic.
The day goes by fast...
Still more to sort, organize, and unpack.

Brunch thoughts

She has got some interesting ones.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/magazine/closing-prune-restaurant-covid.html

Appreciation caravans for farmworkers!

!!!!!

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/appreciation-caravans-honor-california-s-essential-farmworkers-n1189806

Ah, nature

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Cheerfully

This is the most relaxed I have felt in a week and never underestimate how much time it might take to pack, clean, move...

How sensible

“'These taxpayers work in critical sectors of our economy, like agriculture, and contribute greatly to our country,' said Rep. Lou Correa (D-Calif.), who’s introduced a bill to extend eligibility to the excluded immigrants."

~ R. Rainey & K. Landergan

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/22/democratic-governors-mayors-stimulus-immigrants-201823

Who has the remedy for this?

"These U.S. citizens won’t get coronavirus stimulus checks — because their spouses are immigrants"

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-04-20/u-s-citizens-coronavirus-stimulus-checks-spouses-immigrants


"She works as a film producer and her small business has ground to a halt, forcing her and her husband to eat red beans and rice most nights, scramble to find small business loans and apply for medical assistance for their two children.

So the 44-year-old woman from the Midwest, who asked that her name not be used to protect her privacy, has had to bite her tongue as friends have celebrated the arrival of economic stimulus checks.

As a U.S. citizen whose children are also U.S. citizens, she is excluded from the government’s $2-trillion coronavirus financial relief package because she files her taxes jointly with her husband, a Mexican citizen from Guadalajara."

~ J. Jarvie

Focus on the good more

https://mobile.twitter.com/KTVU/status/1250505561084293123

It's a great time to care more

"Like many of the hundreds of thousands of hourly workers who supply the country with food and other necessities, they faced the choice of going without a paycheck or risking their health for jobs that typically pay less than $20 an hour."

~ A. Samaha and KJM Baker

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/albertsamaha/smithfield-foods-coronavirus-outbreak