In the industrialized world, the risks we encounter with food are minimal and well defined, and we understand how to mitigate them. Except when something terrifying happens.
In the industrialized world, the risks we encounter with food are minimal and well defined, and we understand how to mitigate them. Except when something terrifying happens.
A lesson I learned in seminary was to mark milestones and meaningful moments with intentional ritual, so they do not blend into the background of everyday life and get lost in mundane rhythms. Moments such as menopause feel like a life threshold, and they should be celebrated.
In Florida, we celebrate the upside-down growing season, or at least upside-down compared to the norms of the northern U.S. and Europe.
A pile of overripe bananas helped me say a good goodbye to my job that unexpectedly ended earlier this month when my entire department was closed as part of a reduction in workforce.
When can compromise be life-giving?
Eating from a narrower range of ingredients which can be used for a variety of dishes reduces food waste.
It’s May. It’s graduation season, and it’s the time to celebrate academic achievement and see folks off to what’s new. This year I got to celebrate my youngest brother Isaac’s graduation from high school.
Ascension Day, celebrated forty days after Easter, remembers Christ ascending into heaven before his disciples. It can seem abstract compared to the drama of Easter or Pentecost. Yet gardening has made me wonder whether that hiddenness is part of its wisdom.
