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As we continue to emerge from the pandemic, there’s a sense of relief and optimism that things will return to normal. Long-awaited family gatherings, birthday parties and graduation ceremonies are finally happening in person.
Sharing with the wildlife
Baby bear peeking on the deck
Thinking shall I enter? Oh what the heck!
There are goodies for me to eat
I’m always hungry and seeds are so sweet
So on the deck with my great paw
I’ll grab the feeder with my claw
Good manners can be found everywhere one may look for them
Food and nutrition are being looked at in an entirely new way. It is not so much a case of what’s in your food, but what has been done to it. Here’s a really simple example: In the ‘50s Crisco used to be vegetable lard. Now it is processed vegetable lard, partially hydrogenated (to increase mouth feel and flavor boost).
For the past several months I have shared a grant to do a play about Gwendolyn Reed, who was a migrant worker in the Connecticut tobacco fields and also an accomplished actor with the Charles Gilpin Players, a branch of the Federal Theater’s WPA Negro division. Gilpin was the original actor in Eugene O’Neill’s “Emperor Jones.” Gilpin indeed was
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
—Marie Curie
It’s far too early for any sensible observer of the political scene to be talking about presidential possibilities in the 2024 election, so let’s do it anyway.
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