I was up about five on Thursday, still dark and the full moon lighting up the street. I love to be up to see the day arrive while I drink my coffee.
I'm still getting good news of elections from all over the country, typically too local to make the national news, but significant. Like Chris's report on the Idaho school board election, which I passed on via Spoutible.
Quite a few school boards have tossed rightist book-banning Moms and rejected new similar candidates, replacing them with blue candidates.
Sheriffs, too, one local to here, Bucks county. Voters replaced the sheriff who had got into an agreement to assist ICE, with a new younger man who plans to rescind the agreement as soon as he takes office. A Democrat. In red, affluent, Bucks county. More and more news like this is coming in, a definite blue wave.
I wrote to Schumer and my two senators urging them to hold fast, never surrender, and I'm hoping they won't give in to the emotional blackmail of hunger and soaring health premiums -- as you read on Wednesday, this is hitting my family -- but force accountability. Election Day showed we're in fighting mode. Ooh, a pome! I'm doing my best to help on the hunger front.
And Misfits arrived. I messaged Haleem the driver warning him his usual entrance road is up for repairs, finally, and giving him a heads-up about another entrance to the development.
Chocolate chips and dried cranberries for granola to happen today, tuna for tuna melt, peanut butter to sub for tahini which I don't like. This works in sauces and hummus with the chickpeas you see there.
The garlic paste you saw recently is working well, anywhere garlic is needed. I'm making some good garlic bread -- garlic paste and butter toasted on whole wheat bread. I chunked that up to add to spinach and scallion salad. Some garlic roast potato dice. Maybe garlicky game hen. Hm.
I expect I'll use it, too, in the hummus I'm thinking about. Maybe I'll make crackers, using some yogurt, to go with.
Lunch Thursday was raw spinach torn up, with roasted potato dice, mushrooms and scallions with garlic paste, olive oil and feta cheese crumbles on top. Dessert was one of those apples, crisp, juicy, just right.
And I made granola, oats, walnuts, dried cranberries, chocolate chips
And as usual I'm reading a lot at once, just taking a look at Marc Freedman, How to Live Forever
It's about old people leaving a legacy of teaching, and encouraging younger people.
I think it's a good thing in itself, but I wonder if that legacy thing is more a male idea. What do you think? I don't think in terms of legacy, and I don't know how commonly women do.
I'm noticing in other books that nonfiction, other than science, from more than a couple of years ago, doesn't fit with our social reality. Quite a few assumptions don't work any more, in this age of fear and chaos.
So when I see a publication date a couple of years back I read with a bit more scepticism. So much has changed, not for the better. Our optimism has taken a big jolt.
But this one doesn't date
Out walking, I met a little black and white fluffy barky wagging puppy. That was a Good Thing.
Happy day everyone, anyway, for now let's never mind legacy, just enjoy today! Here's a nice picture, sez
A friend gave me the cat book. I've read the first story... pausing before embarking on next as it's like eating a box of chocs.... too many at once is too much. Similar in concept to 'the answer you are looking for is in the library ' idea.
ReplyDeleteI found there was too much repetition in the setup to each story. It read like ai, so I lost interest.
DeleteMisfits already. I'm sure you get two deliveries a week.
ReplyDeleteMy partner used to buy Aldi frozen garlic bread, and I never understood why. He once used a fresh French bread stick, cut it up and pasted the slices with butter with minced garlic mixed in and then put it in a hot over, and it was terrific, and so easy to do.
That sounds like great garlic bread -- for someone else to make!
DeleteEven my little right-wing Ohio town elected Democrats to our town council; such a nice change. And good for Bucks County! I grew up in Yardley; nice to see changes coming to the area.
ReplyDeleteYes, when this happens in places like Bucks County, it gives a person hope.
DeleteYou have sustenance for another week: strength to carry on the fight.
ReplyDeleteYes, good fuel by the box.
DeleteI haven't noticed a gender difference in terms of thinking about legacies. I'd say everyone I know thinks about it, in one way or another. Sometimes in terms of one's own children, but often in a wider view of one's place in the world.
ReplyDeleteI don't know any woman who has deliberately taken actions in order to propagate her own name. It's more about thinking about doing good for other people, in my experience.
DeleteMaybe the difference in our experience (which surprised me!) is just a different definition of the word "legacy" - I don't associate it with propagating one's name :)
DeleteI love seeing how the people are fighting back throughout the U.S. Listening to the news can be devastating day to day but there is hope!
ReplyDeleteWe've been active since the last election day, but the media have done a good job of ignoring our resistance. They couldn't ignore the election results.
DeleteOnwards and upwards - no sitting on laurels. Keeping up the impetus can be difficult after a celebration.
ReplyDeleteNot difficult when you're living this nightmare. I'd say inevitable.
DeleteGood sounding granola with chocolate chips! Fruit and nuts and grain and chocolate...food for the goddesses!
ReplyDeleteI like to eat it as a cereal with milk. Checks a lot of boxes.
DeleteInteresting question about legacy. I don’t think about a legacy. When I’m gone, I’m gone. I just hope I’ve made a difference in people’s lives while I’ve been here. I know many men who talk about their legacy. I don’t personally know any women
ReplyDeletewho have.
That's very much in tune with my feelings, too.
Delete"We'll Prescribe You A Cat" -- love that premise!
ReplyDeleteIt's appealing. Like the cartoon of the vet saying to the cat owner "She needs to stay overnight. Would you like a loaner?"
DeleteThe only thought I give to my legacy is I don't want my son to find a horrid mess. It's bad enough that I have an enormous amount of things he has no interest in. Much of the family legacy will die with me as I am the last to know who this belonged to or what the significance of this is. That's how I see legacy.
ReplyDeleteGood for Buck's county.
Yes, seeing legacy as tangible items that need to be dealt with is a familiar thought.
DeleteThe blue wave stories across the country are so uplifting.
ReplyDeleteI keep on seeing more good news, it's great.
DeleteI think women leave a different kind of legacy, a legacy of doing and how we live in the world. Children spend far more time with us than their fathers (in my day, OMG I'm officially old), and they see how we do things, cooking, cleaning, laundry, childcare. Mothers also pass on their mitochondrial DNA to their children, something men cannot do. Basically, women rock:)
ReplyDeleteA few years ago I did think about what I would leave behind and that's when I started making quilts.
A legacy by example, maybe. Your quilts were an inspired decision. Basically, women rock, yes!
DeleteThat was good news! I am very thankful people got out and voted. I hope we can keep the momentum going. Your food pantry sounds really good!
ReplyDeleteThe turnout was best in years. But we still need to encourage people to show up.
DeleteI was and am thrilled with the results of Tuesday. It gives me hope. I hope everyone can hang on, keep up the resistance as we move closer to the midterms. Yes people are going to start feeling, but like you I hope the Dems hold on. Gosh even Marjorie Taylor Green is saying the Republicans need to do something. Got my fingers and toes crossed. I sent 100 post cards to the PA campaign, specifically to encourage keeping the 3 supreme court justices and Yeah PA did! You do well with your meal planning.
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Congratulations on all the success in Pennsylvania! Especially the Supreme Court, and thank you for the post carding. I've done that -- tedious, but very effective. My hands aren't up to it now, so I'm grateful to the people doing it.
DeleteOhh your food looks wonderful
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I do like to eat well. And I don't mind taking a bit of time to cook to please myself!
DeleteI love the book title "We'll Prescribe you a Cat" Cats are great for mental and physical health and I love them! I love nature and animals, but I have had cats throughout my life. :)
ReplyDeleteIt seems as though you didn't find it absorbing. I recommended a book on one of my blog posts a while back, "All My Patients are Under the Bed" by Dr. Louis J. Camuti. I found it really absorbing, delightful and entertaining!
Thank you for sharing your good news, and your food pantry sounds great!
I should check the Camuti book, thank you. I had pets for fifty years but they don't fit into my current life, so I content myself with greeting the ones I see out and about. There's a local cat, clearly a well cared for pet, who's shown up a couple of times as if he'd like to move in, the way cats do when they fancy a second home.
DeleteA fabulous post. I'm thrilled that the Dems are taking positions away from the repubs. Looks like good reading. Your granola looks sooo good. Have a nice weekend.
ReplyDeleteGood news this week. I baked the granola on the top shelf this time and it worked much better than the middle shelf.
DeleteNot sure I can speak for all women. But to me legacy is leaving behind a wealth or practical wisdom and the knowledge that not matter what. I always loved them.
ReplyDeleteI honestly don’t think anything else matters.
I’ve been reading about the blue wave and my heart leapt with joy. Keep helping one another and I’m positive that all the MAGA morons will soon be in jail.
I think a lot of women do think this way. It's not about deliberately doing things to perpetuate their own name, as I've observed in men.
DeleteI certainly wish to see a lot of MAGA behind bars! A lot of countries have MAGA equivalents, too.
The Japanese seem very fond of books involving cats!
ReplyDeleteGreat to see the blues fighting back.
Blues have been fighting back for years. But from outside the country you maybe couldn't tell, because media ignored us. Now they have to acknowledge we're there and active.
DeleteIf everyone donated just a few things to food pantries on a regular basis they'd be a whole lot better off. Particularly now when so many are in need. Our local one just published their 'reverse advent' list for the month of November so the RC and I will be going shopping for everything later in the month. We always do multiples of all the canned goods they request. When we drop the supplies off we give them our receipt and then we get a tax deduction for that amount. It's a fun challenge to find all the items and they're always hugely grateful.
ReplyDeleteI don't have a high enough income to itemize, and I don't think our pantry does that for other than $ . Back when I used to send a check, they used to send me a letter of thanks until I encouraged them to save the effort.
DeleteAnd you're right -- people need food year round.
They just send us a tax receipt for the total dollar amount...as long as it's over $25.
DeleteGreat news! I really loved "Prescribe/Cat" -- that would be just the script I would want (except I already have my personal pet therapist/secret keeper and she's a mighty fine one! Most of the time.) Your granola looks fabulous.
ReplyDeleteI'd also like a cockatiel for a couple of weeks. Great company.
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