Food

Food has rapidly become very stressful. We have limited our contact with the city, both by choice to minimize contact with the virus, but also by national decree - the grocery stores are only open limited hours with a maximum of 50 people inside at a time (the others packed into squished lines outside (!)), only a single shopper permitted per household, and no kids allowed. So suddenly what to make for dinner becomes a pretty charged debate. We have a triage approach to each meal, what must be eaten first, what will go bad quickest. We've found ourselves snapping at the kids for choosing the wrong snack. Just opening the fridge feels fraught and stressful. I think everyone is feeling this to some degree. In the midst of all of it, though, some wonderful initiatives have emerged. There are new whatsapp chats in our community to buy and deliver groceries for our older residents. Gregg and Yackse organized a weekly fruit and vegetable run to the large wholesale market for the whole town. Everyone is stepping up and helping each other out, which is really wonderful to see. And this same pattern, the repeated, spontaneous emergence of human goodness, seems to be happening around the world....